Penn State Students Tour Columbia Construction Site
Columbia, MD—Thirty-five students from Penn State University toured the construction site at Stanford Overlook on 8894 Stanford Boulevard in Columbia recently. The students—junior and senior engineering and construction management majors—spent the day with the project’s construction manager/general contractor Therrien Waddell, Inc., property owners Baxley Development and architect WH Stablein, AIA & Associates. The Maryland Chapter of the Associated General Contractors (AGC) coordinated the visit.
“By being onsite, the students were able to see firsthand the challenges of designing and building a property of this caliber, and we were able to explain to the process of solving problems with a construction project of this magnitude,” said Jerry Therrien, President of Therrien Waddell. “The students asked a multitude of questions I don’t think they would have had if they had not seen the project firsthand.”
“We were lucky to have the team at Stanford Overlook welcome the students for the day,” said AGC President Champe McCulloch. “The folks at Therrien Waddell opened the site up to Penn State’s engineering and construction management majors and brought in the project’s owners and architects. It was a tremendous learning experience all around.”
Therrien Waddell, Inc. is a general contractor, construction management and commercial construction company, headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.
