Vietnam: Required skills for the intermediate-level Construction Engineering Technology

Circular No. 45/2018/TT-BLDTBXH of the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs of Vietnam stipulates the required skills for the intermediate-level Construction Engineering Technology that graduates need to achieve as follows:

- Implementing safety procedures in excavation, scaffolding, working at heights;

- Being able to understand methods for ensuring environmental hygiene, wastewater treatment, and construction waste management.

- Being able to use AutoCAD software for technical drawing in construction; creating drawings according to basic technical drawing standards; drawing different types of projections: plan, elevation, section.

- Being able to calculate the quantities of work in civil and industrial construction; being able to check the load-bearing capacity of basic structural elements; being able to handle situations where the calculated load-bearing capacity is insufficient.

- Being able to implement drawing documents according to the requirements and calculation results of the responsible design staff; developing construction methods, construction schedules, manpower charts, and overall construction layouts.

- Being able to select and use equipment, tools, instruments, specialized tools, measuring instruments in construction; repairing simple electrical equipment to meet technical and safety requirements.

- Measuring and determining reference lines, dimension lines, elevations proficiently for construction of construction items; proficiently performing tasks such as marking reference points, manually excavating trenches, soil excavation; handling simple foundation cases, driving wooden piles, bamboo piles, sand cushion.

- Proficiently carrying out manual and machine concrete mixing, mortar mixing; mixing, transporting, compacting, finishing, and curing concrete.

- Being able to construct certain concrete structures: foundations, columns, beams, floors, walls, and handling concrete joints; constructing certain steel structures: steel columns, steel beams, steel braces, handrails.

- Being able to construct brick and stone structures: foundations, walls, rectangular pillars, continuous wall pillars, circular pillars, ledges, arches, lintels; tiling, ceramic tiling, decorative tiling; plastering walls, ceilings, ledges, cornices, beams, ceilings, door frames; painting, applying putty, installing sanitary equipment, door frames, hinges.

- Being able to use basic information technology according to regulations; applying information technology in some specialized tasks in the industry.

- Being able to use basic foreign languages, achieving level 1/6 according to the Foreign Language Proficiency Framework of Vietnam; being able to apply foreign languages in some specialized tasks in the industry.

View more details at Circular No. 45/2018/TT-BLDTBXH of the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs of Vietnam, effective from February 10, 2019.

Ty Na

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