Pre-Apprenticeship Programs

CPC10120 Certificate I in Construction

Skills and Knowledge You Will Gain

This qualification provides an introduction to the construction industry and equips students with the practical skills, safety knowledge, and workplace awareness required to begin a trade career. By completing this course, learners will develop:

  • Safety and Workplace Practices
    • White Card training: preparing to work safely in the construction industry
    • Applying WHS requirements, policies and procedures
    • Safe use of hand and power tools
    • Handling construction materials safely
  • Trade Fundamentals
    • Basic levelling procedures
    • Undertaking basic estimation and costing
    • Reading and interpreting plans and specifications
    • Completing a basic construction project from start to finish
  • Workplace Communication and Organisation
    • Effective workplace communication skills
    • Planning and organising work tasks
    • Working effectively and sustainably in a team environment

Through hands-on learning and applied practice, students gain realistic entry-level experience in the construction sector

Essential Information

  • Campus delivery in fully equipped workshops
  • Mobile phone friendly theory modules
  • Trainer led classrooms with hands-on practical tasks
  • Free daily bus transfer to and from Varsity Station

Course Overview

This CPC10120 Certificate I in Construction qualification provides an introduction to the construction industry and equips students with the practical skills, safety knowledge, and workplace awareness required to begin a trade career. By completing this course, learners will develop:

Key learning outcomes include:

  • Safety and Workplace Practices
  • Trade Fundamentals
  • Workplace Communication and Organisation

Duration: 3 weeks full time, Monday to Friday, then every Monday for 5 weeks
Delivery:  Structured training at our fully equipped workshops and campus

Pathways

The Certificate I in Construction is an entry-level qualification. While it does not qualify a person to work as a tradesperson, it provides a solid foundation of industry skills. Possible outcomes include:

  • Trade assistant or labourer (under supervision)
  • Pathway into apprenticeships across building and construction trades (e.g. carpentry, concreting, bricklaying, plastering)
  • Better preparation for work placements or school-based traineeships in construction

Study Pathways

After successfully completing this qualification, students may:

  • Progress into CPC20220 Certificate II in Construction Pathways, which builds on trade-specific skills.
  • Gain direct entry into a Certificate III trade apprenticeship in areas such as Carpentry, Concreting, Bricklaying, or Wall and Floor Tiling.
  • Continue to further vocational education in other construction or civil trades.

The following entry requirements apply to ensure applicants are able to fully engage in the course and have the required learning capacity to meeting the course requirements.

Learners must:

  • be committed to pursue a career in the construction industry
  • be aged 15 years or over
  • hold a minimum of a Year 10 School education (or equivalent)
  • have a level of physical fitness to be able to handle tools, equipment and materials, work outside for long periods of time
  • be able to commit to the course duration and time commitment (including extra course duration if required)

11 units of competency:

8 core units
3 elective units

CPCCCM1011 Undertake basic estimation and costing
CPCCCM2004 Handle construction materials
CPCCCM2005 Use construction tools and equipment
CPCCWHS2001 Apply WHS requirements, policies and procedures in the construction industry
CPCCOM1012 Work effectively and sustainably in the construction industry
CPCCOM1013 Plan and organise work
CPCCVE1011 Undertake a basic construction project
CPCCWHS1001 Prepare to work safely in the construction industry
CPCCOM1014 Conduct workplace communication
CPCCOM2001 Read and interpret plans and specifications
CPCCCM2006 Apply basic levelling procedures

Our next program commences on  Monday 1st December 2025, please call our team on 07 5669 9000 to find out more information and to request an enrolment package

3 weeks full time, Monday to Friday, then every Monday for 5 weeks

Please phone our pre-apprenticeship team on 07 5669 9000 to find out more about fees and subsidies.

Essential Information

  • Campus delivery in fully equipped workshops
  • Mobile phone friendly theory modules
  • Trainer led classrooms with hands-on practical tasks
  • Free daily bus transfer to and from Varsity Station