BCTI 123 - Heavy Highway Construction Part 2

1. Explain the selection and uses of different types of reinforcing materials. Describe requirements for bending, cutting, splicing, and tying reinforcing steel and the placement of steel in footings and foundations, walls, columns, and beams and girders.
2. Analyze the safety concerns associated with concrete, as well as concrete testing, concrete admixtures, and the proper procedures for placing concrete.
3. Identify the materials used in steel-framed structures, and explain how to read basic structural blueprints.
4. Discuss the types of construction that utilize structural steel, the components of the structures, and the process involved in erecting a steel structure. Explain the principles of structural stresses and the requirements of bolted connections.
5. Describe the common types of bridges, along with the components that make up the substructure and superstructure of a bridge. Also discuss the types of materials used in bridge construction, basic surveying equipment and practices, and how to interpret bridge drawings.
6. Describe the types of footings used to support bridges, as well as various types of piles and pile-driving methods. Also discuss safety practices associated with pile driving on land and in marine environments, along with environmental protection issues.
7. Identify the forms used to fabricate concrete walls, columns, footings, pile caps, and other bridge structures. Also discuss site-built and manufactured forming systems along with instructions for cleaning and storing forms.
8. Attain readiness to take the second half of the NCCER Heavy Highway Construction Level 2 certification exams.

• Reinforcing Concrete
• Working with Concrete
• Trade Drawings
• Structural Ironworking
• Bridge Construction
• Bridge Foundations
• Bridge Formwork

MANDATORY LABORATORY ACTIVITIES:

1. Use appropriate tools to cut and bend reinforcing bars.
2. Demonstrate five types of ties for reinforcing bars, along with proper lap splicing.
3. Demonstrate the proper placement, spacing, tying, and support for reinforcing bars.
4. Identify job plans and drawings used for iron working jobs.
5. Identify ornamental ironwork, general symbols, and welding symbols and applications on iron working job plans and drawings.
6. Describe different uses for structural steel.
7. Identify selected types, shapes, and grades of structural steel, including types of structural steel beams.
8. Make bolted connections on structural steel.
9. Use a bridge plan to explain the details of a project, and perform layout based on a plan sheet.
10. Lay out pile locations according to foundation drawings.
11. Create templates in accordance with provided drawings.
12. Perform a material takeoff for concrete formwork.
13. Build a small cap form at least 4’ x 3’ with headers, and include a beam seat, anchor bolts, and pipe blockout.

 
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