Course Summary
Course Category:
This programme has been designed to enable participants to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to indentify tools, materials and structural components used in the construction of hard landscape features using soil, concrete, brick, block, stone and timber. On this programme participants will learn how to prepare foundations including digging and laying of hardcore correctly and the preparation of concreted both by hand or machine to specified requirements.
On completion participants will be able to con-struct flat features, lay an area with slabs of paving blocks, build a small wall with block, brick or stone and erect post and rail fence, pergola, trellis or area of decking.
Course Details
What will you study?
Progression to CAO Courses
The Student - Career Interests
This course is typically suited for people with the following Career Interests:
Naturalist
Not surprisingly, some aspect of the natural sciences will run through the Naturalist's interests - from ecological awareness to nutrition and health. People with an interest in horticulture, land usage and farming (including fish) are Naturalists.
Some Naturalists focus on animals rather than plants, and may enjoy working with, training, caring for, or simply herding them. Other Naturalists will prefer working with the end result of nature's produce - the food produced from plants and animals. Naturalists like solving problems with solutions that show some sensitivity to the environmental impact of what they do. They like to see practical results and prefer action to talking and discussing.
