384 Pages 311 Color & 54 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

384 Pages 311 Color & 54 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

384 Pages 311 Color & 54 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Brickwork Level 1 has been adapted from John Hodges’s classic Brickwork for Apprentices – the established textbook on brickwork for bricklayers. Designed to meet new requirements of the City and Guilds bricklaying programmes, this book has been written to match the latest industry-based requirements and technical developments in the field, including recent changes to the Building Regulations.... Read more

Chapter 1: The Construction Industry (Residential)

Chapter 2: Health and Safety in the Construction Industry

Chapter 3: Communication

Chapter 4: Construction Technology

Chapter 5: Tools

Chapter 6: Preparing and Mixing Concrete and Mortar

Chapter 7: Setting out Basic Masonry Structures

Chapter 8: Laying Bricks to Line

Chapter 9: Laying Blockwork to Line

Chapter 10: Cavity Walling

Chapter 11: Joint Finishes

Chapter 12: Answers to Multiple-Choice Questions

Biography

Malcolm Thorpe is a Life Member of the Guild of Bricklayers and former Head of Construction at West Nottinghamshire College, UK. He has acted as a CITB adviser and was involved in the drafting of bricklaying programmes. He was a verifier for CITB and spent several years producing examination material for examining bodies. He also spent over thirty years designing and organising Guild of Bricklayers local and national bricklaying competitions.

Full account has been made to accommodate all updated information related to the different aspects of the latest syllabi laid-out for Bricklaying [NVQ Level 1] 

-- Gerard Lynch