Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

• Lay out a building site
• Construct forms for footings, foundations, and flatwork
• Pour and finish footings, foundations, and flatwork
• Stamp and color decorative concrete

Learners will individually demonstrate the understanding of basic concepts in residential concrete construction by the following:
1. Collaboratively complete the various hands on field projects.
2. Satisfactorily complete individual classroom concrete estimating projects.
3. Learners will display their skills by individually completing two mastery projects.
 

Themes, issues and concepts:
Concrete materials
Concrete tools
Building codes
Construction math
Concrete hardware
Site preparation
Foundation layout
Concrete forming
Concrete testing
Placing concrete
Concrete curing
Concrete finishing

Concrete reinforcing

Decorative concrete
Process skills:

1.           Use a transit to establish building corners

2.           Erect batter boards and string lines to determine the   foundation    building lines.

3.      Build formwork for various footing types.

4.      Pour footings.

5.      Build formwork for various wall types.

6.      Pour walls.

7.      Install various concrete accessories such as beam pockets, vents, anchor bolts, footing, drains and miscellaneous hardware.

8.      Build formwork for concrete landing and stair on grade.

9.      Pour stairs.

10. Build formwork for concrete slab.

11. Pour slab.

12. Apply different finishes to slab including exposed aggregate, smooth trowel, and broom.

13. Cut, bend and install various types of reinforcing steel.

14. Understand concrete placing and curing.

15. Understand the basic properties of concrete materials and testing procedures.

16. Data analysis

17. Critical thinking

18. Problem solving