((PKG))  RESTORATION ARTS COLLEGE    
((Banner:  The Art of Restoration)) 
((Reporter:  Julie Taboh)) 
((Camera:  Adam Greenbaum))  
((Adapted by:  Zdenko Novacki)) 
((Map:  Charleston, South Carolina))   

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((Courtesy:  NOAA))  
((Popup Banner:  Hurricane Hugo tore through historic 
Charleston, South Carolina in 1989)) 
((Retired Lt. General Colby Broadwater, President, American 
College of Building Arts)) 
After Hurricane Hugo, the city had a lot of damage that had to be 
repaired and there were not enough craftsmen and skilled 
artisans to do it.  More damage is said to have been done by the 
bad repairs than done by the storm itself.  So, some interested 
citizens decided something needed to be done about that and it 
gave birth to what, at the time, was called The School of the 
Building Arts which was basically workshops and then in 2004, 
got a license from the state of South Carolina to open a college 
and they started classes here in 2005.   
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((Steven Fancsali, Student, American College of Building 
Arts))   
I saw the school on a TV show and my thought was, well, I wish I 
had known about this 10 years ago when I was actually looking at 
schools and I decided to just make a change and come here. 
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((Retired Lt. General Colby Broadwater, President, American 
College of Building Arts)) 
It's different and unique because we have blended a liberal arts 
education, you know, the critical thinking aspect of that with a skill 
set that we teach six different skilled areas, so that a student 
leaves here with the art and the science of either preservation, 
quality construction and the skills to be able to do it when they 
leave here.   
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((April Magill, Instructor, American College of Building Arts))  
So we are building with a method called Rammed Earth which is 
a sustainable building method that goes back 7,000 years.  The 
class is a hands-on building course where we try to give back to 
the community.  
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((Retired Lt. General Colby Broadwater, President, American 
College of Building Arts)) 
We touch so many places and so many people, public projects 
that enhance the beauty of this city or state.  The students are 
proud of actually producing something.  That's why they came 
here and so they can sit there and say, “I made that.” 
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((Simeon Warren, Instructor, American College of Building 
Arts))  
You're working on 250-year old monuments.  The value and worth 
of that means you don't want to make any mistakes.  That sense 
of worth for a person, I think, to actually know that their work is 
going to survive hundreds of years.  
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((Leigh Yarbough, Student, American College of Building 
Arts))  
I actually already got a job offer last week.  And he was like, “Let 
me know if anyone else is interested in hiring you because I'll be 
competitive”.  So, there’s just a lot of opportunities after this. 
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