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Program Overview
This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the Architecture and Construction career cluster; provides technical skill proficiency, and includes competency based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher order reasoning and problem solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of the Architecture and Construction career cluster. The content includes but is not limited to reading construction documents, understanding building codes in the pipe trades, plumbing pipe cutting and joining skills and plumbing layout and installation.
This program is eligible for fulltime enrollment.
Program Admission Requirements
AGE: 16 years or older
BASIC SKILLS LEVEL: Computations (Math) 9.0 & Communications (Reading & Language Arts) 9.0
*Or meet other basic skill requirements
Employment Opportunities
The purpose of the programs is to prepare students for employment or advanced training in a variety of pipe occupations to include pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters.
What You'll Learn
- Plumber Helper
- Describe career and training opportunities in the pipe trade industry.
- Demonstrate a basic knowledge of the pipe trade industry.
- Identify the use and care of basic tools in the pipe trade industry.
- Demonstrate the importance of health, safety and environmental management systems in organizations and their importance to organizational performance and regulatory compliance.
- Demonstrate basic mathematics knowledge and skills.
- Demonstrate science knowledge and skills.
- Read and interpret construction documents.
- Read and interpret current pipe trade codes.
- Residential Plumber
- Demonstrate knowledge of basic plumbing skills.
- Cut and join pipes.
- Demonstrate knowledge of plumbing codes.
- Read and interpret construction documents and specifications.
- Layout and coordinate a job.
- Layout and install, discuss and simulate, the installation of the first rough (underground).
- Layout and install, discuss and simulate, the installation of the second rough (first floor & above).
- Layout and install, discuss and simulate trim out plumbing.
- Explain the importance of employability and entrepreneurship skills.
- Commercial Plumber
- Discuss and simulate the installation of water heating and circulating systems.
- Discuss and simulate the installation of interceptors and separators.
- Discuss and simulate the installation of a storm drainage system.
- Explain the principles of backflow cross and connection control.
Program Requirements
Plumbing · C500500/CIP 0646050312 · 1080 Hours
| OCP | Course Number | Course Title | Course Length | SOC Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | BCV0508 | Helper, Plumber, Pipefitter | 360 | 47-3015 |
| B | BCV0540 | Residential Plumber | 240 | 47-2152 |
| C | BCV0562 | Commercial Plumber | 240 | 47-2152 |
| D | BCV0596 | Plumbing Applications | 240 | 47-2152 |
Program Costs
| $3,153.60 | Florida Resident Tuition ($2.92 x 1080 hours) |
| $90.00 | Registration Fees ($45.00 per semester x 2) |
| $1,600.00 | Lab Fee ($800.00 per semester x 2) |
| $100.00 | Facility Usage Fee ($50.00 per semester x 2) |
| $655.00 | Miscellaneous Fees (1st Semester Only) (Plumbing kit) |
| $150.00 | Books Store |
| Total Costs $5,748.60 | |
Program Instructors
