A Building Craft FoundationThe second edition of this title has been fully updated to bring it in line with the 2002 QCA accredited CITB specifications. Part of the Nelson Thornes Construction NVQ series, this book is for all NVQ Level 1, GNVQ, City & Guilds and overseas IVQ courses in building craft and carpentry. Acc essible and user friendly, it features a new numerical skills unit. It has the study units: the construction industry; health and safety; communications; numerical skills; and scaffolding materials |
Contents
The building team | 7 |
Health and Safety | 35 |
The regulations | 49 |
Regulation of hazardous substances | 62 |
Communications | 81 |
Construction activity documents | 94 |
Messages | 109 |
Types of numbers | 127 |
Units of measurement | 142 |
Statistics | 157 |
Formulae | 173 |
Scaffolding | 203 |
Other working platforms | 216 |
Materials | 225 |
Storage of fragile or perishable materials | 239 |
Common terms and phrases
accidents addition allowance amount angle ANSWER base blocks bricks building Calculate called carried cement centres coat Communications COMPLETE concrete Construction Industry contained contract contractor covered cutting damage Date decimal divide door drawings drawn edge employer ensure equal equipment Example figure fixed floor four give ground hazardous Health and Safety height hundred injury inspection joists ladders length LOAD materials measure method metres mortar multiply normally Note Numerical Skills operatives paint person platform position prevent protection quantity Questions READ Regulations responsible risk roof safe scaffold scale shape sheets sides spaces specific square stacked standard stored structure STUDY substance supplied supported surface taken task tiles timber units volume wall window
Bibliographic information
| Title | A Building Craft Foundation Nelson Thornes construction NVQ series : levels 1 & 2 Nelson Thornes construction NVQ series |
| Author | Peter Brett |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Nelson Thornes, 2002 |
| ISBN | 074876531X, 9780748765317 |
| Length | 248 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |