PPT 3080 - Basic Plumbing Standards

Clock Hours: 108

Delivery Mode
on-ground

Prerequisites: Orientation & Safety, Worker Characteristics, Applied Math-Pipefitting, Trade Tools, Blueprint Reading, Oxy-Fuel Cutting & Welding, Rigging/Pipe Hangers, Pipe Valves, Flanges & Fasteners, Pipe Types- Schedule of Pipes, Fabrication, Piping Diagrams, Butt Weld Fabrication, Socket Weld Fabrication, OSHA 10, and Threaded Pipe Fabrication, Career Skills, Advanced Pipe Fabrication, Advanced Trade Math, Special Piping

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Course Description:
This course will explore basic plumbing safety, plumbing tools, basic plumbing drawings, and working with the most common plumbing materials including copper pipe and fittings. The course first explores the many important safety measures that help plumbers remain safe on the jobsite. The course also explores the most common plumbing tools that are essential for success in the industry. Understanding the components of a drawing are essential to be able to interpret them accurately. Basic construction drawings for plumbing will be reviewed and interpreted. Copper pipe and fittings are used in a variety of plumbing applications. Copper is one of the most used materials for pipe. This course will focus on applications, fittings, pipe runs valves, and flow control with copper piping.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Describe and recognize the most common unsafe acts and conditions that cause accidents in plumbing
Identify basic hand and power tools used in the plumbing trade
Demonstrate the proper use of common plumbing tools
Identify pictorial (isometric and oblique) schematic and orthographic drawings and discuss how different views are used to depict information and objects
Identify the basic symbols used in schematic drawings of pipe assemblies
Identify the material properties, storage, and handling requirements of copper piping
Identify the types of fittings and valves used with copper piping
Identify the techniques used in hanging and supporting copper piping
Properly measure, ream, cut, and join copper piping
Identify the hazard and safety precautions associated with copper piping