What Are The BCA-Approved Courses?
This CoreTrade scheme is available for both local Singaporean workers and foreign workers with relevant years of experience working in the construction industry in Singapore.
CoreTrade provides a platform to retain better and more experienced personnel by providing a clear career progression path and recognition.
According to the BCA, there are two types of construction personnel a worker may be categorized into:
- Construction Tradesmen – construction workers that are skilled in specific construction trades
- Construction Foreman – also known as a construction supervisor; in charge of coordinating and supervising tradesmen in a specific construction trade
What are the benefits of the Training Course?
Apart from equipping your workers with new knowledge and additional technical skills, your company can benefit by having them recognized by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and Building and Construction Authority (BCA) and upgrading them into Higher-Skilled Workers.
By upgrading your construction personnel with a BCA-approved training course like CoreTrade, employers will pay a lower levy rate and extended maximum period of employment. Instead of 14 years for a Basic-Skilled Worker, Higher-Skilled Workers actually have their period of employment extended to a maximum of 26 years!
Signing your employees up for a familiarisation course provides a lot of benefits to you and your company. You get to keep your company’s high-performing construction personnel with additional training and testing through this CoreTrade Scheme.
No need to worry about re-hiring new workers all the time when you can keep the core group of personnel essential to your business for a long time.
Top BCA-Approved Construction Courses
What you will benefit from this course:
Lowered levies for construction companies when workers are SEC-K certified
Meet BCA 10% RI requirement for construction companies (direct R1)
Longer working years and higher employability in Singapore for construction workers
COURSE CONTENTS
This course aims to provide trainees with knowledge and skills in painting. They will be trained to recognize different types of paint, techniques of application, and proper handling of painting tools and equipment. More importantly, trainees will be taught to practice good painting habits and worksite safety relating to painting. The course consists of the following topics:
General Knowledge & Safety in Painting Works
Painting Materials and Estimation
Methods of Application
Quality & Defects in Painting
Practical Projects
Trainers of different nationalities (Chinese, Bangladeshi, and Indian) will be present to assist workers during the training.
2. PRECAST CONCRETE COMPONENT ERECTION
What you will benefit from this course:
Lowered levies for construction companies when workers are SEC-K certified
Meet BCA 10% RI requirement for construction companies (direct R1)
Longer working years and higher employability in Singapore for construction workers
COURSE CONTENTS
This course consists of practical and theory training sessions covering the following topics:
Handling of PC components
Inspection & quality control
Placements & adjustments
Propping
Safety aspects
Components covered in this course include columns, beams, slabs, staircases, refuse chutes, facades, gable-end walls, and space-adding items.
3. SUSPENDED CEILING INSTALLATION (ACOUSTICAL)
COURSE CONTENTS
These are practical and theory-oriented courses. The lessons comprise workshop practicals, classroom lectures, and video instructions. It teaches the general knowledge of ceiling and drywall installation as well as the practical preparation of suspension and grid components, fabrication of grid work, and installation of ceiling panels. Trainees will be assessed by BCA.
- Methods of fixture installation and tools
- Good practices in suspended ceiling installation and safety
- Practical workshop on the exposed grid and cell-type ceiling
- Practical workshop on clip-on grid ceiling
- Practical workshop on semi-exposed grid ceiling
Trainers of different nationalities (Chinese, Bangladeshi, and Indian) will be present to assist workers during the training.
Alternative BCA-Approved Courses
Here are 3 ways to upskill your foreign workers in the construction sector in Singapore and how they can benefit you directly. You may choose one that best suits your needs and register for one of our most popular courses here.
Multi-Skilling Scheme
As we know, the Multi-Skilling scheme was developed following feedback from the industry on the need for more upgrading pathways for construction workers. It is an alternative pathway for them to progress from “Basic Skilled” R2 workers to “Higher Skilled” R1 workers under the Ministry of Manpower (MOM)’s Foreign Worker Levy.
Multi-Skilling workers offer greater flexibility in deployment on site and hence help to enhance productivity by reducing productivity downtime. This will benefit firms as they will be able to deliver their construction work with lesser workers.
CoreTrade Scheme
While the CoreTrade Scheme recognizes those workers specializing in key construction trades, i.e. possessing “deep” skills, the Multi-Skilling scheme complements the CoreTrade scheme by recognizing experienced workers who are competent in multiple trade skills or have completed 120 training hours of approved safety courses.
Apart from equipping your workers with new knowledge and additional technical skills, your company can benefit by having them recognized by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and Building and Construction Authority (BCA) and upgrading them into Higher-Skilled Workers.
Employers will be able to pay a lower levy rate and an extended maximum period of employment, upon upgrading their construction personnel with a BCA-approved training course like CoreTrade.
SEC(K)
SEC(K), which stands for Skills Evaluation Certificate (Knowledge), is a skills certification framework conducted by the Building and Construction Authority to assess a worker’s competency and skill in a particular construction trade.
Workers can apply for SEC(K) at the BCA Academy or at the BCA Approved Training and Testing Centres (ATTCs). Companies can also apply for their workers to take the 2nd SEC(K) at Overseas Test Centres (OTCs).
In the event that the worker has less than 4 years of construction experience in Singapore and only the first SEC/SEC(K), employers are unable to submit a Multi-Skilling application for the applicant as per the requirement.
Summary
To summarise, the top 3 reasons why you should attend Aesperon Construction’s BCA-Approved Construction Courses are:
How To Apply For Our BCA-Approved Courses?
All you have to do is approach us for pre-registration via the following schemes:
- CoreTrade Scheme
- Multi-Skilling Scheme
- Direct R1 Pathway
- Continuing Education and Training (CET)
- Skills Evaluation Certificate (Knowledge) (SEC(K))
*Subjected to approval by MOM.
Entry Requirements
To check your eligibility for these courses, please check our website here at aesperonconstruction.sg to find out more.
Why Aesperon Construction?
We employ a wide range of training methods to provide courses that span across industries and levels. We collaborate with local and international clients to develop a high-performing and quality syllabus to meet your business requirements, and our courses are designed to equip learners with relevant knowledge to excel in their areas of expertise. Aesperon Construction is a WSQ Approved Training Organisation and we work with BCA-Approved Partners. Our multiple CoreTrade courses have been steadily maintained at a 95% passing rate.
Our trainers are selected from a rigorous process to take trainees through a valuable and meaningful learning journey. We keep our ears close to the ground and are constantly exploring new courses and frameworks that can be used to increase the skillset of our workforce.
