Certificate II in Building and Construction

(Carpentry Pre-Apprenticeship)

Campus: Broadmeadows
Day: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday

This VET program:

  • provides participants with the knowledge and skills to achieve competencies that will enhance their employment prospects in the building and construction or building and construction related industries.
  • enables participants to gain a recognised credential and to make informed choices in relation to vocation and career paths.

Sample modules (Units 1 - 4)

  • Workplace safety and industry induction
  • Workplace procedures for environmental sustainability
  • Basic first aid
  • Building structures
  • Calculations for the building industry
  • Introduction to scaffolding
  • Levelling
  • Quality principles for the building industry
  • Safe handling of plant and power tools
  • Carpentry hand tools
  • Workplace documents and plans
  • Basic setting out
  • Sub floor framing
  • Wall framing
  • Roof framing
  • External cladding
  • Installation of door and window frames
  • Introduction to demolition
  • Career studies
  • Communications for the building industry
  • Carpentry power tools
  • Interior Fixing
  • Formwork for Concrete

Future pathways

Future career opportunities

  • Carpenter
  • Joiner
  • Construction worker
  • Building site administrator
  • Project manager
  • Building inspector

NB: On successful completion of this program students will have completed two thirds of the Certificate II in Building and Construction (Carpentry) Pre-Apprenticeship. Students will have the opportunity to complete the full Certificate II after successfully completing the VET program.

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