Carpentry NC II case studies

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Carpentry NC II is a Philippine national certificate awarded under the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) qualification framework. It certifies that a holder can perform the core competencies of a construction carpenter at entry-to-journeyman level: setting out and laying out a job, installing and stripping formwork and shoring, doing rough framing, and completing finish carpentry and joinery to specification, while working safely and documenting work properly. The Carpentry NC II case studies are 5 cases and about 4,379 words.

Working deck at 3.0 m, no guardrail, pour at 4:00 p.m.

A six-man crew is setting formwork for the second-floor slab of a three-storey house. The slab soffit is 3.0 m above the ground floor, and the working deck is a steel scaffold frame carrying two 50 mm x 250 mm lumber planks laid side by side, overlapped only 150 mm and not cleated.

844 words, about 4 min 2

Four clashing dimensions and a disputed revision on a fit-out

You are the lead carpenter on a two-storey commercial fit-out and have just received the drawings for release. Three problems appear on the same wall line: Architectural sheet A-02 (Rev C) shows a 900 mm x 2100 mm door opening in a 100 mm CHB wall.

873 words, about 4 min 3

Three-day stripping on a suspended slab

You are the formwork supervisor for a suspended slab 100 mm thick over an area 4.5 m x 6.0 m, designed at 21 MPa at 28 days. The deck is 12 mm plywood on 50 x 100 bearers at 400 mm centres, carried on props at 1.2 m spacing both ways.

856 words, about 4 min 4

Removing a partition and a joist notched for a drain

You are renovating a 25-year-old single-storey house. The client wants a 2.4 m opening between the living room and kitchen, which means removing a partition.

935 words, about 5 min 5

Five doors that bind, a wet garage, and a walkthrough on Thursday

You have hung five solid-wood doors, 800 mm x 2100 mm x 40 mm, in a newly plastered house. The doors were delivered on Friday, still wrapped in plastic, and the site stored them flat on the concrete garage floor with no spacers, where they stayed until Tuesday.

871 words, about 4 min