Earning Criteria

• This person has successfully demonstrated all of the knowledge and practical competencies required to achieve the Skills Proficiency Certificate in Shuttering.
• They can select, use, clean and store setting out and marking out tools and equipment Marking out Tools: Try square, mitre square, combination square, sliding bevel, marking gauge, marking knife, mortise gauge, compasses, dividing compasses, box square, miter template, dovetail template, tape measure, rule Equipment: Portable power planer, power saw, drilling machine. Select, use, clean and store hand tools to produce joints Hand Tools: Saws, plane, chisels (bevel edge, firmer, mortise).
• They can interpret information provided in the formwork drawings Information: views, scales, specifications and abbreviations, types and components. Safely assemble formwork components for conventional and system formworks Formwork foundation, column, straight wall, tie beams, beams and slabs Assemble: Select materials, tools and equipment to produce shutters (beam shutters, straight shutters, column shutters, beam bottom shutters); measure, mark out, cut panels; assemble panels.