This certificate provides training in the nomenclature, methods, and materials necessary to build a complex wood framed building, including framing of floors, walls, ceilings, roofs, and stairways. This certificate includes required instruction in appropriate safety practices and procedures, basic blueprint reading, construction principles, procedures, tools, and equipment, basic carpentry nomenclature, and hands-on tool usage and framing skills. Additional elective coursework is required in one or more of the following areas: advanced framing, concrete, woodworking, finish carpentry, contractor license preparation, and drywall skills. Students completing this certificate program will be qualified for employment in companies both union and non-union where carpentry or woodworking skills are needed.