Course structure

• Describe and interpret the composition, role-players, processes and role of the construction industry.
• Establish and prepare a work area.
• Handle, transport, store and utilize hazardous materials on a civil construction site.
• Identify describe and use materials in civil engineering construction.
• Implement roadside safety procedures.
• Maintain records on a construction site.
• Read and interpret construction drawings and specifications.
• Render basic first aid.
• Use and maintain small plant and equipment on a construction site.
• Work in confined spaces on construction sites.
• Engage in a range of speaking and listening interactions for a variety of purposes.
• Identify and respond to selected literary texts.
• Read and respond to a range of text types.
• Write for a variety of different purposes.
• Access and use information from texts.
• Apply basic knowledge of statistics and probability to influence the use of data and procedures in order to investigate life related problems.
• Demonstrate understanding of rational and irrational numbers and number systems.
• Maintain and adapt oral communication.
• Measure, estimate and calculate physical quantities and explore, describe and represent geometrical relationships in 2-dimensions in different life or workplace contexts.
• Use language and communication in occupational learning programmes.
• Use mathematics to investigate and monitor the financial aspects of personal and community life.
• Work with a range of patterns and functions and solve problems.
• Write for a defined context.
• Batch and mix concrete by volume.
• Develop and use keyboard skills to enter text.
• Transport personnel, material and equipment using Light Delivery Vehicle.
• Apply health and safety to a work area.
• Apply productivity principles on a construction site.
• Apply quality principles on a construction site.
• Conduct a bituminous seal operation.
• Demonstrate an understanding and implement environmental initiatives on a construction activity.
• Erect and maintain guardrails on a road construction site.
• Maintain and repair bituminous road surfaces.
• Replace batter poles/boards, profiles and layer works pegs from given survey data.
• Set out control point for center line and edge line marking for road marking.
• Construct precast kerbs and concrete channels on a roadworks construction site.
• Erect fencing.