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| Arkansas Institute for Building Preservation
The institute, which opened in the fall of 2000, is the result of collaboration between the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program of the Department of Arkansas Heritage and Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas. Due to a shortage of people skilled in preservation trades, the institute was set up to provide a workshop based program where men and women are educated in a range of relevant trades, techniques and methodologies. By coupling theory and practice in a supervised workshop environment, students learn the skills necessary for maintaining, rehabilitating and restoring historic buildings. The AIBPT Mission
The AIBPT offers a course of training through a curriculum that teaches the skills necessary for maintaining, rehabilitating and restoring historic buildings. We believe that a student has a better learning experience when theory and practice are taught together, accomplished by practicing the lessons of the class room in supervised lab work. What a student can expect to learn:
Learning Methodology Classes are taught using a combination of class and lab experiences. First year classes are typically sequential, following a step-building method that parallels the building process. This approach helps a student to understand one type of work or skill before proceeding to the next level. Second year classes run simultaneously through each semester, and allow extended time for project completion. Workshops are also offered for specific restoration topics, including window repair and restoration, repointing historic brick, painting building exteriors, and historic building maintenance. These workshops are also brought to communities by appointment with the Institute. The program is the result of a unique collaboration between the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, and Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas, at Helena. Another agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage the Delta Cultural Center, owns the 1859 Moore-Hornor home, which currently provides students in the Institute with a working field lab.
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The
AIBPT provides a workshop-based program and facility where men and women
are trained in a range of relevant preservation trades, techniques and
methodologies. 
The
essentials of preservation theory and of the principles guiding work
performed on historic buildings. An understanding of how buildings are
constructed and the history of their technologies. Recognizing a range
of historic building conditions, problems and failures. Learn the
importance of preventative maintenance, and design a maintenance plan.
Basic and advanced practical skills applied to a variety of actual
repair and restoration projects. How to organize, estimate and supervise
a restoration project. 
