{"id":6510,"date":"2012-05-18T08:54:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T18:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=6510"},"modified":"2021-04-15T11:02:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T21:02:20","slug":"model-home-program-builds-45th-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/05\/18\/model-home-program-builds-45th-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Model Home Program builds 45th home"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College students built a three-bedroom, two-bath home for a Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island family.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Under a partnership between the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands<\/a> and Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College<\/a>, a home built by students in the college’s Model Home Program<\/a> was dedicated this month in the Hawaiian homestead community of Keaukaha on Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island.<\/p>\n

Students in the program turned over the keys to a three-bedroom, two-bath home that they built for the department at a cost to the future homeowner of $199,935.<\/p>\n

Hawaiian Home Lands beneficiary Denice Keliʻikoa<\/span> is the prospective homeowner for the home. She has been on the Hawaiian homes waiting list since January 1986.<\/p>\n

A traditional Hawaiian ceremony called moku ka piko<\/em>, meaning the cutting of the umbilical cord, was performed to initiate the new home. The symbolic piko<\/em> was made of plant materials gathered by Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College students and woven together, with each plant possessing a specific reason for its use.<\/p>\n

This year’s model home comes equipped with a solar water heater system and a 4KW photovoltaic system. Many other green features were incorporated, including Energy Star qualified appliances, Energy Star metal roofing and radiant barrier sheathing, low VOC<\/abbr> paints, CFL<\/abbr> lighting and native plant landscaping.<\/p>\n

Watch a video of the dedication event covered by Big Island Video News<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College Model Home Program<\/h2>\n

The model home program provides vocational technical students an opportunity to obtain job skills through the construction of a house that is sold to a Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> family as an affordable home.<\/p>\n

This is the 45th home to be built under this program, which began in 1965. Since its inception, over 3,630 Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College drafting, carpentry, electrical, agriculture, welding and diesel students have participated in the program and gained on-the-job experience in home construction.<\/p>\n

The model home program was initiated as part of the instructional program at Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College. The Architectural, Engineering and CAD Technologies program designs the home and the Carpentry program carries out the basic construction.<\/p>\n

The Agriculture program designs and furnishes the minimal, low maintenance landscape and maintains the grounds until the home is accepted by the prospective owner.<\/p>\n

The Machine, Welding and Industrial Mechanics Technologies program provides equipment and labor to lift and install the pre-trusses. The Diesel Mechanics program does the grubbing, landscaping and mulching of the shrub and trees to be used for landscaping with assistance from the Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n

Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College also coordinates the painting, plumbing, and drywall subcontracting work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College students gain hands-on experience in home construction and provide a Native Hawaiian family with a new home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":6704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24],"tags":[19,61,431],"class_list":["post-6510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-uh-in-the-news","tag-construction","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-model-home-program","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t