INTRODUCTION:
Welcome to the Carry Out Site Surveys & Set-Out Procedures to Building & Construction Projects course. This course only includes a challenge assessment designed to assess your knowledge and skills required to demonstrate competence in completing site surveying and set-out procedures that support accurate construction levels, earthworks planning and alignment of building and civil works to project documentation.
Carrying out site surveys and set-out procedures involves interpreting current project plans, establishing and verifying levels, and performing surveying calculations that allow construction work to be positioned correctly on site. This work requires accuracy and consistency because small errors in levelling, distance measurement, grid set-out or grade calculations can lead to incorrect cut and fill volumes, poor drainage falls, misaligned structures, rework and significant cost impacts. Effective site survey and set-out practices provide the basis for reliable earthworks, foundations, drainage and service installations, and they ensure that site works match design intent and required tolerances.
The course assessment focuses on your ability to interpret and apply surveying and set-out requirements, make accurate calculations using recognised methods, and recognise the practical steps required to collect, check, record and present survey data correctly. You will be required to demonstrate how you source, read and apply current project plans and site set-out procedures, select and use levelling devices in line with standard operating procedures, and confirm instrument accuracy through the two peg test.
This assessment will confirm your understanding of levelling and reduced level determination requirements, including completing closed level runs using both the rise and fall method and the height of plane collimation method, and calculating accurate staff readings to set out specific reduced levels. It will also assess your knowledge of identifying and explaining errors in measured distances caused by site characteristics and measurement methods, and applying appropriate checking processes to ensure survey reliability.
You will also be assessed on set-out grid and earthworks planning requirements, including determining set-out grid locations and grid levels, preparing contour plans from grid levels to specified tolerances and contour intervals, determining surface area to be levelled and calculating cut and fill volumes, and performing and recording trigonometric and geometric calculations used with grid lines, offsets and right-angle triangles without error. The assessment will examine your ability to draw longitudinal sections from reduced levels, determine levels and clearances from given grades and distances to specified tolerances, convert and express calculation angles, percentages and run ratios into grades, calculate batter levels from grades and distances, and construct longitudinal sections with associated grades and levels for typical drainage and pipeline situations.
By successfully completing this course assessment, you will have demonstrated that you can interpret and apply the core requirements for carrying out site surveys and set-out procedures, including selecting and verifying levelling instruments, completing closed level runs using accepted methods, calculating reduced levels accurately, identifying measurement error sources, setting out grids and preparing contour information, calculating cut and fill volumes, completing trig and geometry calculations reliably, and producing longitudinal sections and grade calculations for drainage and pipeline applications—confirming your readiness to support accurate set-out and site survey activities on building and construction projects.
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS ASSESSMENT:
This course assessment is based on the following topics:
1. Sourcing, reading and applying current project plans and site set-out procedures
2. Selecting and using levelling devices in accordance with standard operating procedures
3. Conducting the two peg test to check levelling instrument error
4. Completing a closed level run using the rise and fall method
5. Completing a closed level run using the height of plane collimation (HPC) method
6. Calculating accurate staff readings to set out specific reduced levels (RLs)
7. Identifying and explaining errors in measured distances due to site characteristics and measurement methods
8. Determining set-out grid locations and grid levels for the site
9. Preparing contour plans from grid levels to specified tolerances and contour intervals
10. Determining surface area to be levelled and calculating cut and fill volumes
11. Performing and recording trigonometric and geometric calculations used with grid lines, offsets and right-angle triangles without error
12. Drawing longitudinal sections from reduced levels
13. Determining levels and clearances from given grades and distances to specified tolerances
14. Converting and expressing calculation angles, percentages and run ratios into grades and calculating batter levels from grades and distances
15. Constructing longitudinal sections and determining associated grades and levels for typical drainage and pipeline situations
ABOUT THIS ASSESSMENT-ONLY COURSE:
This Assessment-Only course is designed for experienced professionals who already have a solid understanding of this subject area and simply wish to verify and document their existing knowledge. Instead of working through learning resources, you will go straight to a quiz that assesses your current competency in this field.
ASSESSMENT FORMAT & SUBMISSION ATTEMPTS:
This course assessment consists of a 20-question multiple-choice & true-or-false quiz with unlimited submission attempts during your enrolment period.
ESTIMATED COMPLETION TIME & VALIDITY:
The typical time to complete this assessment is approximately 10-15 minutes. Your enrolment is Valid for 12 Months from the date of purchase.
CERTIFICATION:
Upon successful completion of this course assessment, you will receive a customised digital “Certificate of Completion”.