BOOK
BTEC Nationals Construction Student Book + Activebook
Simon Topliss | Mike Hurst | Simon Cummings | Sohrab Donyavi
(2017)
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Abstract
The Student Book and ActiveBook has clearly laid out pages with a range of supportive features to aid learning and teaching:
- Getting to know your unit sections ensure learners understand the grading criteria and unit requirements
- Getting ready for Assessment sections focus on preparation for external assessment with guidance for learners on what to expect. Hints and tips will help them prepare for assessment and sample answers are provided for a range of question types including, short and long answer questions, all with a supporting commentary. Learners can also prepare for internal assessment using this feature. A case study of a learner completing the internal assessment for that unit covering 'How I got started', 'How I brought it all together' and 'What I got from the experience'.
- Pause Point features provide opportunities for learners to self-evaluate their learning at regular intervals. Each Pause Point point feature gives learners a Hint or Extend option to either revisit and reinforce the topic or encourage independent research or further study skills.
- Case Study and Theory in Practice features enable development of problem-solving skills and place the theory into real life situations learners could encounter.
- Assessment Activity/Practice features provide scaffolded assessment practice activities that help prepare learners for formative assessment. Within each assessment practice activity, a Plan, Do and Review section encourages supports learners’ formative assessment by to making sure they fully understand what they are being asked to do, what their goals are and how to evaluate the task and consider how they could improve.
- Dedicated Think Future pages provide case studies from the industry, with a focus on aspects of skills development that can be put into practice in a real work environment and further study.
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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Front Cover | Front Cover | ||
Contents | iii | ||
Introduction | iv | ||
Chapter 1: Construction Principles | 1 | ||
A: Construction materials | 3 | ||
A1: Properties of materials | 3 | ||
A2/A3: Properties of construction materials and their manufacture and processing | 7 | ||
A4: Degradation of construction materials | 16 | ||
A5: Effects of temperature changes on construction materials | 21 | ||
A6: Behaviour of structural members under load | 21 | ||
B: Solving practical construction problems | 24 | ||
B1: Application of mathematical and statistical methods and techniques used in practical construction contexts | 24 | ||
C: Human comfort | 60 | ||
C1: Heat | 60 | ||
C2: Acoustics | 66 | ||
C3: Lighting | 71 | ||
Getting ready for assessment | 76 | ||
Sample answers | 76 | ||
Chapter 2: Construction Design | 79 | ||
A: The construction design process | 82 | ||
A1: Stages and tasks involved in the design process | 82 | ||
A2: Factors that influence the design process | 83 | ||
B: Project information and building design production | 98 | ||
B1: Project information | 98 | ||
B2: Initial project brief | 102 | ||
B3: Design production | 103 | ||
B4: Computer-aided design | 104 | ||
C: Construction methods and techniques | 107 | ||
C1: Forms of low- and medium-rise structures | 107 | ||
Types, characteristics and application of construction techniques | 109 | ||
C2/C3: Substructure and superstructure construction | 115 | ||
C4: Sustainability | 116 | ||
Getting ready for assessment | 130 | ||
Sample answers | 130 | ||
Chapter 3: Tendering and Estimating | 135 | ||
A: Commercial risk | 137 | ||
A1: Action on receipt of tender documentation | 137 | ||
A2: Tendering considerations and strategies | 142 | ||
A3: Contractual arrangements | 145 | ||
A4: Supply chain | 146 | ||
A5: Commercial risk analysis | 149 | ||
A6: Commercial intelligence | 153 | ||
B: Estimating | 154 | ||
B1: Materials and subcontract quotations | 155 | ||
B2: Site visit | 156 | ||
B3: Completion of the estimate | 156 | ||
B4/B5: Analysis of the estimate | 166 | ||
C: Commercial decisions | 167 | ||
C1: Application of risk analysis to make commercial decisions | 168 | ||
C2: Use of commercial intelligence | 169 | ||
C3: Tender adjudication and settlement meetings | 169 | ||
C4: Communication skills | 171 | ||
Getting ready for assessment | 173 | ||
Chapter 4: Construction Technology | 177 | ||
A: Understand common forms of low-rise construction | 180 | ||
A1: Forms of low-rise construction | 180 | ||
B: Examine foundation design and construction | 191 | ||
B1: Subsoil investigation | 191 | ||
B2: Subsoil improvement | 198 | ||
B3: Design principles | 199 | ||
B4: Types of foundation | 201 | ||
C: Examine superstructure design and construction | 203 | ||
C1: Walls | 203 | ||
C2: Floors | 206 | ||
C3: Roofs | 209 | ||
C4: Internal finishes | 211 | ||
D: Examine external works associated with construction projects | 213 | ||
D1: Foul and surface water drainage | 213 | ||
D2: Utility services | 214 | ||
D3: Roads and footpaths | 216 | ||
D4: Sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) | 219 | ||
