This one-day course is designed for site managers, foremen, supervisors, quantity surveyors and trainees or anybody who is required to level and set out for construction and civil engineering work. Little or no previous experience is required, but some basic understanding of the need to use and transfer levels is desirable.

Course Objectives:

On completion of the course delegates will be able to:

• Set out right angles and curves (with hidden radius point).
• Set up and use an automatic level.
• Read the level staff, book and reduce levels.
• Establish a working benchmark on site.
• Record the level of existing features.
• Set out level information from a drawing.
• Set out given level values, including soffits & flanges (Inverse levels).
• Set out profiles/site rails and calculate traveller lengths for drainage runs.
• Understand potential sources of error in levelling.
• Carry out a simple test on the accuracy of the equipment.

Course Duration: 1 day