COURSE SYLLABUS
REINFORCING CONCRETE
Course Description:
This course is designed to provide the Iron Worker student with training in
reinforcing concrete including history, manufacturing, safety, reinforcing forms,
bridge and highway construction, bending, tagging, marking, and fabricating. The
course will also include unloading, handling, storing, installing and placing
reinforcing. The student will also learn to read reinforcing drawings.
Course Objective:
The objective of this course is to enable a student to safely reinforce concrete.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
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Outline the history of reinforcing and the manufacturing of reinforcing steel.
Identify reinforcing tools, ties and safety practices.
Identify structural forms associated with placing reinforcing steel.
Demonstrate how to bend, tag, mark and fabricate reinforcing steel.
Demonstrate how to safely unload, handle and store reinforcing steel.
Read engineering and placing drawings.
Install bar supports.
Place reinforcing in footings, walls, columns, beams and girders, and in joists
and slabs.
Describe how to reinforce highway and airport pavement and how to use bar
splicing and mechanical couplers.
Target Audience:
This course is mandatory for all apprentices.
Length of Course:
This course is designed to be offered during a total of 75 hours – 45 hours of
classroom instruction and 30 hours of hands-on lab or shop training. It is
recommended that classroom and hands-on lab or shop sessions be combined
where appropriate. For example, the instructor may spend 90 minutes in lecture
in the classroom followed by 90 minutes in the shop. This means the course may
consist of 25 3-hour sessions. When appropriate, more class sessions may be
held for shorter periods of time in order to provide the student with sufficient
opportunities to learn the content.
Course sessions may be conducted during evenings in blocks of 3 or 4 hours or
may be conducted during all day sessions. Given the time required for students
to master these skills, it is recommended that all day courses include classroom
sessions of no more than a 3 to 4-hour block in the morning and a 3 to 4-hour
block in the afternoon.
Lab or shop sessions may be scheduled for as little time as 1 hour and may be
as long as 6 hours (with breaks).
Location of the Course:
All course sessions will be held at the facilities used by the local union. Lab or
shop activities may be held in an inside work area and/or may be held in an
outside work area.
Instructor Information:
The instructor for this course is a journeyman Iron Worker with experience
working with reinforcing concrete, who is able to perform all of the reinforcing
skills, and who has been trained as an instructor.
Course Materials:
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Reinforcing Concrete for Ironworkers Reference Manual
Reinforcing Concrete for Ironworkers Student Workbook
Reinforcing Concrete for Ironworkers Instructor Guide
Reinforcing Concrete for Ironworkers DVD
Assignment Sheets (in the Student Workbook)
Job Sheets (in the Student Workbook)
Tests (in the Instructor Guide)
A Word about Safety
The importance of safety will be addressed and reinforced in all hands-on
activities in the classroom, in the shop, and on the job site.
Course Assignments:
There are assignment sheets for each unit of instruction. Students will complete
these assignment sheets prior to and/or during course sessions as determined
by the instructor. Job sheets will be completed as part of each unit. Most job
sheets will be completed in the lab or shop area and/or outside in a work area.
Course Grading Criteria:
To successfully complete this course, the student must complete all of the
assignment sheets, demonstrate the required skills in the lab or shop, and pass
the knowledge tests.
Course Attendance:
All course sessions are mandatory and while missed time can be made up,
missing a course session will affect your ability to successfully complete this
course. Speak with the instructor to arrange make-up time if necessary.
Course Schedule:
NOTE: The following Course Schedule is set up for blocks or classes 3 hours in
length. If your course sessions are more or less than 3 hours, you will need to
adjust the number of sessions accordingly.
Date
Topics/Activities
Session 1
Introductions
Review of the course syllabus including the course objectives
Discussion of classroom and outside assignments
History of Reinforcing
Session 2
Test – History of reinforcing
Manufacturing of reinforcing steel
Lecture and discussion
Session 3
Test - Manufacturing of reinforcing steel
Reinforcing tools, ties and safety practices
Lecture and discussion
Skills demonstrations, apprentices practice and skills testing
Session 4
Reinforcing tools, ties and safety practices
Skills demonstrations, apprentices practice and skills testing
Session 5
Tests - Reinforcing tools, ties and safety practices
Types of reinforced concrete building construction
Lecture and discussion
Skills demonstrations, apprentices practice and skills testing
Session 6
Test - Types of reinforced concrete building construction
Mathematics for Reinforcing Concrete
Lecture and discussion
Session 7
Test - Mathematics for Reinforcing Concrete
Reinforcing in bridge construction
Lecture and discussion
Session 8
Test - Reinforcing in bridge construction
Principles and theory of reinforcing steel
Lecture and discussion
Session 9
Principles and theory of reinforcing steel
Lecture and discussion
Session 10
Test - Principles and theory of reinforcing steel
Fabrication of reinforcing steel
Lecture and discussion
Skills demonstrations, apprentices practice and skills testing
Session 11
Fabrication of reinforcing steel
Skills demonstrations, apprentices practice and skills testing
Session 12
Test - Fabrication of reinforcing steel
Unloading, handling and storing of reinforcing steel
Skills demonstrations, apprentices practice and skills testing
Session 13
Unloading, handling and storing of reinforcing steel
Skills demonstrations, apprentices practice and skills testing
Session 14
Test - Unloading, handling and storing reinforcing steel
Engineering and placing drawings
Lecture and discussion
Session 15
Test – Engineering and placing drawings
Special bar supports
Lecture and discussion
Skills demonstrations, apprentices practice and skills testing
Session 16
Test – Special bar supports
Placing reinforcing steel in footings
Lecture and discussion
Skills demonstrations, apprentices practice and skills testing
Session 17
Test - Placing reinforcing steel in footings
Placing reinforcing in walls
Lecture and discussion
Skills demonstrations, apprentices practice and skills testing
Session 18
Tests - Placing reinforcing in walls
Placing reinforcing bar in columns
Lecture and discussion
Skills demonstrations, apprentices practice and skills testing
Session 19
Test – Placing reinforcing bar in columns
Placing reinforcing steel in beams and girders
Lecture and discussion
Skills demonstrations, apprentices practice and skills testing
Session 20
Test - Placing reinforcing steel in beams and girders
Placing reinforcing in joists and slabs
Lecture and discussion
Skills demonstrations, apprentices practice and skills testing
Session 21
Tests - Placing reinforcing steel in joists and slabs
Highway structures and airport pavement
Lecture and discussion
Session 22
Test - Highway structures and airport pavement
Bar splices and mechanical coupling
Lecture and discussion
Session 23
Test - Bar splices and mechanical coupling
Reading reinforcing drawings
Lecture and discussion
Session 24
Test - Reading reinforcing drawings
Skills demonstrations, apprentices practice and skills testing
Session 25
Apprentices practice and skills testing
Course summary