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Blueprints are made up of highly-specialized notations that tell builders, machinists, electricians, engineers, and others exactly how items are assembled and what materials to use. Because they are needed to coordinate work across a wide spectrum of trades, learning to interpret these specifications is crucial. From a blueprint's basic elements to the distinct features of construction, electrical, manufacturing, and machining blueprints, this program gives viewers a detailed primer on types of blueprints and how they are read. Students will see graphics that illustrate what is meant by basic, auxiliary, and sectional views; discover how CAD is used to create blueprints; and learn which career fields benefit most from blueprint training programs
After checking the building code for specifications, it's time to add a ceiling to newly framed walls. This program takes students through the process of creating a ceiling frame to tie the walls together and provide the underlying structure for the installation of ducts, pipes, and insulation. Along with safety, tool, and green-building tips, it explains the essentials of laying out the ceiling frame and installing joists, with details on spacing, butting, splicing, the benefits of using engineered I joists, and more.
Subflooring forms a large platform that covers the entire width and length of a house, providing the necessary base on which to secure the walls. This program explains how to frame the floor of a new home using the platform framing method. Along with safety, tool, and green-building tips, students learn the basics of placing and anchoring sills, butting and splicing, installing beams and joists, spacing, bridging, and laying both tongue-and-groove and square-edge subflooring.
Roofs can be constructed in two different ways: the conventional joist and rafter method, or the more common trussed roof method that uses prefabricated units. This program covers both techniques for building a roof frame, while providing safety, tool, and green-building tips as well. Topics covered include common rafter layout (ridge, birdsmouth, and tail cuts), roof overhangs, installing the rafters, and installing the roof sheathing with notes about when to consider possible regional specifications.
Wall framing creates spaces for plumbing, electrical, and heating and cooling systems-and with the proper techniques, it can help cut energy consumption by allowing room for extra insulation. This program explains wall framing, with detailed information on chalking; cutting the stock plate; laying out the walls; cutting the lumber to size; preassembling the wall components; assembling, raising, bracing, and plumbing the walls; and nailing the cap plates. Tips on safety, tool use, and green building are provided throughout.
"Concrete Conservation" - cost-effective and environmentally-sound way to recycle concrete; "Dry-Laid Concrete" - concrete that doesn't need mixing, just pour the dry mix and roll flat; "Born-Again Concrete" - old concrete can now be recycled to make new, even stronger, ready-mixed concrete; "Electric Concrete" - Electro-conductive concrete conducts electricity, making it suitable for a variety of useful applications; "Fiberglass House" - architects have designed portable buildings, based on materials made from glass fiber reinforced with plastic; "Dean's Eye" - hi-tech double glazing is used to protect a 17th-century stained glass window; "Versalite" - a breakthrough in glass technology strengthens decorative glass, making it less expensive to manufacture.
Join an educational instructor in a lesson in safety and masonry techniques as students follow in selecting building materials and setting up guidelines. He stresses the consequences of poor workmanship and provides tips to create professional quality projects. This DVD also demonstrates the uses of concrete finishing tools to help in construction. A concrete expert shows how to use building techniques to form simple constructions, like a concrete slab. The course also includes informational steps for working with concrete.
Dr. Billy Harrell explains the steps for laying a foundation and subsequent flooring for a 16' X 10' portable building with demonstrations on how to lay floor joists, square a foundation and lay flooring. Students will view procedures on how to construct the framework and interior wall partitioning for a 16' X 10' wood storage building. This includes how to layout plates, make corners and tees, construct wall units, partitions, window and door units and headers. Step-by-step instructions are provided for cutting ceiling joists and rafters with demonstrations on proper techniques for some of the more exacting procedures ("lipping" a joist, cutting a "birdsmouth," marking a ridgeboard and assembling the rafters) necessary for beginning builders. During completion of the 16' X 10' portable building, you will learn proper techniques for laying a roof with discussions and demonstrations of the following roof construction steps: laying the roof deck, attaching metal flashing along the edges, rolling out and laying the roofing felt, marking the felt to prepare it for the asbestos shingles, and cutting a nailing composition shingles in an effective method and pattern.
