Construction and the Built Environment

Do you like being creative and enjoy seeing your design ideas taking shape?
Are you thinking that you want the opportunity of working both indoors and outdoors?
Do you like to travel to places?
Do you like being part of a team?

Then the range of careers for all types of learners, both girls and boys, that employment in the Built Environment Sector can give you may well be for you.

With the huge building projects required for the 2012 Olympic games just around the corner and many local and national building and civil engineering firms looking for young people with design, technical and practical skills they can use, it is a good time to look at courses in construction and the built environment. Whether you want to get practical skills at level 1, add building theory and design techniques at level 2 or really investigate the world of construction and the built environment to a much higher level such as a degree and professional qualifications, Sawyers Hall College is able to offer practical and theoretical courses to suit your level of interest and ability.

Take a look at www.bconstructive.co.uk to see the range of careers available for you. It will also tell you how to develop a career pathway just for you.

Building on success we offer a series of construction courses that will suit young people who want to learn skills that will prepare them for the world of work.
Double Award in Construction Technology and the Built Environment.
This is a vocational related qualification and each year we have had 100% pass rate with the students who take this construction course at Level 2 (double GCSE award). They study practical skills, Computer Aided Design, and the theory of construction as it applies to the world of building. This is open to year 10 entrants.

Practical Building skills courses
September 2008 will see the start of Construction level one for year 10 students, which will be mainly practical, and cover skills such as Brick Laying, Tiling, Painting & Decorating and Joinery (woodwork). This course is the first step for students to learn the basic skills they will need in the exciting world of construction and can lead to NVQ courses that are required to practise the trades professionally.

Both these courses are offered as one full day each week and are based at one of the schools in Brentwood where they have purpose built facilities. It is open to students from all schools in the Brentwood area, who will travel to the central construction base one day a week. You will be provided with taster activities and guidance to ensure you study the right course of study for you.

Other Activities
There are regular visits from people who work in the construction world and come to in to share with the students about their jobs and help in project work.

Enterprise activities are undertaken so that you develop skills for employment.

We visit real construction sites to see how it is done.

Students also go out and visit real construction sites along with a very popular trip to the National Construction College in Norfolk, where they dig large holes with JCB diggers, learn how to lay block paving and put scaffolding towers up safely in giant aircraft hangers. In the engineering shop, the students learn how to work in awkward to get to places and take part in a time trial to remove and refit a JCB digger wheel.

On completion of all our construction courses, students get the chance to go on to higher level construction courses.

Diploma in Construction and the Built Environment
Brentwood is currently applying to deliver the new Diploma in Construction and the Built Environment in 2009 which will be worth five GCSE’s and take place on two days each week. This course is for the student who is predicted to achieve 5 A* to C grades or higher and will take an in-depth look at a broad range of building, design and environmental issues. It will be made up of units in Generic, Principle and Additional Specialised learning, providing an excellent grounding in a wide variety of knowledge areas. The students will look at Architecture, building design, CAD Computer Aided Design, use of materials and town planning amongst many other areas of study.

Which ever course you choose, you can be assured that it will prepare you for the world of work or entry to Further and Higher levels of study from college to University.

Building on Success.