Chapter 5: Health and Safety in Construction | 223 | ||
A: Understand how health and safety legislation is applied to construction operations | 226 | ||
A1: The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 | 226 | ||
A2: Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 | 228 | ||
A3: Management of Health and Safety at WorkRegulations 1999 | 232 | ||
A4: Work at Height Regulations 2005 | 232 | ||
A5: Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations 2002 | 236 | ||
A6: Training and education | 237 | ||
B: Carry out the development of a safe system of work for construction operations | 241 | ||
B1: Health and safety preparation | 241 | ||
B2: Construction phase health and safety | 243 | ||
B3: Health and safety file | 245 | ||
C: Understand the need for the review of safety systems for construction operations | 246 | ||
C1: Accident reporting procedures | 246 | ||
C2: Reviewing safety systems | 248 | ||
C3: Changes to systems and procedures | 251 | ||
C4: Skills, knowledge and behaviours | 253 | ||
Chapter 6: Surveying in Construction | 257 | ||
A: Understand the methods and technologies that underpin surveys | 260 | ||
A1: Linear, levelling and angular measurements | 260 | ||
A2: Equipment used to perform fieldwork surveys | 269 | ||
A3: Sources of systematic errors | 276 | ||
B: Undertake fieldwork surveys to collect data for drawings | 280 | ||
B1: Linear surveys | 281 | ||
B2/B3/B4: Levelling surveys, read and record horizontal angles of closed traverse and basic arithmetic operations | 282 | ||
B5: Application of appliedmathematical techniques | 288 | ||
C: Develop drawings from completed fieldwork surveys | 293 | ||
C1: Conventions used in survey drawings | 293 | ||
C2: Production of survey drawings | 294 | ||
C3: Corrected closed traverse drawing | 296 | ||
Chapter 7: Graphical Detailing in Construction | 301 | ||
A: Understand the resources required to produce construction drawings | 304 | ||
A1: Manual methods | 304 | ||
A2: Computer-aided design (CAD) | 314 | ||
A3: Comparison of manual and CAD methods of drawing | 322 | ||
B: Develop construction drawings for a given construction brief | 324 | ||
B1: Construction drawings | 324 | ||
Types of construction drawing | 325 | ||
C: Undertake production of two-dimensional and three dimensional freehand construction sketches | 332 | ||
C1: Principles, techniques and conventions | 332 | ||
C2: Freehand sketches | 336 | ||
C3: Skills, knowledge and behaviours | 338 | ||
Chapter 8: Building Regulations and Control in Construction | 343 | ||
A: Understand the requirements of the Building Regulations | 346 | ||
A1: The Building Regulations | 346 | ||
A2: Control and implementation of the Building Regulations | 347 | ||
B: Examine the requirements of the Building Regulations | 351 | ||
B1: Approved Documents | 351 | ||
B2: Alternative methods of achieving compliance | 359 | ||
C: Undertake a Building Regulations application | 360 | ||
C1: Types of application | 360 | ||
C2: Preparing a Building Notice application | 361 | ||
C3: Preparing a Full Plans application | 361 | ||
Chapter 9: Management of a Construction Project | 367 | ||
A: Understand the principles and application of management in construction | 370 | ||
A1: Principles of management | 370 | ||
A2: Application of construction management techniques | 381 | ||
B: Understand purchasing and cost management techniques | 389 | ||
B1: Application of purchasing methods | 389 | ||
B2: Cost management techniques | 394 | ||
C: Develop a programme of activities for construction works | 398 | ||
C1: Production control systems | 398 | ||
Chapter 10: Building Surveying in Construction | 405 | ||
A: Understand the impact of the methods used to construct existing buildings on current and future maintenance requirements | 408 | ||
A1: Different styles and types of residential property | 408 | ||
A2: Traditional methods of construction | 410 | ||
A3: Modern methods of construction | 420 | ||
B: Explore different defects and methods of repair for low-rise residential properties | 424 | ||
B1: Defects to the external envelope | 424 | ||
B2: Internal defects | 428 | ||
B3: Methods of repair and remediation | 429 | ||
C: Undertake a building survey of a low-rise residential property | 432 | ||
C1: Types of survey | 432 | ||
C2: Undertaking a building survey | 433 | ||
C3: Undertaking measured surveys | 434 | ||
C4: Skills, knowledge and behaviours | 436 | ||
Chapter 13: Measurement Techniques in Construction | 439 | ||
A: Examine the measurement rules for building and civil engineering | 442 | ||
A1: Introduction to taking off quantities | 442 | ||
A2: Standard methods of measurement | 444 | ||
B: Undertake the production of quantities for substructure and superstructure elements | 448 | ||
B1: Processes in the production of quantities | 448 | ||
B2: Production of substructure quantities for a building | 450 | ||
B3: Production of superstructure quantities for a building | 453 | ||
B4: Production of quantities for a civil engineering project | 456 | ||
C: Undertake the production of bills of quantities | 459 | ||
C1: Abstraction of quantities | 459 | ||
C2: The production of a bill of quantities for a building or civil engineering project | 460 | ||
Glossary | 465 | ||
Index | 469 |