This culminating course allows students to independently apply skills attained in previous courses. This course focuses on home building and remodeling regulations and standards in Alabama. Topics include requirements for licensing, filing, qualifications, fees, and exams. This course prepares students to take the state-licensing test. This course provides the student with technical knowledge to estimate construction materials and costs for preparing order sheets or bids on construction jobs.
Emphasis is placed on techniques for estimating jobs.
Upon completion, the student should be able to develop a comprehensive estimate for a carpentry job. This course focuses on the basic scheduling of projects. Topics include project definition, basic building blocks for scheduling, refining a schedule and communications. Upon completion, students are expected to understand the meaning and purpose of project planning and management, use of a schedule in management, and be able to communicate and coordinate work activities. This course introduces the student to software applications normally used by the construction specialist.