In this DVD, expert Dr. Doug Ullrich, Jr., of Sam Houston State University will teach students about basic masonry, basic site evaluation, basic surveying and basic site development. Students will learn equipment identification, safety procedure and masonry techniques as he demonstrates how to build a brick wall and a block wall. Students will follow along as he selects the building material, sets up guide lines, mixes mortar, "butters" the bricks and blocks, lays row and explains clean-up procedures for building these standard structures. Using 3-D computer graphics, evaluation and surveying concepts are illustrated as the expert discusses equipment, field notes and other data collection and data analysis techniques. Students will observe pre-construction practices, view various stages of residential construction and examine developmental issues.
Farmers and ranchers have designed and constructed facilities for agricultural production for many years. However, have you ever considered building structures concuring with recycling and organic construction trends? This Microsoft PowerPoint
Computer-generated visual effects help illustrate surveying concepts often difficult to teach in a classroom setting, such as differential leveling and profile leveling. As the featured expert illustrates route surveying and the setting of property boundaries, he also discusses equipment, field notes, other data collection and data analysis techniques.
An experienced instructor explains the step-by-step processes involved in developing land for a home or business. Graphics and visual effects help illustrate the concepts as you travel to various sites. You will observe pre-construction practices, such as preparing public roads, providing for drainage, leveling the site and installing utility lines. You will briefly view various stages of residential construction: pouring the slab, framing, roofing, completing the walls, bricking the outside and landscaping. In addition, you will examine developmental issues, such as zoning classifications, urban sprawl and land usage.
Discusses the enclosing, finishing, and landscaping of structures, including reasons for enclosing and finishing (protection, comfort, convenience), elements of enclosing, finishing, and landscaping: enclosing the exterior, finishing the exterior, enclosing the interior, finishing the interior, installing accessories including electrical and plumbing fixtures and appliances, cabinets, countertops, etc., construction of pathways, and installing landscaping.
Covers the erecting of structures, including very detailed information on substructures (slab, spread, and pile foundations) and superstructures (sills, headers, joists, studs, roofs). Also contains a brief discussion of some alternative superstructures including examples of tensile structures and pneumatic structures.
Details the installation of utilities of all types: electrical communications, water, sewage, and natural gas. The process of installation for each type of utility is covered in depth, including the workers who perform the tasks, the specific tasks themselves, materials and components used, as well as an explanation of how the utilities operate, and the finishing stages of installation for each.
This video covers basic information on construction technology including a definition of construction, the project design, types of construction, the involvement of architects in the construction process, zoning laws, building codes, local covenants, site preparation, substructure and superstructure, building materials, installation of utilities, enclosing, and finishing.
Building on the overview information given in the first program, this program includes the duties of architects and engineers (design, construction materials and methods, choice, overseeing projects), elements of construction design (client's needs, developing rough designs, selecting the best design, refining the design, client presentation and approval), and elements of site preparation (removal of unnecessary objects, leveling the site, locating where the structure will go).
Building Construction Cost Data 2016 CD features unit costs for more than 24,000 building components. These costs are carefully prepared from the experience of thousands of contractors and suppliers and reflect the most up to date data for 2016!
"Caught-In/Between Hazards in Construction Environments" provide the information employees need to recognize the caught-in/between hazards that are associated with construction tasks and avoid them before accidents happen.
Topics covered in these products include:
What are caught-in/between hazards?
The three major types of caught-in/between hazards.
"Struck-By Hazards in Construction Environments" provide the information employees need to recognize the struck-by hazards that are associated with construction tasks and take steps to avoid them before accidents happen.
Topics covered in these products include:
What are struck-by hazards?
Personal protective equipment.
Traffic safety.
Heavy equipment.
Hand and power tools.
Masonry walls, overhead work and building materials.
Walking and Working Surfaces in Construction Environments training focuses on the unique slip, trip and fall hazards found on construction sites, including unfinished surfaces and structures... and provides employees with practical procedures to help them avoid these hazards.
Topics covered in the program include:
Construction's unique walking and working surface environment.