Building industry award given to OCC professors

Four Orange Coast College construction technology instructors and

the vice president of California Pacific Homes received the Building

Industry Assn. of Orange County’s prestigious “Ruby Slippers” award

Monday.

Ravin Carlson, David Rodriguez, Dean Robert H. Mendoza Jr. and

Robert Cavanaugh, along with California Pacific Homes Vice President

Jon Robertson, received the honor.

The award, created in 1999, honors persons or organizations not

working directly in the real estate industry that demonstrate an

innovative or extraordinary commitment to illuminating challenges in

the home building industry or solutions to crucial housing issues in

Orange County.

The association recognized the Construction Technology Department

at OCC for having the largest and most comprehensive training program

in residential construction and management in the United States.

Several executives of leading home building companies have

graduated from the Construction Tech program, including Richard

Douglass, the South Coast division president of Centex Homes.