
The HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) and Plumbing Technology program has been designed around a business/industry and national skill standards model. This program uses project-based methods and national performance standards to instruct and evaluate students in a variety of careers in the mechanical and building maintenance industries. Students receive a highly technical instructional program that prepares them for an entry-level technician position using their academic and technical knowledge and skills to install, service and maintain heating, air conditioning, and plumbing systems. Instruction includes daily theory and hands-on application of basic principles of heating, ventilating, air conditioning, refrigeration and plumbing systems; Installation of rough-in plumbing system in frame construction and installation on rough-in plumbing system in ground; installation of residential plumbing fixtures, garbage disposals, kitchen and bath faucets, hot water heaters, gas fuel piping; installation of residential cooling systems; installation of residential heating systems; installation of refrigeration systems; blueprint reading; drain cleaning methods; HVAC trouble shooting methods and component replacement. Instruction also includes the use of ICC 2009 code books for plumbing, mechanical, and fuel/flue gas piping, basic hand tools, power tools and power equipment, refrigerant recovery equipment, manifold gauges, digital multi-meters and testing equipment <b>...</b>
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