Instructional Equipment: Division of Building, Structures and Site Services

Facilities Department · Sub-Level Shop · ext. 2120

Shop Building, constructed 2004, 22,000 square feet, six bays.

• Welding. Sixteen booths, each with a downdraft table and individual exhaust. Twelve Miller and Lincoln constant-current stick and TIG machines, acquired between 1998 and 2007, all in service. Four wire-feed units. One engine-driven welder on a trailer for field instruction. Booth exhaust was rebuilt in 2016 and is expected to serve another twenty years.
• Machine tools. Two Bridgeport-style vertical mills; three engine lathes, the oldest a South Bend acquired secondhand in 1979 and rebuilt twice, believed to be the oldest machine in continuous instructional use at the College; a horizontal band saw; a pedestal grinder bank; an ironworker; a 10-foot box and pan brake; a 4-foot shear. A replacement for the South Bend was purchased in 2019 and is in service. The South Bend remains the machine of record for instruction.
• Oxy-fuel and plasma. Six cutting stations, manifolded. One track burner. The plasma table is manual.
• Inspection. A full set of AWS fillet weld gauges, a bend tester, and a Charpy-style specimen notcher. Radiographic inspection is not performed on site; specimens are sent out.
• Fabrication for enclosure work. A 20-ton hydraulic press, a tube bender, and a rotary positioner rated to 1,500 pounds, acquired 2012 for the enclosure sequence.

Accessory Structure and code instruction. A full code library in print, replaced each cycle; two framing bays; a foundation demonstration pit; a soils sample set; frost-depth demonstration boards.

Mock Structure. Two-story wood frame, 2011, built with documented defects to instructional specification. Defect inventory maintained by the Division; assessment under RFQ since 2025.

Equipment for all divisions is listed at Instructional Equipment. The capital equipment request is published at Capital Equipment Request.