{"id":16709,"date":"2013-05-10T14:14:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T00:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=16709"},"modified":"2020-10-27T14:09:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T00:09:39","slug":"46th-family-home-built-by-hawaii-cc-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/05\/10\/46th-family-home-built-by-hawaii-cc-students\/","title":{"rendered":"46th family home built by <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> students"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qIyB5OlDckw\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another brand new home has been designed and constructed by <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Community College<\/a> students in Hilo, <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>This is the 46th home built by the college since the school launched its <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.hawaii.edu\/modelhome\/\">Model Home Program<\/a> in 1965. The best part of the program, according to students and organizers: the annual ceremony where the house keys are officially turned over to the new homeowner. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Oh it felt great,&rdquo; said Fred Palea, the lucky Hawaiian Home Lands lessee right after he walked into his new home for the first time. &ldquo;I am really ecstatic and excited about this house and it feels warm, welcoming, and I think our family is really going to enjoy this house.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The three-bedroom, two-bath, 1,800-square-foot home includes a carport, solar water heating, a photovoltaic system, landscaping with native plants and an aquaponics garden. <\/p>\n<p>It is all thanks to the hard work of more than 70 <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> students from a wide range of programs offered at the college&#8212;drafting, carpentry, electrical, agriculture, welding and diesel mechanics. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have been working real hard for this day, waiting for it to come,&rdquo; said <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> carpentry student <strong>Jacob Ramos<\/strong>. &ldquo;We learn everything on this house, everything from foundation to finish.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We never get to meet the family until today,&rdquo; added <strong>Kiliona Young<\/strong>, a <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> agriculture student. &ldquo;But you know, they were just thoughts in our head. So all of the things we did, we were imagining this family, then today they get to turn it over and to be part of a big event like this, it was an honor.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>More than 2,700 students have participated in the Model Home Program over the years, gaining valuable on-the-job experience. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The contractors that hire them, they always come back and they always comment to us, you know the students and how confident they are,&rdquo; said <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> carpentry professor <strong>Gene Harada<\/strong>. &ldquo;And that&#8217;s what we are trying to do for them.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Creating affordable housing is a key component of the program, a partnership between <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Community College and the <a href=\"http:\/\/dhhl.hawaii.gov\/\">Department of Hawaiian Home Lands<\/a>. The home designed and constructed by the students in 2013 would have cost close to $300,000 to build, but thanks to the Model Home Program, it cost $186,000, according to Harada. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&#8217;s a very good win-win for us,&rdquo; said Darrell Young of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. &ldquo;We act as the developer and the students act as our construction labor and it gives them an opportunity to have a trade.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>And every year, it gives a local family an opportunity to turn the dream of owning a home into a reality. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I couldn&#8217;t dream that they could have done this but it&#8217;s excellent,&rdquo; said Palea. &ldquo;And I know we have good tradesmen that&#8217;s coming up in the future.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> students will begin work on home number 47 in the 2013 fall semester. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 70 <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> drafting, carpentry, electrical, agriculture, welding and diesel mechanics student participated in building the Model Home Program&#8217;s 46th home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[61,431],"class_list":["post-16709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-model-home-program","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16709"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129503,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16709\/revisions\/129503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}