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Construction:
Carpentry Level 2 NEW! (10 wks)
...........This program is provisionally designated by the ITA to be delivered once in Campbell River and once in Nanaimo.

Towards the end of these two classes the ITA will review the programs for full designation.

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Campbell River& Nanaimo

Locations & Dates

Campbell River Nanaimo
2008
October

Program Overview

This program is designed to provide the learner with the hands-on training required to develop the skills, knowledge, and attitudes that will enable you to work as a Level Two Carpenter.

Graduates of this program will have completed the in-school technical training competencies necessary to earn Level Two of their Industry Training Authority Certificate of Qualification as a Carpenter and Level Two of their Inter-Provincial Red Seal Endorsement as a Carpenter. These credentials are issued by the Industry Training Authority (ITA) upon satisfactory completion of twenty-four weeks of in-school technical training and 5000 hours of work-based training.

GOALS

Upon successful completion of this in-school program, students will possess the skills, knowledge, and attitudes that will enable them to:

  • Use Safe Work Practices
  • Describe shop and site safety practices
  • Interpret Drawings and Specifications
  • Read construction drawings and specifications
  • Describe concrete types, materials, and additives
  • Describe materials and hardware used to construct forms
  • Identify manufactured form products
  • Describe embedded metals and plastics
  • Describe concrete treatments and joint sealers
  • Calculate quantities of concrete
  • Use Survey Instruments
  • Use leveling instruments
  • Use Rigging and Hoisting Equipment
  • Describe fiber ropes and tie knots, bends and hitches
  • Describe the safe use and maintenance of hoisting equipment
  • Build Concrete Formwork
  • Describe construction details for concrete forms
  • Build suspended slab forms and slab-on-grade forms
  • Build concrete stair forms
  • Describe methods of placing, finishing, and curing concrete
  • Describe specialized forming methods
  • Describe installing anchor bolts and metals in concrete

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Message from our Director of Trades & Technical Training


"I have been fortunate enough to have hired three people out of your program and I am thoroughly pleased."

Greg Cox, G.D.C. Woodworking Ltd., Campbell River, BC