Program Description:
The Building and Ground maintenance Program is designed to provide persons with a broad base of knowledge, practical skills and attitudes which are fundamental and which are required for obtaining/performing entry level jobs at the work place. These fundamental competencies are also the basis on which higher level training program in the Building and Grounds Mainte-nance are built and persons who successfully complete this course will be eligible for entry into such programs.
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This program entails: Air Conditioning, Electrical, Carpentry, Masonry, Plumbing and Grounds Maintenance.
Building and Grounds Maintenance
Program Objectives
Course Outline
ï‚· Understanding the career opportunities and some laws governing the occupation;
ï‚· Describe the factors related to trade and professional ethics;
ï‚· Understand and discuss the role work ethics play in developing good customer relations;
ï‚· Appreciate the improtance of ethics in the workplace;
ï‚· Use electrical test instruments such as voltmeter, ammeter, ohmmeter;
ï‚· Use Air-Conditioning special tools such as leak detectors, manifold gauge and pocket thermometers;
ï‚· Install Air Conditioning
ï‚· Perform maintenance duties for air conditioning.
ï‚· Plumbing Maintenance
ï‚· Introduction to Building Maintenance Industry
ï‚· Professional Relationship
ï‚· Safety
ï‚· Preparing Materials using Hand and Power Tools
ï‚· Preparing and working with Masonry Materials
ï‚· Laying Out and Preparing Foundation
ï‚· Preparing and Placing Concrete to form Concrete Structures
ï‚· Erecting and Dismantling Scaffolding
ï‚· Maintenance Plumbing
ï‚· Joining Plastic Pipes
ï‚· Joining Copper Pipes
ï‚· Joining Steel Pipes
ï‚· Maintaining & Repairing Valves, Traps and Waste Pipes
ï‚· Air-Conditioning Maintenance
ï‚· Providing Maintenance care for floors, win-dows, doors and restrooms
ï‚· Applying Interior and Exterior surface to Building