LES unveils tiny house built by LPS students

The sustainable home project is a partnership between LES and The Career Academy at Southeast Community College.

The students are learning hands-on how to build a sustainable home through construction and building skills. 

“As a student, we don’t know anything about building construction, we need help from our building advisors and teachers to showing us the right way to do things so that it can last and be very well for the future,” said Tiny Home Project student Zach Lagasse. 

In this multifaceted form of skilled learning, the students are not only exposed to construction, but in thinking about the energy business with LES. Instructor at Southeast Community College, Michael Howe, says the hands-on approach is just what every student needs. 

“You can only learn so much from a book and then when they start to see it and put those pieces together, those studs, those plates, the insulation, all of a sudden you start to see their eyes light up and all of a sudden the light comes on and that’s when ‘oh I get it’,” said Howe. 

Investing sustainability into future generations is a necessary step for the well-being of a productive society. This tiny home project sets the stage as the learning curve for future developments. 

“The tiny house right now will show people that there are other ways of achieving things that they want like newer advanced style houses, they could achieve it by showing the materials they use in the tiny house so that way they don’t harm the environment,” said Tiny Home Project student Fatima Ayal. 

“Sustainability, lead certifications, going green, when they start to get that and their light comes on with that, that’s where I get emotionally excited because I am investing in my future, in my family’s, in your family’s, in her family’s future by doing that.”

The project is on course to be completed by 2020 and will then be showcased all around by LES as a model for green building and sustainable appliances for the future.