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Sustainable Practices a Fort Collins Priority

Darin Atteberry In the city As an organization, the city of Fort Collins has made great strides toward becoming more sustainable, and we’re constantly looking for ways to improve. The city’s sustainability practices focus on good environmental stewardship as well as fiscal and social responsibility. At a practical level, these efforts will help reduce our Read more.


Students learn construction skills, sustainable building in hands-on training program

By Kathryn Dailey Loveland Reporter-Herald FORT COLLINS — Sometimes to build knowledge you have to tear some things down. And that’s just what the students in the National Center for Craftsmanship’s DeConstruct Training Program did. On a recent Tuesday, about 18 volunteers met in north Fort Collins to continue the process of hand dismantling an Read more.


Students Build by Taking Apart

Center teaches how to build homes with deconstruction project By Tim Keith timkeith@coloradoan.com  The National Center for Craftsmanship is giving Fort Collins area high school students a chance to learn how to build houses by taking them apart. The center began its first “deconstruct” project over the weekend on Lady Moon Drive south of Harmony Read more.


Building Up Skills as the Walls Come Down

April 5, 2008 – Project salvages materials while teaching youths. Download the article (PDF, 2.4 MB) published in The Loveland Reporter Herald by Marisa Beahm.


Deconstructing Stigmas

A new project by the National Center for Craftsmanship values working with your hands Article published in The Rocky Mountain Chronicle Feb 14. 2008 — By Michael Pool An important aspect is evaporating from today’s workforce: Over forty years of intense focus on college as the defining route to success has helped create a shortage Read more.


NCC Kicks-Off “Deconstruct” Project

Program provides for educational opportunities, fundraising. Fort Collins, Colo. — The National Center for Craftsmanship (NCC), a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation, enhancement and sustainability of quality craftspeople, kicks off its Deconstruct project this Friday and Saturday, February 15 and 16, in cooperation with a number of area organizations. Work starts at 9:00 a.m. Read more.


NCC on Fort Collins Channel 14


Channel 9 News visits NCC


National Center for Craftsmanship: Introducing a new generation to the trades

January 23, 2008 – Download the article (PDF, 2.3MB) published in the Berthoud Weekly Surveyor by Heidi Kerr-Schlaefer