The purpose of this course is to build confidence in interpreting and checking drawings for a range of job roles. The training can help with pricing work correctly, setting out and constructing works accurately and identifying errors or missing information in drawings at the earliest possible opportunity to reduce delays.
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Description
Setting Out For Construction has developed this course to equip those within commercial, supervision, management, engineering, operative and quality control roles working in the construction industry with the knowledge and skills to interpret and check drawings as required within the context of their job role. Roles attending may include trainee or newly qualified engineers, gangers, foremen, supervisors, estimators, quantity surveyors or any job which requires a technical understanding of the construction process.
Learning Objectives
By the end of the course, delegates will be able to:
- Check if a drawing is to the scale shown on the drawing
- Check if a drawing is to scale when no scale is given
- Calculate a scale factor without a scale rule
- Calculate a scale which is not round number
- Take measurements from construction drawings
- Interpret drainage drawings (Layout, cross-sections, elevations, details and manhole schedules)
- Interpret reinforced concrete drawings
- Interpret road alignment and construction detail drawings
- Carry out calculations to check falls and gradients given are correct in relation to invert levels
- Use a systematic method to cross reference information on different drawings and
- Extract relevant information from a construction drawing and create a working sketch
- Define common terminology and abbreviations
