September 1, 2025 OSE Apprenticeship Curriculum

2 Week Builder Crash Course 6 more weeks focusing on Topic Area

Topic Areas: Year 1 Focuses on Mastering Construction. This cycle repeats every 2 months, with 5 cycles per year, and 6th cycle is vacation where students can work, rest, or participate in field trips: industrial tourism to China, school builds, service learning ghetto builds, drone manufacturing for Ukraine, etc.

Cycle 1

Sep 1 - Nov 1, 2025.

1. 20 Builder Trades - learn all the trades involved in house construction from foundation to PV - as you build 2 homes in 8 weeks.
2. House Builder Enterprise - Learn everything around the enterprise ecosystem related to construction: Architecture-Landscape Design-Interior Design 101 - how to produce architecture drawing for the building department; Surveying 101 - using open source RTK gps to measure coordinates and identify markers using standard formats, Structural Engineering 101 - how to do first principle calculations. Reconciling with tables., Soils Engineering 101 - performing soil bearing capacity tests and soil tests; means and techniques for stabilizing earth and preparing sites for construction; Electrical Design 101- Generating Electrical Engineering Designs for ; Generating Architecture Drawings with Open Source Software; Site Elevations, Site Plan, Landscape Plan; Site surveying with drones. Digital twinning of landscapes. Working with 3rd party inspectors. How to get a General Contractor License, an Electrical License, Plumbing license, and HVAC license.

Cycle 2 - Nov 1 - Dec 20

1. Open Source Materials Production Facility - Milling Your Own Lumber; Solar Concrete From Limestone; 3D Printed Parts. CEBs. Opensourcing one of the machines in a 6 week design sprint. Shoot for 100 onsite participants.

Others

1. Housing Innovation - Off-Grid Smart Home - Design and Build of a Thermal Storage for Heating and Cooling Using PV; Smart Home Controller 101; Compressed Air Energy Storage 101, Nickel Iron Batteries as the only lifetime design battery.