Construction Center of Excellence Information

Building a strong construction workforce for Washington, the Construction Center of Excellence partners with stakeholders throughout Washington State to provide best-in-class resources, trainings, and information. About Us In 2009, Washington became the first and only state in the nation to codify Centers of Excellence into state statute (HB1323). Washington is recognized nationally for creating the Center model as a sector strategy to serve as an economic development convener for industries that help the state’s economy grow. Hosted at Renton Technical College, the Construction Center of Excellence serves business, industry, labor, and community and technical colleges in the state that have construction programs. Mission Washington’s Centers of Excellence serve as the statewide liaisons to business, industry, labor, workforce development, and the state’s educational systems for the purpose of creating a highly-skilled, readily-available workforce critical to the state’s economy and supporting Washington families. Core Expectations Economic Development Focus: Serve as partners with various state and local agencies, regional, national, and global organizations to support economic vitality and competitiveness in Washington’s driver industries Industry Sector Strategy Focus: Collaboratively build, expand and leverage industry, labor and community and technical college partnerships to support and promote responsive, rigorous, and relevant workforce education and training. Education, Innovation and Efficiency Focus: Leverage resources and educational partnerships to create efficiencies and support development of curriculum and innovative delivery of educational strategies to build a diverse and competitive workforce. Workforce Supply/Demand Focus: Research, analyze and disseminate information related to training capacity, skill gaps, trends, and best practices within each industry sector to support a viable new and incumbent workforce.