This is a 22 week QQI Level 5 Course

  • Outline health and safety procedures in a workshop environment
  • Explore the characteristics of a range of materials utilised in furniture production to include natural and man made materials
  •  Identify a range of hand and portable power tools and their application in furniture manufacture
  •  Explore a range of material finishes
  •  Employ workshop resources to construct items of furniture to include selection and use of appropriate hand and portable power tools
  •  Illustrate design ideas through a range of media to include sketching and working drawings
  • Apply furniture production principles to a workshop environment to include construction of a range of material jointing techniques
  •  Select and apply a range of material finishes to include polishes, lacquers, paints and varnishes
  • Contribute to improvements in health and safety procedures in a workshop environment
  • Respond to a given brief to produce an item of furniture
  • Evaluate work produced in response to a specific design brief considering, planning, objectives, preparation and time management.

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