This Student Book supports the Edexcel BTEC Level 3 National Construction QCF specification for first teaching from September 2010.
BTEC and Heinemann have joined forces to bring you BTEC’s complete resources for BTEC Level 3 National Construction – by the BTEC team, for BTEC learners – to support you every step of the way to BTEC success.
Covers all mandatory and specialists units for the certificate in the Construction and the Built Environment pathway, and all the mandatory units for the award in all the pathways, giving you the breadth to tailor the course to your learners’ needs and interests.
This book offers:
Achieve your potential: Each unit contains assessment activities, with grading advice and extension tips, giving your students all the practice and guidance they need, to achieve the best possible grade they can.
Put yourself in the professionals’ shoes: WorkSpace case studies take your learners into the real world of work, showing them how they can apply their knowledge in a real-life context.
Advice from former students on how to make your learners’ BTEC experience a stepping stone to success.
Edexcel’s Assignment tips: Written by experts in the BTEC team, there’s invaluable unit-by-unit advice on how to get the most from your BTEC course.
Student focus: Straight-forward accessible language is used with short text chunks, keeping content engaging for learners.
Simon Topliss and Mike Hurst
They bring a wealth of experience to their writing. They have expertise of verifying, specification writing, teaching and developming resources and publications across Construction qualifications and bring you a wide range of engaging and motivating BTEC resources for the 2010 specifications.
Contents Listing
Unit 1 Health, safety and welfare in construction and the built environment
Unit 2 Sustainable construction
Unit 3 Maths in construction and the built environment
Unit 4 Science and materials in construction and the built environment
Unit 5 Construction technology and design and construction and civil engineering
Unit 6 Building technology in construction
Unit 7 Planning, organisation and control of resources in construction and the built environment
Unit 8 Graphical detailing in construction and the built environment
Unit 9 Measuring, estimating and tendering processes in construction and the built environment
Unit 10 Surveying in construction and civil engineering
Unit 15 Building surveying in construction
Unit 17 Building regulations and control in construction
