The Construction Trades Education Partnership (CTEP) is a collaboration of the Builders Exchange of Tennessee (BXTN), University of Tennessee Knoxville's Construction Science Program(UTK), and select high schools in the state of Tennessee.

We do this in three ways. First, our annual CTEP Career Fair introduces high school students to the many opportunities in commercial construction.

Finally, our annual CTEP Trades Competition gives high school students the opportunity to demonstrate what they've learned in their trades classes, as well as teaching them how to work with other trades under a deadline - essentially, the core task of commercial construction.