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National Certificate: Construction (Contracting)

  • Course Code: 20813
  • Duration: 10-12 Months
  • Level: NQF2
  • Industry: Construction
Course structure


• Demonstrate an understanding of a general business plan and adapt it to a selected business idea.
• Demonstrate an understanding of entrepreneurship and develop entrepreneurial qualities.
• Demonstrate the ability to start and run a business and adapt to a changing business environment.
• Identify, analyze and select business opportunities.
• Apply basic business concepts.
• Apply construction contract documentation.
• Apply health and safety to a work area.
• Apply quality principles on a construction site.
• Comply with legal requirements for a construction contract.
• Describe the construction industry composition its work procurement systems and communication techniques.
• Implement construction site management procedures.
• Implement site administration procedures on a construction project.
• Manage construction resources.
• Setup and manage a construction contracting business
• Tender for construction contracts.
• 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.
• Apply basic business concepts.
• Read, analyze and respond to a variety of texts.
• Apply surveying techniques on a construction contract.
• Understand and apply business finances.


• Apply basic business principles to sell services, manage payment processing and conduct business in an ethical, professional manner.
• Apply basic health and safety legislation in the form of standards and procedures governing health and safety in the workplace, to ensure that they contribute to a safe, healthy environment for themselves and others.
• Manage quality, and to apply specifications on a construction project.

Grade 10

This will allow persons to register as a Construction Contractor and lay a foundation for future career advancement across similar SMME programmes (entrepreneurship) in other sectors as well as to supervisory and management qualifications within the construction sector.

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