WAEC Syllabus for Block Laying, Brick Laying And Concrete Works

WAEC Syllabus for Block Laying, Brick Laying And Concrete Works. WAEC Syllabus for Block Laying, Brick Laying And Concrete Works is available for all candidates who want to participate in the examination. The West African examination council (WAEC) has officially introduced a syllabus that will guide all the WAEC candidates who wish to write the WAEC examination this year. For a very successful Block Laying, Brick Laying And Concrete Works examination for this year, you need to check out the available areas of concentration. It has been divided into sections with chapters, followed by the topics to be covered in preparation for the exams. In the WAEC Block Laying, Brick Laying And Concrete Work syllabus, you will also see the format of how the WAEC Block Laying, Brick Laying And Concrete Work questions will be presented. Jamb form

There are always 3 sections to answer questions from. Paper 1 is objective, paper 2 contains essay questions and paper 3 is practical’s. Where paper one (1) carries 45 minutes for 40 marks; paper two (2) carries 1 hour for 60 marks while paper three (3) carries 3 hours duration for 100 marks.

This WAEC syllabus is for both the O’level WAEC and General Certificate Examination (GCE) candidates. Final year students in the senior secondary school level and external candidates are eligible to make use of this syllabus and prepare ahead of the examination.

See the full detailed information concerning the WAEC Block Laying, Brick Laying And Concrete Works Syllabus below.

EXAMINATION SCHEME

There will be three papers, Papers 1, 2 and 3 all of which must be taken.Papers 1 and 2 shall be a composite paper to be taken at one sitting in 1 hour 45 minutes for 100 marks.

Paper 1: will consist of forty multiple-choice objective questions all of which are to be answered in 45 minutes for 40 arks.

Paper 2: will consist of five short-structured questions. Candidates will be required to answer any four in 1 hour for 60 marks.

Paper 3 will be a practical test of 3 hours duration for 100 marks. It will be a work

piece involving laying of a total number of blocks not exceeding 30 and where the work piece is made of bricks only, the total number of bricks shall not exceed 100.

Where the work piece to be laid is a combination of bricks and blocks, this will not contain more than 20 blocks and 40 bricks. (i.e. in composite walling).

A list of materials for the test shall be made available to schools not less than two weeks before the paper is taken for material procurement and relevant preparations.

Alternative to Practical Test

Alternatively, in the event that materials for the actual practical test cannot be acquired, the Council may consider testing theoretically, candidates’ level of acquisition of the practical skills prescribed in the syllabus. For this alternative test, there will be two compulsory questions to be answered in 3 hours for 100 marks.

