Architecture & Construction

Architecture and construction offer diverse career opportunities in construction management, architecture, building inspection, and design. Skilled professionals are in high demand for roles in project management, estimating, site supervision, and structural engineering. Careers in this industry range from hands-on positions like carpenters and electricians to specialized roles in urban planning and sustainable design. Earning industry credentials can significantly boost job prospects, with many positions leading to high salaries and career advancement. As the demand for infrastructure and sustainable building solutions grows, architecture and construction professionals play a vital role in shaping the built environment.

Jon Gillespie, Bat Box Maker | Original SC

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Meet a local outdoor shop owner who combines his love for nature with a fascinating hobby—creating bat boxes! With a passion for wildlife conservation, he crafts these boxes to provide safe habitats...

Ernest Middleton, Engineer | Original SC

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Ernest Middleton loves electricity. At 14, Middleton says his life was not going in the right direction and his mother decided to send him to his uncle, an electrician. Together, the pair did wiring...

Straw Bale House | ETV Shorts

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The Straw Bale House in Winnsboro, South Carolina was started as a project for students in the Sustainable Construction class at Midlands Technical College. The retreat was designed for a child who...

LLE Construction Group, LLC | Carolina Money

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Lasenta Lewis-Ellis is the owner of a local construction company, LLE Construction Group, LLC. Her business began operating in February 2011 as one of the few minority, women-owned, experienced small...

Landscape Designer | Creating a Career with the Arts in Mind: Artist Bios

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Landscape Designer, Renee Byrd, describes early influences, her career education, her career path. She also reflects on the courses she took that helped her career to evolve. Not only does she...

Residential Designer | Creating a Career with Arts in Mind: Artist Bios

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Residential Designer, Marty White, describes his work and recalls that he knew as early as 4th grade that drawing houses interested him. He recalls art classes in middle school, and his interest in...

Charles S. Way | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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Charles S. Way (Born December 18, 1937) It usually takes a hurricane or some other force of nature to change the face of a city, but if a single individual can accomplish such a feat, then surely...

Joseph H. Williams | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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Joe Williams never intended to get involved in the family-owned Williams Brothers pipeline construction business. He had other plans. Fate stepped in, however, and he spent 35 years with the...

George William Rogers | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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George William "Bill" Rogers (Born February 8, 1925) Bonitz, Inc., and Consolidated Systems, Inc., are hardly household names in Columbia, where they were established in the 1950s, but both are well...

Robert Marvin | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Robert Marvin, the father of southern landscape architecture, received numerous accolades and international recognition for his work in and philosophy of modern design within landscape architecture...

Edwin Wales Robertson | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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Edwin Wales Robertson (1863–1928) When he died of a heart attack, at age 65, on a business trip to New York City on November 20, 1928, The New York Times published a column-long story with the...

James C. "Jim" Self, Son: Mat Self | Legacy of Leadership Interview

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Host Jim Welch interviews Mat Self, the son of Jim Self and the grandson of James. C. Self. James C. "Jim" Self (1919–1998) James C. Self and his son, Jim, were the first father-son laureates of the...

James C. "Jim" Self | Legacy of Leadership

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James C. "Jim" Self (1919–1998) James C. Self and his son, Jim, were the first father-son laureates of the South Carolina Business Hall of Fame. Jim Self's father took over a run-down, 10-year-old...

Charles E. Daniel | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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Charles E. Daniel (1895–1964) Charles E. Daniel, founder of Daniel International Corporation, is credited with not only building many of the industrial plants that located in South Carolina during its...

Irwin Kahn | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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A profile of Irwin Kahn. Irwin Kahn (1912–1990) Irwin Kahn was a builder of buildings and community. Columbia's skyline, the University of South Carolina campus, the Midlands, and the state of South...

Ira M. Koger | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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Ira M. Koger (1912-2004) Ira Koger has enjoyed success in many endeavors, but real estate development has brought him fame and fortune and the opportunity to serve the communities he has called home...

Buck Mickel | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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Buck Mickel (1925–1998) Buck Mickel, retired chairman of Daniel International Corporation and retired vice chairman and president of Fluor Corporation, was respected as a giant in the Greenville...

Real Estate Developer | Hot Jobs

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A real estate developer describes his career and his career path.

Touch the Earth

Episode 6

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Exterior revisions to Crucible involved adding a sturdy, stacked stone layer to its dome and a covering of native plants such as ebony spleenwort and sheet moss. The following video features Clemson...

Touch the Earth | A Natural State

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Herb Parker describes his work as belonging to three distinct realms: architecture, sculpture, and landscape. Passageways, thresholds, oculi, seating areas, and planned spaces of light and shade...

Touch the Earth

Episode 4

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Extended ephemeral work lasts for several years while encouraging the artist and viewer to revisit the sculpture throughout its life cycle. Parker describes ephemeral elements of his work in the...

Interior Designer | Hot Jobs

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An interior designer discusses her profession.

Architect | Hot Jobs

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An architect discusses his profession and describes his career path.

Touch the Earth

Episode 5

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The nature-based art form blends natural materials, manmade construction and landscape into mysterious expressions of our relationship to the earth. The Serpent Mound in Ohio attributed to the Adena...