Penn College Students Help Build Better Community
Published 04.12.2017
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Students from the School of Construction & Design Technologies' Concrete Construction class (BCT 238) traveled to Calvary Baptist Church this past week, completing a project begun last fall and attracting the attention of a passing television reporter. WBRE's Cody Butler stopped by the Washington Boulevard church, where instructor Glenn R. Luse's masonry students built two 20-foot-long brick and block planters at the main entrance. The planters were covered for winter and students of Harry W. Hintz Jr., instructor of construction technology, completed the project this season. "We fabricated and installed colored and polished concrete copings (caps) on top of their brickwork. This spring, the concrete class visited the site and made wood templates ... of the planters, returned to our lab and duplicated the precise shape of the planters (by) snapping chalk lines on the floor," said Hintz, an instructor of construction technology. "We then divided the shapes into manageable sections, fabricated forms, installed glass chips and reinforcing steel inside the forms, ordered a very specific concrete mix with color from Centre Concrete, placed and finished the concrete, removed the forms and polished the finished tops with four different wet-sand diamond grit pads, sealed the final pieces and installed them April 5 on top of the brickwork." Butler's report, which aired during evening newscasts, has been posted to PAhomepage.com.Photos by Luse and Hintz