Description
Objectives
Learning Objective 1 – Describe how standards and specifications are used to ensure quality control throughout the masonry industry.
- Describe the standards and specifications that apply to masonry units, mortar, grout, and accessories.
- Describe the standards that apply to laboratory and field testing of masonry construction.
Learning Objective 2 – Describe how masonry sample panels and prisms are built and tested to ensure quality control on a project.
- Describe how to build sample panels. b.Describe how to build hollow masonry prisms.
- Describe how to build grouted masonry prisms.
- Describe how to prepare and test mortar and grout prisms.
- Describe how to conduct masonry tests.
Learning Objective 3 – Describe how mortar is tested to ensure quality control on a project.
- Describe how to perform sand tests.
- Describe how to perform mortar consistency tests.
- Describe how to perform brick absorption tests.
- Describe how to perform laboratory tests.
Learning Objective 4 – Describe how field inspections and observa- tions are used to ensure quality control on a project.
- Describe why and how standards and codes inspections are performed.
- Describe why and how materials inspections are performed.
- Describe the types of observations that are undertaken during construction.
- Describe why and how construction tolerances are monitored.
Performance Tasks
Performance Task 1 (Learning Objective 2) • Build a prism for mortar testing.
Performance Task 2 (Learning Objective 3) • Perform a slump test.
