
Roads Construction
National Certificate: Construction: Roadworks, NQF Level 2 - SAQA ID - 24133
CORES
Describe and interpret the composition, roleplayers, processes and role of the construction industry |
Establish and prepare a work area |
Handle, transport, store and utilize hazardous materials on a civil construction site |
Identify describe and use materials in civil engineering construction |
Implement roadside safety procedures |
Maintain records on a construction site |
Read and interpret construction drawings and specifications |
Render basic first aid |
Use and maintain small plant and equipment on a construction site |
Work in confined spaces on construction sites |
FUNDAMENTALS
Engage in a range of speaking and listening interactions for a variety of purposes |
Identify and respond to selected literary texts |
Read and respond to a range of text types |
Write for a variety of different purposes |
Access and use information from texts |
Apply basic knowledge of statistics and probability to influence the use of data and procedures in order to investigate life related problems |
Demonstrate understanding of rational and irrational numbers and number systems |
Maintain and adapt oral communication |
Measure, estimate and calculate physical quantities and explore, describe and represent geometrical relationships in 2-dimensions in different life or workplace contexts |
Use language and communication in occupational learning programmes |
Use mathematics to investigate and monitor the financial aspects of personal and community life |
Work with a range of patterns and functions and solve problems |
Write for a defined context |
ELECTIVES
Batch and mix concrete by volume |
Develop and use keyboard skills to enter text |
Apply health and safety to a work area |
Apply hot mix asphalt |
Apply productivity principles on a construction site |
Apply quality principles on a construction site |
Conduct a bituminous seal operation |
Control vegetation by use of herbicides |
Demonstrate an understanding and implement environmental initiatives on a construction activity |
Erect and maintain guardrails on a road construction site |
Install and maintain road furniture |
Install road studs |
Maintain and repair bituminous road surfaces |
Maintain and repair un-surfaced road shoulders |
Operate a personal computer system |
Paint road symbols by spray gun |
Protect banks |
Replace batter poles/boards, profiles and layer works pegs from given survey data |
Set out control point for centre line and edge line marking for road marking |
Use a small self propelled compactor to compact material |
Construct precast kerbs and concrete channels on a roadworks construction site |
Erect fencing |
Erect palisade fencing |
Install road markers |
Repair/replace minor structures |
National Certificate: Construction: Roadworks, NQF Level 3 - SAQA ID - 24173
CORES
Apply health and safety to a work area |
Apply quality principles on a construction site |
Establish and prepare a work area |
Handle, transport, store and utilize hazardous materials on a civil construction site |
Identify describe and use materials in civil engineering construction |
Implement roadside safety procedures |
Maintain records on a constuction site |
Render basic first aid |
Work in confined spaces on construction sites |
Calculate construction quantities to develop a work plan |
Interpret the composition, construction sequence and processes of the construction industry |
Procure materials, tools and equipment |
Read and interpret construction drawings and specifications |
FUNDAMENTALS
Access and use information from texts |
Maintain and adapt oral communication |
Use language and communication in occupational learning programmes |
Write for a defined context |
Accommodate audience and context needs in oral communication |
Demonstrate an understanding of the use of different number bases and measurement units and an awareness of error in the context of relevant calculations |
Describe, apply, analyse and calculate shape and motion in 2-and 3-dimensional space in different contexts |
Interpret and use information from texts |
Investigate life and work related problems using data and probabilities |
Use language and communication in occupational learning programmes |
Use mathematics to investigate and monitor the financial aspects of personal, business and national issues |
Write texts for a range of communicative contexts |
ELECTIVES
Develop and use keyboard skills to enter text |
Conduct a bituminous seal operation |
Erect and maintain guardrails on a road construction site |
Install manholes and chambers on a civil construction site |
Install precast concrete pipes |
Install road studs |
Maintain and repair bituminous road surfaces |
Operate a personal computer system |
Set out control point for centre line and edge line marking for road marking |
Construct precast kerbs and concrete channels on a roadworks construction site |
Erect directional signs (Range > 10 m2) |
Erect directional signs overhead < 10 m2 |
Erect fencing |
Erect palisade fencing |
Install road markers |
Operate mechanical painting machine for remarking |
Organise and control the compaction of hot mix asphalt |
Organise the erection of signposts |
Plan to conduct, repair and maintain work on un-surfaced road shoulders |
Repair/replace minor structures |
Set out control points for marking barrier lines and islands |
Set out control points for marking symbols |
Set out pipes, culverts and transfer levels |
Demonstrate an understanding and implement environmental initiatives on a construction project |
Organise and control the spraying of bitumen on road surfaces |