Construction

Schools offering SHSM-Construction

• Barrie North C.I.
• Bradford D.H.S.
• Collingwood C.I.
• Innisdale S.S.
• ​Nantyr Shores S.S.
• Orillia S.S.
• Stayner C.I.

 
Additional Information

• Program Requirements

The SHSM–Construction enables students to build a foundation of sector-focused knowledge and skills before entering apprenticeship training, college, university, or an entry-level position in the workplace.

There are four categories of work in the construction industry. Each requires the use of different equipment and workers with a variety of skills. Depending on the career chosen, a graduate could work in any or all of these categories:

• new home building and renovation, including building, remodelling, or renovating houses and apartment buildings
• heavy industrial construction, including building industrial facilities such as cement, automotive, chemical, or power plants, refineries, and oil-sands installations
• institutional and commercial construction, including building commercial and institutional buildings and structures such as stadiums, schools, hospitals, grain elevators, and swimming pools
• civil engineering construction, including engineering projects such as highways, dams, water and sewer lines, power and communication lines, and bridges.

Did you know...
Ontario will need about 73,000 workers to replace those retiring, plus 84,000 in addition to fill new employment opportunities related to new construction over the 2011-2019 period.
~Careers in Construction, 2011

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