• Online course supporting Garden and Landscape Engineering.
  • Amenity Horticulture  

    Aesthetic principles 
    Climbers 
    Colour harmonies 
    The colour wheel 
    Form, habit and texture 
    Hedges 
    Herbaceous perennials 
    Introduction to site analysis 
    Introduction to soils 
    Maintenance of a hedge 
    Maintenance of a lawn 
    Maintenance of annuals for bedding 
    Maintenance of herbaceous perennials 
    Maintenance of plants in pots 
    Maintenance of shrubs and small trees 
    Planning garden maintenance 
    Plant handling 
    Plant selection and quality 
    Plant sources 
    Plant specification 
    Planting designer 
    Principles of planting design 
    Pruning and training 
    Pruning systems 
    Pruning tools and training equipment 
    Reasons for pruning 
    Shrubs 
    Soil analysis 
    Soil formation processes 
    Topiary 
    Trees 
    Turf 
    Understanding pruning 
    Weathering processes 
    Weed control - Health and safety 
    Weed prevention and mechanical control 
    Seedlings and young weeds 
    Types of weed 
    Weed database 
    What is a weed? 
    Principles of balance, contrast and proportion 
    Principles of dominance, harmony and rhythm 
    Climate 

  • Construction

    Building Design  
    A time-line of building 
    Designing with Colour 

    Construction Operations 
    Late delivery - bricks 
    Change of plan - concrete 

    Construction
    Aggregate quarry tour 
    Back safety 
    Brick bonds 
    Brick classification 
    Brick damage 
    Brickwork dimensions 
    Construction materials quiz 
    Drawings - scale 
    Drawing symbols database 
    Drawing tool 
    Drawing types 
    Introduction to bulk building materials 
    Making bricks 
    Making cement 
    Building Calculator 
    The parts of a brick 
    Properties of building materials 
    Timber processing 
    Why bricks? 
    Timbers of the world

    Interior design, Fitting and Decoration
    Colour design tool
     
    Construction Management 
    Codes of Practice - a meeting 
    Working conditions 
    Programming construction work 
    Site administration 
    Take messages for colleagues 
    Visitor on site 
    Contribute to general site safety 

    Property: Surveying, planning, development
    Booking levels level 3
    Surveying equipment linked with terminology level 3