Skills
Protect Self and Others
- Apply safety legislation
- Use personal protective equipment
- Apply safety measures in the shop and on the job site
- Apply prescribed procedures at an accident or a hazard
- Apply fire safety practices
- Construct ladders
- Set up ladders
- Work on ladders
- Maintain ladders
- Use rigging equipment
- Use swing stages
- Use powered elevated work platforms
- Use spiders and bosun chairs
Operate Tools and Equipment
- Use hand tools
- Operate portable power tools
- Operate stationary power tools and equipment
- Design jigs and templates
- Use pre-fabricated and fabricated jigs and templates
Establish Building Procedures
- Perform trade-related calculations
- Prepare sketches
- Use plans and sketches
- Communicate with co-workers, supervisors and tradespersons
- Apply trade-related and spoken information
- Establish procedures for installing premanufactured materials or equipment
- Manage work site
- Estimate material
Prepare Site for Building
- Prepare site for layout
- Lay out buildings according to plot and foundation plans
- Lay out piling and caissons for foundations and shore protection
- Install piling and caissons for foundations and shore protection
- Install shoring for trench, road and building stabilization
- Prepare ground for preserved wood foundation (PWF) and slab on grade
- Install underpinning
- Plan access and egress on job site
Execute Form Work
- Lay out embedded steel
- Lay out embedded steel
- Lay out embedded steel
- Lay out footing forms
- Construct footing forms
- Install footing forms
- Lay out forms for columns, piers and capitals
- Construct forms for columns, piers and capitals
- Install forms for columns, piers, and capitals
- Lay out wall forms
- Construct wall forms
- Install wall forms
- Lay out templates to receive dowels and anchor bolts
- Build templates to receive dowels and anchor bolts
- Lay out beam an girder forms
- Construct beam and girder forms
- Install beam and girder forms
- Lay out shoring
- Construct shoring
- Install shoring
- Lay out suspended slab forms
- Install suspended slab forms
- Lay out slab-on-grade
- Install slab-on-grade
- Lay out stair forms
- Construct stair forms
- Install stair forms
- Lay out forms for ramps and runways
- Construct forms for ramps and runways
- Install forms for ramps and runways
- Lay out slip forms
- Construct slip forms
- Install slip forms
- Lay out various movable wall form systems
- Construct various movable wall form systems
- Install various movable wall form systems
- Lay out forms to encase structural steel
- Build forms to encase structural steel
- Install forms to encase structural steel
- Lay out insulated concrete forms
- Construct insulated concrete forms
- Install insulated concrete forms
- Strip concrete forms
- Perform slump test on concrete
- Re-shore completed structures
- Store forms
- Place concrete
- Consolidate concrete
- Finish concrete
- Control rate of curing concrete
- Lay out locations of pre-cast systems and pre-stressed concrete
- Install pre-cast systems and pre-stressed concrete
- Lay out grout forms
- Construct grout forms
- Install grout forms
Frame Roofs and Ceilings
- Lay out equal slope roofs
- Construct equal pitch roofs
- Install equal pitch roofs
- Lay out ceiling joists and backing
- Install ceiling joists and backing
- Lay out unequal pitch roofs
- Construct unequal pitch roofs
- Install equal and unequal pitch roofs
- Lay out pre- engineered site- built trusses
- Construct pre- engineered site- built trusses
- Lay out manufactured trusses
- Install manufactured trusses
- Lay out a roof system for dormer openings
- Construct dormer openings
- Install dormer openings
- Lay out dormers
- Construct dormers
- Install dormers
- Lay out a roof system for skylight openings
- Construct skylight openings
- Install skylight openings
- Lay out flat roofs
- Construct flat roofs
- Install flat roofs
- Lay out ornamental roofs
- Construct ornamental roofs
- Install ornamental roofs
- Install roof substrate components
Construct Heavy Faming
- Lay out heavy floor framing
- Construct heavy floor framing
- Install heavy floor framing and lay floor planking
- Lay out wood post and beam components
- Construct wood post and beam components
- Install wood post and beam components
- Lay out roof frame for post and beam structure
- Construct roof frame for post and beam structure
- Install roof frame for post and beam structure
- Lay out wall fill-in for post and beam structure
- Construct wall fill- in for post and beam structure
- Install wall fill-in for post and beam structure
- Lay out timber trusses
- Construct timber trusses
- Install timber trusses
- Lay out position of trusses on a wall
