The Construction Registration of Tradesmen (CoreTrade) is a registration scheme administered by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA), for the skilled and experienced construction personnel in the various key construction trades.

Who is eligible for the CoreTrade Registration System?

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 CoreTrade 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 upgrade 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 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.

Aesperon Construction Core Trade Courses

Our Top 3 Courses for CoreTrade

  1. Painting

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. 

Aesperon Construction Core Trade Courses

Who Is CoreTrade For?

As a one-stop service provider, other than giving training and skills assessment to construction workers, we are so pleased to announce that we are also providing professional essential services such as the recruitment of manpower! 

This means that from you can now hire foreign workers from over 10 countries to be construction sector work pass holders and be employed under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act in a fuss-free, fast and dedicated channel— through us!

Here are the various manpower sources: 

(a) Traditional Source (TS) 
(b) PRC
(c) Non-Traditional Sources (NTS)– India– Sri Lanka– Thailand– Bangladesh– Myanmar– Philippines
(d) North Asian sources – Hong Kong (HKSAR passport)– Macau– South Korea– Taiwan
(e) other source countries approved by Ministry Of Manpower (MOM)
– such as Vietnam and many more*!

You may write to us and we can help you with the registration and administrative matters with MOM.

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 choose us?

To start working as a construction worker in Singapore, it is a requirement to possess a skills evaluation certificate.  We have a more than 95% Passing Rate for our certification courses. As we understand that weekdays are mainly the important workdays, many weekend training slots are available in ATTC. Free transportation will be provided as well! (Terms and conditions apply).

If you have any queries, do not hesitate to contact us!

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