DETAILED SYLLABUS

S/NO.	CONTENT	NOTES
1.	Workshop and site safety	(i) Various safety rules at work site. (ii) First aids. (iii) Purpose of safety. (iv) Safety regulations (scaffolding, electrical, installations, etc) (v) Protective wears.
2	Basic tools and equipment	(i) Identification of basic hand tools for blocklaying, bricklaying and concreting including site preparation and levelling tools, finishing tools. (ii) Sketching of basic hand tools. (iii) Uses of basic hand tools and equipment. (iv) Simple maintenance of basic tools and equipment.
3	Site preparations and setting – out	(i) Tools and equipment used for site preparation. (ii) Clearing of building site. (iii) Methods of setting out. (iv) Setting out tools and materials.
4.	Manufacture, application and properties of blocks and bricks.	(i) Manufacturing processes of blocks and bricks. (ii) Types of bricks and blocks (iii) Materials used for blocks and bricks (sand, lime, cement, clay, laterite and water).
5.	Concreting materials	(i) Various constituents of concrete (ii) Cement – Types of cement (iii) Definition of Fine and coarse aggregates and their differences. (iv) Storage of concrete materials.
6	Formwork for construction work.	(i) Functions and functional requirements of formwork. (ii) Materials used for formwork. (iii) Advantages of steel and timber formworks. (iv) Construction of formworks for concrete floor slabs, beams, columns, arches lintels and staircase. (v) Erection and striking of formworks.
S/NO.	CONTENT	NOTES
7	Concreting operations	(i) Mix proportions. (Cement – aggregate ratio; water-cement ratio). (ii) Stages in concreting (Batching, mixing, transporting, placing, curing). (iii) Methods of transporting wet concrete. (iv) Testing of concrete. (v) Properties of concrete. (vi) Methods of making construction joints in concrete elements. (Beams, columns, concrete roofs and slab). (vii) Need for concrete reinforcement. (viii) Methods of reinforcing concrete elements (ix) Types of steel reinforcement bars. (x) Casting and curing of concrete structures (in-situ and precast concrete).
8	Basic principles of substructure construction work including ground floors	(i) Types of soil. (ii) Definitions of site and soil investigation. (iii) Definitions of bearing capacity of soil. (iv) Definition of foundation, types and uses. (v) Definitions of ground floors, types, uses and construction. (vi) Materials for d.p.c. and d.p.m. (vii) Differences between d.p.c. and d.p.m. (viii) Methods of placing and positioning d.p.c. in walls.
9	Upper floors	(i) Functions and types of floors. (ii) Methods of floor construction. (iii) Types of flooring and their applications.
10	Walls	(i) Functions and types of walls. (ii) Walling materials. (iii) Common bonds in brick/block walls. (iv) Mortar (types, mixing methods and ratios). (v) Differences between pointing and jointing. (vi) Types of pointing and jointing.
S/NO.	CONTENT	NOTES
11	Openings in walls.	(i) Functions and types of openings. (ii) Materials used for lintels, beams, and arches (iii) Windows and doors – functions and types of windows and doors. – materials for windows and doors. – methods of fixing. (iv) Ironmongery for doors and windows.
12	Stairs construction	(i) Types of stair. (ii) Construction of a straight flight stair.
13	Scaffold and scaffolding	(i) Types of scaffolds. (ii) Scaffold components. (iii) Hoisting equipment. (iv) Safety regulation.
14	Finishes	(i) Types of finishes. (ii) Types of finishing materials. (iii) Characteristics of finishing materials. (iv) Uses of finishing materials (v) Care and maintenance of finishes.
15	Construction of drainage system.	(i) Principles of good drainage system. (ii) Types of a drainage system. (iii) Differences between a sewer and a drain. (iv) Simple sketches of septic-tank; soakaway pit, inspection chamber, manhole and cesspool. (v) Surface drainage. (vi) Method of laying drain pipes to a specified gradient.
16	Kerbs	(i) Functions and types of kerbs. (ii) Materials used in production of kerbs. (iii) Methods of laying precast concrete kerbs.
17	Business opportunities in Building	(i) Opportunities in building industry. (ii) Procedures for establishing businesses in the industry. (iii) Requirements for managing construction business (iv) Estimating the cost of construction jobs. (v) Principles and techniques of Book-keeping.

LIST OF TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT

TOOLS EQUIPMENT

Internal angle trowel 1. A complete set of scaffolding, fittings and scaffolding pipes
External angle trowels 2. Block moulding machines
Pointing trowel 3. Buckets
Hand trowel 4. Concrete mixer
Block axe 5. Concrete vibrator (Poker and

clamp-on)

Boat level 6. Gauge box
Bolster 7. Manual hand mould
Club hammer 8. Hand rammer
Builders square 9. Hand sieves (various sizes)
Brick hammer 10. Headpan
Cold chisel 11. Levelling instrument
Corner blocks 12. Measuring tape
Folding rule 13. Pick axe
Gauge rod or rule 14. Slump test apparatus.
Hawk 15. Tyrolean machine
Joint duster 16. Water hoses and roses
Jointers 17. Wheelbarrow.
Jointing board/caulking board 18. Terrazzo grinding machine
Line and pin
Mason’s hand saw
Metal float
Plastering trowel
Plumb rule and bob
Builder’s line
Spade
Shovel
Claw hammer
Gauge lath
Pointing tools
Pointing trowel
Range.
Spirit level.
Steel square
Straight edge
Skutch
Square and bevel
Tingle plate
Wire brush
Wooden float.

SUGGESTED READING LIST

S/NO.	TITLE OF BOOK	AUTHOR	PUBLISHER
1	Barry’s introduction to construction of Buildings	Stephen Emmett and Christopher A Gorse	Blackwell Publishing.
2	Building Technology	Ivor H. Seeley	Palgrave
3	Building Construction, Volumes 1 – 4	Mckay	Longman
4	Principles of construction	Roger Greeno.
5	Advanced Building Construction Volumes 1 & 2	C. M. H. Baritt.	Longman
6	Construction Technology Volumes 1 – 4	R. Chudley.	Longman
7	Building Construction for Senior Secondary Schools. Volumes 1 – 3	L. A. Adesokan and M. O. Adeniyi.	Ilesanmi
8	Blocklaying and concreting Industrial Crafts Series	M. O. Obande	Longman
9	Brickwork Volume 1 – 3	W. G. Nash