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 |