Advanced Professional Certificate in construction (City and Guilds)
Unit 12: Practical setting-out and estimating for the owner manager -
Level 3
Unit Summary
This unit concerns the knowledge and skills for the owner manager, related to an understanding of:
- procedures for setting-out features of new construction from details recorded on a previously surveyed site
- unit rate pricing and elements of a model rate.
This unit is divided into ten outcomes which may be studied separately. Alternatively, you may use occupational evidence for accreditation of each outcome, separately or collectively.
Aims
This unit aims to enable the candidate to:
- gain a range of knowledge and practical skills required for setting-out and estimating in a working environment
- develop practical skills within the context of a construction process where they will be part of a total construction process
- integrate with and work with other sectors of the construction process particularly providing insight into overcoming everyday and specific difficulties encountered in the construction process.
Outcomes
On successful completion of the unit the candidate will be able to:
- set out a building and pipeline to line and level
- set out features of a construction site using co-ordinates
- set out horizontal road curves and batter rails using a theodolite and level
- prepare a method statement for a job
- identify resource requirements from a method statement
- produce model rates and net unit rates for construction related building and civil engineering work
- incorporate sub-contractors and nominated suppliers costs into unit rates
- identify components of overheads and incorporate general overheads and profit to produce gross unit rates
- explain the implications to an estimate of provisional sums, contingencies and dayworks
- draft a letter in an appropriate format to accompany an estimate in response to a customer or client enquiry.
Assessment
You will need to produce: a portfolio of work demonstrating a practical understanding of (i) setting-out procedures and (ii) estimating processes, for small building and civil engineering works. The portfolio of work must include:
- details of how information is abstracted from working drawings and used to produce calculations and other data required for setting-out buildings, roads and pipelines to line and level,
- details of instrumentation and equipment, techniques and processes used in the field for setting out buildings, roads and pipelines,
- details of how information is abstracted from working drawings and used to produce a method statement and calculate all-in unit rates,
- a completed method statement for representative sections of construction work,
- information showing the build-up of net unit rates and gross unit rates for building and civil engineering work using standard pro-formas.
The portfolio must contain written material, diagrams, sketches, calculations, field data, drawings and standard proforma.
This unit is assessed through a combination of your portfolio work and a written paper comprising short answer questions referenced to a test specification covering each of the ten outcomes of study.
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