Construction Lessons videos

Within our Construction section, we have an extensive range of learning resources, lessons, videos, guidance sheets, master statements and assessment tools.

Our construction lessons include:

• Access Equipment on a Construction Site
• Accidents - Near Misses on the Construction Site
• Accidents - RIDDOR Reporting
• Accidents - What can cause them?
• Aerated Blocks
• Basic Fire Awareness - Fire Legislation
• Basic Fire Awareness - Fire Signage
• Basic Fire Awareness - Preventing Fires
• Basic Fire Awareness - Types of Fire Fighting Equipment on a Construction Site
• Basic Fire Awareness - Understanding Your Role in a Fire Evacuation
• Benefits of Thin Joint Technology for Blockwork
• Benefits to the Structure of the Construction Industry
• Block Types
• Block Work - Cutting a Block
• Bolster Chisel
• Bonding
• Brick Classification
• Brick Hammer
• Brick Requirements
• Bricklaying
• Builders Line and Pins
• Building a Block Pyramid
• Building a Block Work Stopped End Racking Back
• Building a Cavity Wall Brick
• Building a Half Brick Wall Stretcher Bond
• Building a Solid Wall Building - English Bond Queen Closer
• Building a Solid Wall in Stretcher Bond
• Building a Stretcher Bond Wall
• Building Profiles

We also have construction lessons and construction videos in:

• Cavity Wall
• Cavity wall Construction
• Cavity Wall Finishing Your Work (Pointing)
• Cavity Wall Inserting Wall Ties
• Cavity Wall Laying Damp Course
• Civil Engineering
• Civil Engineering - Drainage
• Civil Engineering - Electric Services
• Civil Engineering - Flood Defences
• Civil Engineering - Sewage
• Civil Engineering - Telecommunications Services
• Civil Engineering - Transport
• Civil Engineering - Utilities
• Civil Engineering - Water Services
• Clay Bricks
• Cleaning Your Tools
• Client Structure in the Construction Industry
• Cold Chisel
• Components of Wall Openings - Cavity Closers
• Components of Wall Openings - Cavity Trays
• Components of Wall Openings - Damp Proof course
• Components of Wall Openings - Lintels
• Components of Wall Openings - Sill
• Components of Wall Openings - Threshold
• Components of Wall Openings - Weep holes
• Constructing a Solid Wall - Video Lesson
• Constructing an English Bond - Video Lesson
• COSHH
• Cutting Bricks and Blocks
• Dense Blocks
• Describing Hand Tools - Bricklaying
• Describing Hand Tools - Carpentry
• Developing Bricklaying Skills - Basic Bricklaying processes
• Developing Bricklaying Skills - Communicate Appropriately with Others
• Developing Bricklaying Skills - Developing Bricklaying Skills
• Developing Bricklaying Skills - Follow instructions When Working with Others
• Developing Bricklaying Skills - Hand Tools
• Developing Bricklaying Skills - Maintain a Clean and Tidy Work Environment
• Developing Bricklaying Skills - Materials
• Developing Bricklaying Skills - Work Responsibly with Others
• Dry Bonding
• Functions of a Wall
• Gauge Rod
• Gauging Mortar for Hand Mixing
• Gauging Mortar for Machine Mixing
• Half Bond
• Half Brick Wide Wall in Stretcher Bond
• Hand Mixing
• Hazard and Risk on a Construction Site
• Health & Safety Signs in the Workplace
• How to Butter Mortar on to a Brick
• How to Clean, Cut and Roll Mortar
• How to do a Risk Assessment
• How to Mix Mortar by Hand
• How to Mix Mortar Correctly
• Hygiene on a Construction Site
• Identify different types of brick patterns and bonding arrangements
• Identify Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• Insulated Blocks
• Insulated Panels (SIPs)

