This unit covers the competencies required to prepare and interpret technical drawings. It involves competencies to select, use and maintain drawing equipment and materials. It also involves producing plain geometry drawings, solid geometry drawings, pictorial and orthographic drawings and application of Computer Aided Design (CAD) packages.
This unit describes the competencies required by a technician in order to apply algebra apply trigonometry and hyperbolic functions, apply complex numbers, apply coordinate geometry, carry out binomial expansion, apply calculus, solve ordinary differential equations, carry out mensuration, apply power series, apply statistics, apply numerical methods, apply vector theory and apply matrix.
This unit specifies the competencies required to demonstrate occupational health and safety practices. It involves identifying workplace hazards and risks, identifying and implementing appropriate control measures to hazards and risks and implementing OSH programs, procedures and policies/guidelines.
This unit specifies the competencies required to demonstrate environmental literacy. It involves, controlling environmental hazard and environmental pollution, demonstrating sustainable resource use, evaluating current practices in relation to resource usage, identifying environmental legislations/conventions for environmental concerns, implementing specific environmental programs, monitoring activities on environmental protection/Programs , analyzing resource use and developing resource conservation plans
This unit covers competencies required to demonstrate employability skills. It involves conducting self-management, demonstrating interpersonal communication, critical safe work habits, leading a workplace team, planning and organizing work, maintaining professional growth and development, demonstrating workplace learning, problem solving skills and managing ethical performance.
This unit covers the competencies required to demonstrate understanding of entrepreneurship. It involves demonstrating understanding of an entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, and self-employment, identifying entrepreneurship opportunities, creating entrepreneurial awareness, applying entrepreneurial motivation, developing business innovative strategies and developing business plan.
This unit describes competencies required to demonstrate digital literacy. It involves, identifying computer software and hardware, applying security measures to data, hardware, and software in automated environment, applying computer software in solving task, applying internet and email in communication at workplace, applying desktop publishing in official assignments and preparing presentation packages.
This unit covers the competencies required to demonstrate communication skills. It involves meeting communication needs of clients and colleagues, developing communication strategies, establishing and maintaining communication pathways, conducting interviews, facilitating group discussion and representing the organization.
This Unit describes the competencies required to perform superstructure works. It involves setting out and erecting superstructure walls, constructing superstructure columns, stairs, beams and upper floors, erecting building roof, constructing fire place and installing fixtures and fittings
This unit describes the competences required to perform substructure works. It involves setting out the building, excavating foundation, laying building foundation, erecting foundation, constructing solid ground floor and finishing substructure works.
This unit describes the competence in Managing Construction Materials, Tools and Equipment. It involves preparation of site facility for storage, building material and equipment scheduling, ordering and receiving materials and equipment and preparing periodic construction material and equipment report.
This unit describes the competences required to manufacture masonry units. It involves producing masonry bricks, preparing concrete and clay products and dressing building stones
This Unit describes the competencies required to perform site preliminary works. It involves determining site boundaries, clearing building site, hoarding/screening the site, surveying the building site, preparing site layout, testing building materials, demolishing unwanted structures and preparing site preliminary report.
This unit describes the competence required to produce building drawings. It involves designing architectural drawings and plumbing layouts, preparing structural, electrical and mechanical drawings.
This Unit describes the competencies required to perform building temporary works. It involves erecting and dismantling building scaffolds and building shores, constructing and dismantling building formwork/shuttering and trench timbering.
This unit describes the competence in applying workshop technology practices.
It entails performing masonry, plumbing and carpentry tasks. It also involves performing electrical and mechanical operations.
This unit describes the competence in applying building materials science. It involves identifying essential construction materials, identifying properties of construction materials, manufacturing construction materials, selecting quality construction materials, using construction materials appropriately, testing construction materials and demonstrating knowledge in use of construction materials.
This Unit describes the competences required to manage a construction project. It involves organizing construction site; interpreting building contract documents; preparing; project work plan, ledgers, journals and final accounts; manage human resource, site records & activities as well as coordinating quality standards and costing construction projects.
This Unit describes the competences required to install building windows and doors. It involves preparing window and door schedule, fabricating/ordering building doors and windows, fixing building doors and windows and applying door and window finishes.
This Unit describes the competencies required to install building services. It involves installing ICT and specialized services, installing electrical services and installing mechanical services.
This Unit describes the competency required to perform building external works. It involves laying cabro blocks and paving slabs, performing landscaping, constructing drainage systems, fences and gates.
This unit describes the competences required to perform building finishes. It entails plastering building walls (internal and external) applying floor finishes, painting building surfaces, applying building facings, wall mastering, lining wall surfaces, carrying out pointing and jointing, cladding building walls and performing rough cast.
