Products and processes

What buildings are made of and how it gets installed.

Modules: 7 modules
Total length: 1h 42m
Handouts: 2 handouts
Assessment: 5-question assessment

Building materials staged on a bare concrete slab: banded timber studs, a shrink-wrapped pallet of tile, coiled conduit and leaning drywall sheets.

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7 modules · 1h 42m
2 handouts to keep
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What this course covers

Concrete, masonry, steel, wood, roofing, doors. Every material behaves differently, fails differently, and has a right and a wrong way to go in. This course walks the major building materials and the installation processes that go with them, so you know what good work looks like and what to reject.

7 modules · 1h 42m

1Concrete: mixes, placement, and curingFree previewPSI, slump, air entrainment, and why the first 48 hours after a pour decide everything.9m
2Masonry: block, brick, and reinforcementCMU and brick assemblies, grouting, and where the rebar actually goes.9m
3Structural steel: fabrication to erectionShop drawings, mill certs, bolted and welded connections, and erection sequence.18m

Who takes this

Tradespeople who can already do the work and want to run it
Field leads stepping into a foreman or superintendent seat
People coming into construction from another industry, or starting over
Students and families looking at a career that does not need a four-year degree
Crews being trained by their employer on a team plan

Aaron Gaddy holding a rolled set of drawings under his arm on a jobsite in late afternoon light.

Taught by Aaron Gaddy

30+ years in commercial construction. Every module here comes out of jobs he actually ran — the drawings, the mistakes, and what they cost.

Products and processes

What this course covers

7 modules · 1h 42m

Who takes this

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