Ensure your learners have the knowledge and skills to start a successful career in the construction industry, with this comprehensive new textbook published in association with City & Guilds for the legacy 6706, new 7906 and new Apprenticeship standard. This brand new title will help students: - Study with confidence, using the most up-to-date information available for all specifications and industry standards - Enhance their understanding of concepts and techniques with clear and accurate technical drawings and step-by-step photo sequences - Test their knowledge with end of chapter practice questions - Get ready for the workplace with industry tips and activities - Develop core skills with authors Stephen Jones and Stephen Redfern, who draw on their extensive teaching and industry experience

Help realise your learners' ambitions of becoming a specialist site carpenter or joiner in the construction industry with this comprehensive new textbook published in association with City & Guilds for the Level 3 6706, 7906 and new Apprenticeship standard. This brand new title will help students: - Study with confidence, using the most up-to-date information available for the new specifications and industry standards - Enhance their understanding of tools and concepts in carpentry and joinery with clear and accurate technical drawings and step-by-step photo sequences - Get ready for the workplace with industry tips and case studies - Develop core skills with authors Stephen Jones, Stephen Redfern and Martin Burdfield who draw on their extensive teaching and industry experience

Lay the foundation for a career as a carpenter or joiner with this highly illustrated and accessible book published in association with City & Guilds. Suitable for the 6706 Diploma, as well as other Level 1 carpentry and joinery qualifications, the book covers everything you need to kick-start your journey in the construction industry: the principles of construction, how to use hand and power tools, woodworking joints, fixings and ironmongery, and health and safety. - Study with confidence with content based on the latest industry standards. - Get ready for the workplace with 'Industry tips', 'Health and safety' reminders and 'Improve your maths/English' tasks. - Enhance your understanding of tools and key concepts in carpentry and joinery with clear and accurate technical drawings and step-by-step sequences. - Re-cap knowledge with 'Key terms' features and a detailed glossary. - Prepare for assessment with practice questions, practical tasks and activities. - Develop core skills with expert authors Stephen Jones and Stephen Redfern, who draw on their extensive teaching and industry experience.

This title provides all the information the reader will need to pass the City & Guilds level 1 diploma in carpentry and joinery.

A detailed and highly illustrated, practical guide to the techniques in first and second-fixing carpentry in domestic construction. The book includes step-by-step illustrations and text to provide the reader with a complete picture of the sequence of work required to carry out each task.

Brush up on the skills you'll need for your career with this comprehensive new textbook published in association with City & Guilds and covering the 7907 and 6707 Painting and Decorating qualifications at Levels 1 and 2. Topic coverage includes areas such as preparing surfaces for decoration; applying paint using brushes, rollers and HVLP spray methods; and applying paper to walls and ceilings. - Test yourself and prepare for assessment with end of chapter questions and practical scenarios. - Build the skills you'll need to use regularly in the workplace with the 'Improve your maths' and 'Improve English' tasks. - Get ready for the workplace with Industry Tips; Health and Safety reminders; and guidance on values and behaviours. - Develop core skills with expert authors Barrie Yarde and Steve Olsen, who draw on their extensive teaching and industry experience.

Lay the foundation for a career as a bricklayer with this highly illustrated and accessible book published in association with City & Guilds. Suitable for the 6705 Diploma, as well as other Level 1 bricklaying qualifications, the book covers everything you need to kick-start your journey in the construction industry: principles of construction, setting out, block walls, brick walls, cavity walls and health and safety. - Study with confidence with content based on the latest industry standards. - Get ready for the workplace with 'Industry tips', 'Health and safety' reminders and 'Improve your maths/English' tasks. - Enhance your understanding of tools and key concepts in bricklaying with clear and accurate technical drawings and step-by-step sequences. - Re-cap knowledge with 'Key terms' features and a detailed glossary. - Prepare for assessment with practice questions and activities. - Develop core skills with expert author Mike Jones, who draws on his extensive teaching and industry experience.

Written for the Cskills Awards Level 3 Diploma in Site Carpentry, this book has been developed in partnership with Leeds College of Building to bring you up-to-date and expert knowledge of site carpentry.

Goss’s Roofing Ready Reckoner provides cutting angle and lengths for traditional ‘cut’ roofs and design tables for timber sizing, based on BS5268 ‘Structural use of timber’ and now including a comparison of timber sizes using Eurocode 5 ‘Design of Timber Structures’. Additional information is provided on wall plate and gable strapping, wind bracing, truss clips and other roofing metalwork, plus information on tools, equipment and health and safety matters. Detailed drawings for tiling, slating and other roof coverings are included, with fixing requirements revised to BS 5534:2014. Information on lead substitutes and roofing putties is also provided. Design of warm and cold roofs is fully covered, including ventilation and insulation requirements. The fifth edition also includes new chapters on engineered timber roofing components, solar panel fixing and outbuilding roofs.

This title helps readers achieve the Level 3 diploma site carpentry and bench joinery.