You will begin to receive our Daily News updates. Add your contacts. Then Luchtenburg gestures in a broad way around him, pointing out his teaching area in Jones Hall. There are new city and county buildings that rose after the Flood of 2008, of course. For that matter, it's amazing all the infrastructure building going on with the new convention center, renovation of the new Doubletree hotel. “In Cedar Rapids, there is great work going on with the new main fire station on First Avenue. He points with pride to many private and University of Iowa buildings in Johnson County, including improvements to Kinnick Stadium and the Coralville Marriott Hotel and other River Landing district elements.
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The veteran professional mason-instructor's enthusiasm is evident and tangible as he points out the long list of projects his graduates are involved in around the Corridor.
“Then Kirkwood asked me to come teach full-time. Luchtenburg's substantial arms open wide to his last point. I got to be a teacher for the Bricklayers union 15 years ago, then got to know Kirkwood's program as an adjunct instructor.” “It was really worthwhile experience and I learned a lot from great foremen leading and teaching me. “I went on to Journeyman status and got opportunities to work on small residential as well as bigger commercial projects,” Luchtenburg recalls. After completing the industry-led bricklayers' school in Des Moines, he began work with Seedorf Masonry, one of the state's leading firms. He started as a “tender,” assisting union bricklayers the mid-1980s. Graduates also benefit from an overall demand for valued, hands-on skills to replace a wave of retiring workers from the Iowa and Midwest workforce.įor more than a decade, the Kirkwood Masonry Construction program has been taught by Joe Luchtenburg. Students learn skills that reach back to the pyramids of Egypt and great European cathedrals, while also reflecting the latest advancements in energy conservation and modern “smart buildings” technologies. Matt Fish is one of dozens of recent graduates from the Kirkwood Masonry Construction program, one of many construction-related programs in the college's Industrial Technologies department. “It's pretty satisfying to work on something that you know is going to be there a hundred years from now,” he said.
But one aspect of his new career has Fish thinking further ahead than wages or advancement. Fish is on a training and job growth track that should make him eligible for wages north of $1,000 a week in a few years. The Waterloo area grad has put the skills learned in his Masonry Construction classes to work as an apprentice mason since last summer. For Matt Fish, an investment of less than a year at Kirkwood Community College could pay off for decades to come.
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