Building Maintenance & Construction Tools and Maintenance Tasks (Interactive)

Building Maintenance & Construction: Tools and Maintenance Tasks introduces and develops knowledge of basic building maintenance tools and materials, applied skills and techniques, industry health and safety standards, and preventive maintenance and troubleshooting practices required by employers for entry-level positions in the building trades and facilities maintenance fields.

Learning Outcomes Participants that successfully complete this text should be able to:

1. Describe and demonstrate safe use of common hand and power tools used to perform common maintenance and construction tasks.
2. Identify and perform basic preventive and reactive maintenance procedures for residential homes, apartments, and appliances.
3. Identify standard building and construction materials, basic building mechanical systems and components, and discuss applicable solutions to mitigate building envelope and basic mechanical system component failures.
4. Describe procedures for research, requisition, and procurement of materials and parts to complete construction and maintenance tasks and/or work orders.
5. Apply quantitative methods to common building maintenance tasks.

Prerequisites

Procedures discussed throughout the Building Maintenance & Construction text require application of basic mathematics and physical science. Readers will be introduced to
general mathematical formulas, critical thinking skills, and safety as applied to specific tools and tasks throughout the book.

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