A few weeks ago, John Coghlan, the vocational building trades teachers, was trying to contract a new project to finish a customer’s basement. Since then, work on the basement has begun. According to Coghlan, the class has started framing the walls and had moved everything out of the basement.

The last time the vocational building trades class finished a basement 11 years ago. Coghlan said finishing a basement is a lot different from building an actual house. With a basement, there are more design ideas and room to be crazier than with the upper levels.

“It will be the biggest project of the semester. There’s enough to do until the end of the semester,” Coghlan said. The plan is for the class to work on the basement as much as they can until the end of the semester. Then, the customer will have to find a new contractor to finish the work. By Julie Kippenbrock <[email protected]>