- Lay out ramps, runways, chutes, splash-boards, and bents (trestles)
- Construct ramps, runways, chutes, splash-boards, and bents (trestle)
- Install ramps, runways, chutes, splash-boards, and bents (trestles
- Lay out pole barns
- Construct pole barns
Build Stairs
- Lay out straight stairs
- Construct straight stairs
- Install straight stairs
- Lay out landings for stairs
- Construct landings for stairs
- Install landings for stairs
- Lay out winder stairs
- Construct winder stairs
- Install winder stairs
- Lay out pre-fabricated stairs
- Construct pre- fabricated stairs
- Install pre- fabricated stairs
- Lay out newel posts, handrails and balustrades
- Construct newel posts, handrails and balustrades
- Install newel posts, handrails and balustrades
Install Doors, Frames and Hardware
- Lay out frames and movable partitions
- Construct frames and movable partitions
- Install frames and movable partitions
- Lay out door systems
- Construct door systems
- Install door systems
- Lay out overhead doors, rollup shutters and roll-up doors
- Install overhead doors, rollup shutters and roll-up doors
- Lay out manual and electrical- activated hardware
- Install manual and electrical-activated hardware
Install Windows
- Install exterior window systems
- Lay out interior windows
- Construct interior windows
- Install interior windows
Install Exterior Finishing Materials
- Lay out vertical trim
- Construct horizontal and vertical trim
- Install horizontal and vertical trim
- Lay out millwork
- Construct millwork
- Install millwork
- Lay out pre- fabricated kitchens, bathrooms, vanities and countertops
- Install pre- fabricated kitchens, bathrooms, vanities and countertops
- Lay out wood, composite and other manufactured finished and unfinished floors and accessories, underlay, and special base preparations
- Construct wood, composite and other manufactured finished and unfinished floors and accessories, underlay, and special base preparations
- Install wood, composite and other manufactured finished and unfinished floors and accessories, underlay, and special base preparations
- Lay out demountable wall systems
- Construct demountable wall systems
- Install demountable wall systems
- Dismantle demountable wall systems
- Lay out arena seating
- Construct arena seating
- Install arena seating
- Select materials to receive finishes
- Lay out interior hardware
- Install interior hardware
Perform Landscape and Site Work
- Lay out fences, guard rails, blast walls, protective barriers, sound barriers and retaining walls
- Construct fences, guard rails, blast walls, protective barriers, sound barriers and retaining walls
- Install fences, guard rails, blast walls, protective barriers, sound barriers and retaining walls
- Lay out benches and timber steps
- Construct benches and timber steps
- Install benches and timber steps
- Lay out docks, piers, bridges and gazebos
- Construct docks, piers, bridges and gazebos
- Install docks, piers, bridges and gazebos
- Lay out traffic and pedestrian control
- Construct traffic and pedestrian control
- Install traffic and pedestrian control
- Lay out recreational site components
- Construct recreational site components
- Install recreational site components
Perform Renovations
- Protect existing structures
- Remove interior finishes and exterior finishes
- Alter existing structures
- Lay out new structural components
- Construct new structural components
- Install new structural components
Erect and Dismantle Scafolds
- Lay out wood scaffolds
- Construct wood scaffolds
- Install wood scaffolds
- Dismantle wood scaffolds
- Lay out sectional frame access scaffolding
- Construct sectional frame access scaffolding
- Install sectional frame access scaffolding
- Dismantle sectional frame access scaffolding
- Lay out rolling scaffolding
- Construct rolling scaffolding
- Dismantle rolling scaffolding
- Lay out tube and clamp scaffolding
- Construct tube and clamp scaffolding
- Install tube and clamp scaffolding
- Dismantle tube and clamp scaffolding
- Lay out system scaffolding
- Construct system scaffolding
- Install system scaffolding
- Dismantle system scaffolding
- Construct hanging scaffolds
Cut and Weld Mild Steel
- Cut mild steel using quick cut, grinder, metal cut- off saw and reciprocating saw
- Set up oxy-fuel cutting equipment
- Cut mild steel with oxy-fuel equipment
- Set up shielded metal arc welding equipment
- Prepare for welding
- Weld with the shielded metal arc welding (SMAW) process
Protect the Environment
- Reduce waste production
- Reuse materials
- Recycle waste materials
- Prevent toxic spills and emissions
For more information, see Ontario College of Trades Training Standards
