Civil Engineering and Building Construction At Nkangala TVET College

What are Civil Engineering and Building Construction?

Civil Engineering & Construction deals with designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure we rely on daily:

buildings, roads, bridges, water and energy systems, waste networks, and many more.

Civil Engineering and Building Construction At Nkangala TVET College

Duration: One year per NQF level.

Admission requirements:  

  • Grade 9 or higher
  • ABET Level 4
  • NQF level 1

To obtain a National Certificate: A total of 7 subjects: 3 Fundamental and 4 Vocational subjects.

Access to the following vocational activities:

  • Operation and maintenance of construction equipment and machinery.
  • Participate in the construction of roads, bridges, dams, railways, and houses.
  • Take part in designing and constructing of tunnels, roads, factories, reservoirs, etc.
  • Participate in the erection of reinforced concrete, structural steel, timber, and masonry structures.

Career Opportunities: On completion, the certificate holder will have access to careers in any of the following sectors: Architectural Technology; Drainage Inspection; Industrial Designing; Quantity Surveying; Town Regional Planning;

Sanitation Engineering; Road Construction Engineering; Civil Construction Engineering; Building Construction.

Please note: The College/Campuses reserve the right only to offer courses/programs justified by student

numbers, to change the location/venue of program offerings, and to cancel the programme/s.