Residential Course
This course offers a comprehensive, practical guide to residential construction, covering site preparation, foundations, framing, envelope detailing, and trade coordination to ensure efficient, code-compliant building projects.

flexible workload of 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Residential Course provides a straightforward, step-by-step guide to planning and building a solid house, starting from preparing the land and laying slab-on-grade foundations to constructing wood frames and finishing the complete building envelope. You'll learn practical steps, quality checks, safety measures, basic building code checks, and how to coordinate trades, helping you cut down on mistakes, pass inspections easily, and finish projects faster.
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Develop skills
- Residential site prep: grade, compact and set out small lots with confidence.
- Slab-on-grade execution: build flat, durable residential concrete foundations.
- Wood framing and load paths: frame walls and roofs that transfer loads safely.
- Building envelope detailing: control water, air and heat in wood-frame homes.
- Trade coordination and QC: sequence work, pass inspections and avoid rework.
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