Venues

Cardonald Campus

Content

This course is designed to equip you with the knowledge, skills and understanding required for employment in a dynamic construction industry. There are so many aspects to construction for the appropriately trained; organising resources, materials, labour, and planning, as well as monitoring construction quality and progress.

This course allows you to work in the construction industry without following a traditional apprenticeship route, but can also enhance the opportunity for you to be taken on as an apprentice.

The course is predominantly theory-based with a small practical element.

Content:
Construction Technology: Modern methods of construction; Health and Safety; Construction materials; Construction site surveying: an introduction; Building Environment Project.

Entry Requirements

English or Maths and Design and Manufacture at National 5, or Digital Introduction to Construction (Level 5), or NPA Construction, or equivalent qualification at SCQF Level 5. Interview.

Progression Routes

HNC Construction programmes.