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Building Services Syllabus

This course prepares students for jobs in building maintenance through learning skills like carpentry, plumbing, electrical work and more. Students will learn to carry out and maintain various trades through projects and become proficient in a broad range of building maintenance skills.

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Topics covered

  • Trade Knowledge,
  • Project-Based Learning,
  • Hands-On Projects,
  • Hobbit House Project,
  • Landscaping,
  • Free Standing Bath,
  • Practical Applications,
  • Wooden Boats,
  • Safety Gear,
  • Technical Skills
202 views3 pages

Building Services Syllabus

This course prepares students for jobs in building maintenance through learning skills like carpentry, plumbing, electrical work and more. Students will learn to carry out and maintain various trades through projects and become proficient in a broad range of building maintenance skills.

Uploaded by

api-295300147
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd

Topics covered

  • Trade Knowledge,
  • Project-Based Learning,
  • Hands-On Projects,
  • Hobbit House Project,
  • Landscaping,
  • Free Standing Bath,
  • Practical Applications,
  • Wooden Boats,
  • Safety Gear,
  • Technical Skills

Building Services Syllabus

Course Description:
This course prepares the student for jobs in the Building Maintenance

industry. The Building Maintenance industry is is a broad field that incompences many fields

including carpentry, woodworking, masonry, electrical, plumbing, landscaping, flooring, tile work

and painting.

In Building services we strive to do interesting projects while staying within the boundary of our

curriculum. Some of our past projects include building a Hobbit House during our courtyard

project (landscaping & masonry). Wooden Longboard surfboards (woodworking). Wooden Boats

(woodworking). And several different buildings including a free standing full bath (carpentry,

plumbing, & ceramic tile work).

Course Objective:
Students will become proficient in a broad range of diversified Building

Maintenance skills. They will be taught how to carry out the work of these varied trades, and

then also how to maintain the work.

Textbooks Utilized:
‘House Framing’ , Harper & Row, 2005

‘Modern Woodworking’, Random House, 2003

‘Modern Residential Wiring’, Delmar Learning, 2012


‘Modern Carpentry’, Goodheart-Wilcox, 2008

Required Materials:
Students are required to wear, at a bare minimum, athletic shoes to shop. There will be no

open toed shoes, slides, or crocs worn in the shop.

Students will be responsible for intentionally damaged tools and equipment.

Students must wear approved safety glasses while in the shop.

Students will not take out a cell phone at any time in the shop unless expressly

authorized by the instructor.

Students must wear ear protection while machines are in use.

Evaluation:
Students will be graded daily on their “Shop Work”. This grade will be based on their

mastery of the skill being taught as well as the amount of effort put forth.

Shop Work—-----80% of grade

Tests & Quizzes–20% of grade

Class Policies:
There will be no cell phone use without permission.

There will be no eating in the shop.

There will be no drinking of any beverage other than water in the shop.

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