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Foundational Standards

Incorporate safety procedures in handling, operating, and maintaining tools and machinery; handling materials; utilizing personal protective equipment; maintaining a safe work area; and handling hazardous materials and forces.

Demonstrate effective workplace and employability skills, including communication, awareness of diversity, positive work ethic, problem-solving, time management, and teamwork.

Explore the range of careers available in the field and investigate their educational requirements, and demonstrate job-seeking skills including resume-writing and interviewing.

Advocate and practice safe, legal, responsible, and ethical use of information and technology tools specific to the industry pathway.

Participate in a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) to increase knowledge and skills and to enhance leadership and teamwork.

Differential Leveling

Use a builder’s level and differential-leveling procedures to determine site and building elevations, explaining how differential leveling is used to establish point elevations, cross-sections, and control benchmarks.

Set up and calibrate a leveling instrument.

Calculate elevations using backsight (BS) and foresight (FS) data from field notes recorded from a differential leveling survey.

Demonstrate proper handling and storage of tools and equipment associated with differential leveling.

Reinforcing Concrete

List applications of reinforced concrete and the general requirements for working with reinforcing steel, including tools, equipment, and fabricating methods.

Describe methods by which reinforcing bars may be bent and cut in the field and explain the methods for placing reinforcing steel.

Trenching and Excavating

Summarize safety guidelines for working in and around foundation excavations and trenches.

Describe various shoring, shielding, and sloping systems used for trenches and excavations.

Draft a job hazard/safety analysis for an excavation according to given specifications.

Compare and contrast the different types, bearing capacities, and classifications of soils.

Describe methods of compacting and testing soil.

Foundations and Slab-on-grade

Describe how to use control points when establishing formwork locations and elevations.

Lay out a foundation for a small building according to given specifications.

Establish building lines and install batter boards for a small building.

Describe the various types of foundations and identify appropriate uses for each.

Describe how slabs-on-grade are formed and finished.

Vertical Formwork

Identify the basic types of concrete wall forms and describe the applications for panel, gang, and patented wall-form systems.

Describe the types and applications of various column forms and vertical slipforming.

Describe how to construct stair forms.

Horizontal Formwork

Compare and contrast various types of structural-concrete floor and roof slabs.

Describe different types of form systems including specialty form systems.

Describe types of elevated decks and different types of shores and describe applications for each.

Handling and Placing Concrete