2026 Grade 10 Building Construction Lesson Plans – Week 1-Week 14 -Term 2

It covers the following strands and sub-strands:

• Building Construction Processes
  • Foundations
    • Functions and structural importance of foundations, identification of foundation types (strip, pad, raft), interpreting foundation working drawings, preparation and setting out of trenches, and procedural steps for laying concrete strip foundations.
  • Timbering
    • Purpose and safety roles of timbering, materials used (poling boards, walings, struts, wedges), timbering methods for different soil types (open and close), installation sequences, and economic advantages of timbering.
  • Foundation Walling
    • Challenges of walls below ground, using profile boards and plumb bobs for alignment, masonry bonding (stretcher and header bonds), drawing wall elevations, practical wall construction, backfilling procedures, and structural load transfer.
  • Ground Floors
    • Types of ground floors (solid concrete and suspended timber), floor components and layers, cross-sectional drawings, and the sequential process of constructing solid ground floors.
• Building Services
  • Plumbing
    • Identification and use of plumbing tools (pipe wrenches, cutters, threaders), tool maintenance procedures, properties of plumbing materials, identification of pipe fittings (elbows, tees, couplings), pipe preparation (measuring, cutting, deburring), and jointing techniques (solvent cementing, threading, heat fusion).