Levelling and setting out (2 days)

This two-day training course is for workers whose job involves using automatic or laser levels for measuring and setting out of construction elements.

This course is a companion to the three-day Total Station for Construction course.

Who should attend

Suitable for:

• Trainee engineers
• Graduate engineers
• Construction managers
• Site managers who would like to be able to supervise, recruit for, check or carry out levelling activities
• People with direct experience of the construction industry who would like to broaden their skills to include levelling and setting out by tape.

Course content

This course teaches the principles of levelling and setting out by tape which can be applied to all aspects of construction including earthworks, roads, buildings, foundations, piles, structural steel, structures, reinforced concrete, houses.

Actual construction drawings are used for all practical exercises.

Levelling

By the end of the course, delegates will be able to:

• Record work correctly and in the industry standard way
• Incorporate robust checks to all levelling
• List the sources of error in levelling
• Carry out a level survey (existing features or as-built)
• Check that the level is in correct calibration
• Set elements to a fixed level
• Measure the reduced level of ceilings and soffits
• Transfer TBMs (install temporary benchmarks from scratch)
• Set up profile boards for level excavation.

Taping

By the end of the course, delegates will be able to:

• List the sources of error in taping
• Incorporate checks when setting out using a tape measure
• Set out on sloping ground using a tape measure
• Set out right angles and rectangles using a tape measure.

Qualifications you get

• CITB National Construction College Certificate.