🔨 Module 1: Construction Joinery Basics

“Measure twice, cut once — craftsmanship starts here.”

🔧 TVET CDACC Unit Code Unit Title
CON/CU/CARP/CR/01/5/JN Joinery Tools and Techniques
CON/CU/CARP/CR/02/5/JN Timber Properties and Classification
CON/CU/CARP/CR/03/5/JN Workshop Safety and Measurement

🎯 Why This Module Matters

  • Develops essential hand-tool skills like planing, chiseling, measuring, and accurate joining.
  • Introduces timber classification and application in structural and finishing carpentry.
  • Builds workshop discipline and safety awareness—a critical foundation in all skilled trades.
  • Equips learners with joinery accuracy and precision that influences all future construction quality.

🪵 Why It’s Relevant to Builders

  • All structural timber works — from doors and frames to roof trusses — rely on precision joinery that begins here.
  • Understanding wood properties ensures proper selection, durability, and safety of wooden components across sites.
  • Whether on site or in the workshop, skilled carpenters are indispensable — this module prepares you for real construction demands in housing, cabinetry, and timber roofing systems.

Cabinetry Works

UNIT DESCRIPTION

This unit specifies the competencies required to carry out cabinetry works. It involves setting out and preparing work area, assembling and preparing cabinet units, installing built in cabinets, kitchen cabinets, and wardrobes.

Door & Window Frames

Unit Description

This unit describes the competence required to fix door and window frames. It involves setting out and preparing openings for frames, positioning and securing door and window frames, applying fixings and reinforcements and finishing and inspecting installed frames.

Temporary Works 1

UNIT DESCRIPTION

This unit describes the competencies required to construct temporary works. It involves setting out and preparing for temporary works, installing trench timbering for excavation support, constructing and erecting form work for concrete structures, installing and securing shuttering for concrete works, dismantling
and removing temporary works.