TAFE Building and Trades

Hi everyone, I'm Jess and I'm going to give you a tour today of RMIT's trade facilities. We work really close with the industry to give the students their best skills possible that they can use in the workplace. We also offer apprenticeships, pre-apprenticeships, and they are under the fields of plumbing, gasfitting, air conditioning and electrical so we'll go take a look now.

This is our sandpit area. We use it for the plumbing and carpentry students and accommodates about 15 people. Basically simulates a construction site before any building has taken place. Plumbing students use it to learn Trench Shoring, drainage work and doing water meters to buildings. The carpentry students use it for form work. So let's take a look around. 

This is our nice big roofing room. This is where our students learn to do cutting and joining of sheet metal and also other forms of sheet metal work. Over here we have our guillotine, which we use that to cut our sheet metal to what sizes we need for our work. And on this side we have our pan break folder, which is a folding machine that folds our sheet metal to the degrees we need to work with our projects. Over on this we put some facial on this to learn how to do facial boarding. 

This is our welding and pre op room we do the steel welding cutting and joining also do brazing of copper and gas welding.  

So this is our building and construction area also caters for the carpentry students to do their work. They also supply us with power tools and hand tools, such as hand saws, hammers and chisels and then grinders, circular saws and drills. And it also has enough room to construct the elements like floors, walls and roofs. 

We are now in room 38. This is where our students learn how to do telecommunication wiring and also normal domestic house wiring. Things like doing power circuits and surface lighting. And they also do all their fixings up on these boards.  

So in here is where students get to learn how to wire up motors and they also get to learn how to wire up control circuits.

This is our refrigeration room. This is where students learn lots of different types of refrigeration. As you can see, there's plenty of material and tools for them to learn with.  

Here we have our air conditioning lab. Over here we have the AC stands and then over here we have the workbench which is where students learn to install units. They also learn to the pipe work, and that includes the welding, flaring, and they also learn to look for leaks and faults in the units. So let's go have a look at what they're doing. 

So this is a welding bay where students learn how to do brazing with multiple various lengths of copper. So as you can see, this is what he's doing over here. 

We’re out in Carlton. It's quite easy to get to because it’s very central you can ride your bike, you can get transport, you can drive your car, we've got a parking block down there to park at and for your morning tea, lunch, whatever, we have plenty of cafes up this way. And then we also have the lounge area over there if you want to sit inside and then we also have the gaming room over there if you want to play games during your lunch breaks. 

I hope you enjoyed the Trades tour today. If you have any further questions, just talk to Study@RMIT and hope to see you soon!