Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for work.
- Work instructions, including plans, specifications, quality requirements and operational details, are obtained, confirmed and applied from relevant information to determine the required bricklaying and blocklaying tasks.
- Safety (OHS) requirements are followed in accordance with safety plans and policies.
- Signage and barricade requirements are identified and implemented.
- Plant, tools and equipment selected to carry out tasks are consistent with job requirements, checked for serviceability, and any faults are rectified or reported prior to commencement.
- Material quantity requirements are calculated in accordance with plans, specifications and quality requirements.
- Materials appropriate to the work application are identified, obtained, prepared, safely handled and located ready for use.
- Environmental requirements are identified for the project in accordance with environmental plans and statutory and regulatory authority obligations, and are applied.
- Set out for decorative brickwork.
- Lay bricks to form corbels and protrusions.
- Corbelling design is checked from specifications to ensure overhang design is in accordance with job drawings and specifications.
- Bricks are laid to maintain bond and level alignment to form corbels to design and specifications.
- Bricks are laid to form featured protrusions in accordance with job drawings and specifications.
- Construct brickwork to acute and obtuse angled corners.
- Junction at corners is determined in accordance with specifications.
- Standard bricks are laid to line and level to form dogtooth and mitre junctions in accordance with specifications.
- Squints and standard bricks are laid to line and level to form designed flush junctions in accordance with specifications.
- Bond and gauge are maintained to specification.
- Lay plinth bricks or squints to form plinth areas or sills.
- Install decorative capping.
- Construct decorative panel.
- Finish joints.
- Clean up.
- Work area is cleared and materials disposed of, reused or recycled in accordance with legislation, regulations, codes of practice and job specification.
- Plant, tools and equipment are cleaned, checked, maintained and stored in accordance with manufacturer recommendations and standard work practices.