• Introduction to Health and Safety on a Construction Site
• Introduction to The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations
• Job - Bricklayer
• Job - Carpenter / Joiner
• Job - Carpet Fitter
• Job - Construction Site Labourer
• Job - Electrician
• Job - Health & Safety Officer
• Job - Painter and Decorator
• Job - Plasterer
• Job - Plumber
• Job - Roofer
• Job - Sheet Metal Worker
• Jointing
• Jointing Bar (also known as a Jointing Iron)
• Laying Trowel (also known as a Walling Trowel)
• Legislation - An Introduction to Health and Safety Legislation
• Legislation - The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
• Legislation - The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 - The Responsibilities of Employees
• Legislation - The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974: The Responsibilities of an Employer
• Levelling and Plumbing
• Lightweight Blocks
• Lump Hammer (also known as a Club Hammer)
• Manual Handling on a Construction Site
• Masonry Cavity Wall
• Measuring Tape
• Merit Criteria
• Mortar
• Operating Machinery Safely on a Construction Site
• Operative Verbs (Construction)
• Performance Requirements of a Building - Fire Resistance
• Performance Requirements of a Building - Sound Insulation
• Performance Requirements of a Building - Stability
• Performance Requirements of a Building - Stability of Cavity Walling
• Performance Requirements of a Building - Strength
• Performance Requirements of a Building - Strength and Stability Using Lateral and Vertical Restraints
• Performance Requirements of a Building - Strength and Stability Using Lateral and Vertical Restraints
• Performance Requirements of a Building - Sustainability
• Performance Requirements of a Building - Testing Materials – Compressive Testing of Concrete
• Performance Requirements of a Building - Testing Materials – Grading Hardcore
• Performance Requirements of a Building - Testing Materials – Mortar Testing by Carrying Out a Silt Test
• Performance Requirements of a Building - Testing Materials – Slump Test
• Performance Requirements of a Building - Testing Materials – Stress Grading of Timber
• Performance Requirements of a Building - Thermal Insulation
• Performance Requirements of a Building - Transfer of Loads to Foundations
• Performance Requirements of a Building - Weather Resistance
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Plugging Chisel
• Pointing Trowel
• Pointing up
• Practical Task in Solid Wall Construction
• Practical Tasks for Blockwork
• Practical Tasks for Cavity Walling
• Practical Tasks for Half Brick Walling
• Practical Tasks for Half Brick Wide Walling
• Ratios
• Reducing the Risks to Health and Safety in the Construction Industry
• Risk Assessment
• Risk Assessment - Management Regulations
• Risk Assessment - The Reasons Why We Do Risk Assessment
• Rolling and Spreading Mortar
• Rolling Mortar
• Roof Materials and Terminology
• Safe Use of Hand Tools and Equipment for Brick and Block Laying Tasks
• Safe Use of Wheelbarrow
• Safe Working Practice - Using a Shovel
• Safety Policy on a Construction Site
• Scaffolding on a Construction Site
• Scutch Hammer (also known as a Comb Hammer)
• Slips, Trips and Falls
• Spirit Level
• Storing and Stacking
• Structural Blocks (Superstructure)
• Substructure Wall
• Taking Your Work Down and Cleaning Your Bricks
• The Construction Industry - Civil Engineering
• The Construction Industry - Education
• The Construction Industry - Health
• The Construction Industry - Industrial
• The Construction Industry - Leisure and Recreation
• The Construction Industry - Maintenance and Repair of Buildings
• The Construction Industry - Commercial
• The construction Industry - Residential
• The Construction Industry - Retail
• The Enforcement of Health and Safety Legislation
• The Enforcement of Health and Safety Legislation - Breaches
• The Personnel Structure in the Construction Industry
• The Qualifications and Development Needed for Careers in the Construction Industry
• The Roles and Responsibilities in the Construction Industry
• Thin-Joint Technology for Blocks
• Timber Frame Wall
• Tingle Plate
• Tool Identification - Bricklaying
• Tool Identification - Carpentry
• Tower Scaffold on a Construction Site
• Types of Brick - Facing Brick
• Types of Finishes to Cavity Wall Construction - Facing Blockwork
• Types of Finishes to Cavity Wall Construction - Facing Brickwork
• Types of Finishes to Cavity Wall Construction - Jointing to Achieve a Flush Finish
• Types of Finishes to Cavity Wall Construction - Jointing to Achieve a Half Round Finish
• Types of Finishes to Cavity Wall Construction - Jointing to Achieve a Recessed Finish
• Types of Finishes to Cavity Wall Construction - Jointing to Achieve a Weather Struck Finish
• Types of Finishes to Cavity Wall Construction - Render
• Types of Roof - Double Pitch
• Types of Roof - Flat
• Types of Roof - Gable Roof
• Types of Roof-Hipped End
• Types of Roof - Lean-to
• Types of Roof - Mono Pitch
• Types of Wall Finishes
• Types of Wall Ties in Cavity Wall Construction
• Useful Products from Limestone
• Wall Openings and their Functions - Doors
• Wall Openings and their Functions - Windows
• Wall Openings and their Functions - Patio and French Door Types
• Wall Ties in Cavity Construction
• Welfare Regulations in the Construction Industry
• Wheeled Recessed Jointer (also known as a Chariot)
• Where Bricks are Used
• Why Do We Report and How Do We Report Accidents?
• Work Area
• Work Structure in the Construction Industry
• Working with Machinery on a Construction Site
• Workstation - An example of a Good Work Station
• Your Legal Duties for Health & Safety in the Workplace as Required by the Health & Safety at Work Act
• Your Work Station
• Insulation
• Internal Partitions
• Internal Plastered and Un-Plastered Blocks