Layout, Foundations, & Framing

Catalog description

Covers first phases of residential and light commercial construction processes with focus placed on layout, rough framing principles, techniques, and skills. Students will construct simple structures on campus from basic architectural plans, beginning with building layout surveying, forming foundations ground floor construction, including both raised foundations and slabs on grade; progressing through floor framing, walls, door and window openings, stairs, second floor framing; and concluding with framing flat and sloped roofs, hip, valley, gable, eave, and parapet details. [CSU]