1. Caring for/cleaning/safely using tools, measuring devices and woodworking machinery. 2. Identifying trade materials and their uses.

1. Building and placing straight concrete forms; irregular concrete forms; concrete forms for footings, stairways, floors, walls, and columns. 2. Stripping and salvaging forms for reuse. 3. Locating and erecting forms for ground-mounted solar collector systems (optional)*.

Framing floors, walls, roofs, stairs, scaffolding – on both house and heavy construction 1. Laying out mud sills or plates for anchoring. 2. Placing girders or beams. 3. Installing sills. 4. Placing and bracing girder posts. 5. Installing and bridging floor joists. 6. Laying out stairwell. 7. Laying sub-floors. 8. Laying out story-poles 9. Constructing, installing and bracing wall frames. 10.Trimming for openings. 11.Framing and placing ceiling joists. 12.Framing roofs, laying roof decking. 13.Roof covering (if in keeping with area practice). 14.Building and erecting scaffolding. 15.Using builder’s level.

Laying out Batterboards, partitions, doors and windows, boxout in concrete walls, stairs and roofs.

1. Putting on insulation board or housewrap for all types of walls (if in keeping with area practices) 2. Laying out and installing door frames and jambs. 3. Laying out and installing window frames. 4. Fitting and sanding doors and windows. 5. Applying exterior door and window trim and hardware. 6. Applying insulation (if in keeping with area practice). 7. Cutting and installing water tables. 8. Constructing and applying all types of cornice and soffit. 9. Finishing gable ends. 10.Constructing verge or bargeboards. 11.Installing gutters (if in keeping with area practice). 12.Constructing and setting columns. 13.Constructing and setting newels and railings. 14.Constructing porches and entrance canopies. 15.Applying outside wallcoverings (if in keeping with area practice). 16.Laying out, constructing, and setting louvers. 17.Installing other exterior trim. 18.Applying all hardware and fittings to outside of building.

1. Fitting, sanding, installing doors and windows. 2. Applying interior door and window trim. 3. Applying hardware and fittings to interior of building, doors and windows. 4. Applying baseboards and moldings. 5. Applying interior trim. 6. Constructing and setting cupboards, cabinets and wardrobes. 7. Constructing and setting stair work. 8. Preparing sub-floor and applying finished wood floorings. 9. Laying other types of finished flooring ( if in keeping with area practice).

1. Ceilings – Laying out, cutting, assembling and installing materials and component parts: hangers, channels, furring and backing boards a. bars: main tees, cross tees, splines stiffeners and braces. b. ceiling angles or moldings c. finish ceiling materials 2. Walls and Partitions – Laying out, cutting,assembling, erecting, applying materials and component parts: a. floor and ceiling runners. b. studs (wood and metal), stiffeners, bracing, fireblocking. c. resilient and furring channels. d. laying out, framing, enclosing vents, light wells, other openings. e. wall angles and moldings. f. soffit work. g. drywall installation on metal framing. h. studless and laminated installations. i. thermal and sound insulation ( if in keeping with area practice). j. backing and finish materials. k. fireproofing columns, beams and chases

1. Welding as it applies to the trade. 2. Safely conducting oxyacetylene cutting operations.

1. Knowing various types of materials and their uses. 2. Laying out, cutting, welding and installing

1. Abating asbestos. 2. Handling and disposing of other hazardous materials.

1. Identifying Piledriving equipment: hammers, leads, rigging, motors and pumps. 2. Rigging and signaling 3. Driving of piles: wood, concrete, steel, etc 4. Cofferdams and caissons 5. Bridge, dock and wharf construction 6. Welding 7. Diving and diver tending

1. Rigging and signaling. 2. Ensuring conformity of design and materials to blueprints, plans and specifications. 3. Building walkways. 4. Erecting shoring. 5. Building sheds. 6. Building weather protection devices and structures. 7. Erecting fencing.

1. Accident Prevention, Fall Arrest & Prevention, Safety Hazards, State and Federal safety codes and regulations. SDafety training as required by Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) 2. OSHA 10-Hour Construction Course – if required for public work 3. First Aid – minimum 6.5 hours every 3 years 4. Sexual Harassment Prevention Training – must comply with Section 201-g of the Labor Law 5. Confined Space Safety 6. Asbestos Safety: a. If apprentice will do any handling of asbestos: i. Successfully complete a course approved by the New York State Department of Health for “Asbestos Handler” and obtain, and keep current, an “Asbestos Handler (Worker)” certificate from the New York State Department of Labor b. If apprentice will do no handling of asbestos: i. Asbestos Awareness – minimum 4 hours (see attachment) 7. Hazardous Waste Worker (if Work Process “J” is elected)

1. Review and Application of Basic Mathematics 2. Estimating for the Trade

1. Elementary Blueprint Reading 2. Advanced Blueprint Reading 3. Freehand Sketching and Layouts

1. History and Background (6 hours, 1st year) 2. Current Laws and Practices (14 hours, 2nd year)

1. Carpentry and the Other Skilled Construction Trades 2. Tools and Materials of the Trade 3. State and Local Building Codes 4. Foundations 5. Rough Framing 6. Exterior Finishes 7. Interior Finishes 8. Roof Framing 9. Stair Building and Finishing 10.Cabinetmaking 11.Reinforced Concrete Form Construction 12.Heavy Timber Construction and Framing 13.Welding and Cutting 14.Acoustics and Drywall 15.Plastics and Resilients 16.Use of Lasers in Construction (optional) 17.Solar Collector Systems (optional) 18.Piledriving Equipment and Materials (if Work Process “K” is elected): a. Piledrivers i. Floating of water drivers ii. Construction iii. Rigging- anchors, lines, buoys, hammer line, pile line, jet rigging, lead rigging, deck winches, rigger leads, iv. Hammers and leads (drop, steam, pneumatic, diesel) v. Hammer rigging vi. Lead construction (stationary, swinging, pendulum, false, pile extractors) 19.Tools- drilling and setting with long augers 20.Piling a. Material- wood, treated wood, steel, tube and sheet, concrete, cutoffs b. Driving of material, driving to bearing, jetting 21.Rigging a. building sections, stressed beams, knots, hitches and splices (manilla and wire)stiff legs, gin pole, shear legs, mobile cranes, righting capsized drivers 22.Excavations and shoring 23.Form Building 24.Construction of cofferdams- steel sheet piling, wood construction, sealing of cofferdams,removal 25.Construction of wood trestles- truss type, heavy framing 26.Bridge construction -overpasses, abutments, sills, column, vertical curves and supers, beams (cast in place, pre-cast, pre-stressed and post-stressed) 27.Dock building (wood and concrete) 28.Float and pontoon 29.Welding and burning 30.Construction of engines, jets and jet pumps