Course structure

• Comply with legal requirements for a construction contract.
• Calculate construction quantities and develop a work plan.
• Demonstrate an understanding and implement environmental initiatives on a construction project.
• Describe and interpret the composition, role-players, processes and role of the construction industry.
• Implement a quality management system, project quality plan and a quality improvement process on a construction project.
• Lead and supervise construction teams.
• Monitor and control cost and production of construction work activities and implement productivity improvements.
• Perform site administration functions.
• Read, interpret and use construction drawings and specifications.
• Supervise health and safety on a construction project.
• Supervise the procurement, use and storage of construction materials.
• Apply contract documentation.
• Demonstrate knowledge of and produce computer spreadsheets using basic functions.
• Demonstrate knowledge of and produce word processing documents using basic functions.
• Accommodate audience and context needs in oral communication.
• Interpret and use information from texts.
• Use language and communication in occupational learning programmes.
• Write texts for a range of communicative contexts.
• Apply knowledge of statistics and probability to critically interrogate and effectively communicate findings on life related problems.
• Engage in sustained oral communication and evaluate spoken texts.
• Measure, estimate & calculate physical quantities & explore, critique & prove geometrical relationships in 2 and 3 dimensional space in the life and workplace of adult with increasing responsibilities.
• Read analyze and respond to a variety of texts.
• Use language and communication in occupational learning programmes.
• Use mathematics to investigate and monitor the financial aspects of personal, business, national and international issues.
• Write for a wide range of contexts.
• Identify describe and use materials in civil engineering construction.
• Demonstrate knowledge of concrete construction technology.
• Implement labour intensive construction systems and techniques.
• Inspect access scaffolding.
• Interpret test/lab results in civil construction.
• Organize and control finishing carpentry activities.
• Organize and control masonry activities.
• Organize and control plumbing activities.
• Organize and control roof carpentry activities.
• Organize and control the installation of concrete segmented paving blocks.
• Organize and control the installation of jacked pipes.
• Organize and control the spraying of bitumen on road surfaces.
• Organize and control tiling and plastering activities.
• Organize and control concreting activities.
• Organize and control general road maintenance activities.
• Organize and control road rehabilitation by milling.
• Organize and control the construction of bulk earthworks.
• Organize and control the utilization of plant and equipment in civil engineering construction.
• Plan organize and control the installation of drainage structures for stormwater flow.
• Plan, organize and control the construction of stabilized and unstabilized pavement layers.
• Plan, organize and control the installation of Armco pipes.
• Plan, organize and control the installation of pressure and gravity drainage pipes.
• Plan, organize and control the maintenance of gravity drainage structures.
• Plan, organize and control the maintenance of pressure pipelines.
• Set out construction work areas.
• Use labour intensive construction methods to construct and maintain roads and stormwater drainage.
• Use labour intensive construction methods to construct and maintain water and sanitation services.
• Use labour intensive construction methods to construct, repair and maintain structures.
• Initiate testing and interpret test/lab results in civil construction.
• Organize and control a binder manufacturing process.
• Organize and control a hot mix asphalt manufacturing process.