Course Number: VBM101

Course Title: Building Maintenance I

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES 

General Objective

Provides the students with the opportunity to correctly use a range of Hand & Power Tools more commonly used by building maintenance personnel. This course will also provide the student with knowledge and hands-on experience in Blueprint Reading, Surface Preparation and Finishing and Trim work.

Specific Objectives

Students will be able to:

  1. identify, select, use, maintain, and store hand tools and equipment used in building maintenance.
  2. manufacture a range of timber construction joints.
  3. explain the benefits of scheduling practices in building maintenance.
  4. identify and interpret types of plans and symbols, extract and communicate basic information needed for everyday
       requirements from plans and specifications.
  5. reproduce shapes to nominated scales.
  6. draw a full size setout of a project to a given specification.
  7. identify and remove defects in timber surfaces required for finishing.
  8. select, prepare and apply stoppings to timber surfaces to repair nail holes and defects.
  9. identify, describe and perform defect removal from various substrates used in the building industry.
10. demonstrate the skills and knowledge required to be able to apply specified paint coatings to selected surfaces.
11. demonstrate the skills and knowledge required to be able to install a window and door with finishing hardware.
12. identify and install different types of trim molding.
13. identify various insulation, flashing, and siding used in building construction and describe their use.