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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.

This program entails: Air Conditioning, Electrical, Carpentry, Masonry, Plumbing and Grounds Maintenance.

Building and Grounds Maintenance

Program Objectives

Course Outline

 Understanding the career opportunities and some laws governing the occupation;

 Describe the factors related to trade and professional ethics;

 Understand and discuss the role work ethics play in developing good customer relations;

 Appreciate the improtance of ethics in the workplace;
 Use electrical test instruments such as voltmeter, ammeter, ohmmeter;

 Use Air-Conditioning special tools such as leak detectors, manifold gauge and pocket thermometers;

 Install Air Conditioning

 Perform maintenance duties for air conditioning.

 Plumbing Maintenance

 Introduction to Building Maintenance Industry

 Professional Relationship

 Safety

 Preparing Materials using Hand and Power Tools

 Preparing and working with Masonry Materials

 Laying Out and Preparing Foundation

 Preparing and Placing Concrete to form Concrete Structures

 Erecting and Dismantling Scaffolding

 Maintenance Plumbing

 Joining Plastic Pipes

 Joining Copper Pipes

 Joining Steel Pipes

 Maintaining & Repairing Valves, Traps and Waste Pipes

 Air-Conditioning Maintenance

 Providing Maintenance care for floors, win-dows, doors and restrooms

 Applying Interior and Exterior surface to Building