The Southern Illinois Construction Advancement Program and Southern Illinois Builders Association recently donated $17,000 to the Department of Construction at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Items that will be purchased with this donation include: concrete testing apparatus and testing certification materials; materials and methods laboratory equipment to productively use their laboratory space to provide students with hands-on experience constructing and testing building component assemblies; and support for creating a virtual learning studio which includes virtual vision and related technologies on the jobsite.
Photo Above: Left to Right: Bruce Holland, Chairman of SICAP; Donna Richter, Administrator of SICAP; and Dr. Chris Gordon, Associate Dean, School of Engineering, Associate Professor, Dept. of Construction at SIU Edwardsville
