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Construction Academy

A complete building and construction course in English and French – and how to start your own building business: 5 parts, 20 modules and 120 lessons. The industry and building rules, site safety (working at height, excavations, plant, dust and asbestos), materials, drawings, setting out and quantities, groundworks and foundations, concrete, brickwork and blockwork, frames and floors, roofs, walls, windows and insulation, internal finishes, renovation, extensions and lofts, and running a site – then choosing a business model, registration, insurance, contracts and planning, tools, plant and merchants, estimating, quoting, stage payments and variations, marketing, subcontractors, tenders and handling problems. Every lesson has three readings, a worked example, common mistakes, on-the-job checks, key terms, self-checks and a quiz. Look things up in a tools, plant and materials library, a problem solver, reference tables and a glossary; practise with 17 calculators (concrete, cement, bricks, blocks, plaster, roof pitch, tiles, paint, drainage fall, excavation, estimates, day rate, break-even, stage payments, start-up budget, tax set-aside, variations), 20 site decisions, 10 checklists and an exam.

Ready to try · A complete building and construction course in English and French – and how to start your own building business: 5 parts, 20 modules and 120 lessons. The industry and building rules, site safety (working at height, excavations, plant, dust and asbestos), materials, drawings, setting out and quantities, groundworks and foundations, concrete, brickwork and blockwork, frames and floors, roofs, walls, windows and insulation, internal finishes, renovation, extensions and lofts, and running a site – then choosing a business model, registration, insurance, contracts and planning, tools, plant and merchants, estimating, quoting, stage payments and variations, marketing, subcontractors, tenders and handling problems. Every lesson has three readings, a worked example, common mistakes, on-the-job checks, key terms, self-checks and a quiz. Look things up in a tools, plant and materials library, a problem solver, reference tables and a glossary; practise with 17 calculators (concrete, cement, bricks, blocks, plaster, roof pitch, tiles, paint, drainage fall, excavation, estimates, day rate, break-even, stage payments, start-up budget, tax set-aside, variations), 20 site decisions, 10 checklists and an exam.