WAEC Block Laying, Brick Laying & Concrete Works Syllabus 2026/2027 & Textbooks

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The WAEC Block Laying, Brick Laying & Concrete Works Syllabus 2026/2027 & Textbooks covers safety, tools, site preparation, materials, and construction principles. It includes topics like site clearing, setting out, materials (sand, cement, water), concrete mixing and application, and formwork for beams, columns, slabs, and staircases. The syllabus requires students to demonstrate knowledge and skills through both theoretical papers and practical tests.

Examination Guidelines

Paper 1: Will consist of forty multiple-choice objective questions all of which are to be answered in 45 minutes for 40 marks.

Paper 2: This Will consist of five short-structured questions. Candidates will be required to answer any four in 1 hour for 60 marks.

Paper 3: It will be a practical test of 3 hours duration for 100 marks. It will be a workpiece involving laying of a total number of blocks not exceeding 30 and where the workpiece is made of bricks only, the total number of bricks shall not exceed 100.

Where the workpiece to be laid is a combination of bricks and blocks, this will not contain more than 20 blocks and 40 bricks. (i.e. in composite walling).

WAEC Block Laying, Brick Laying & Concrete Works Syllabus 2026/2027

S/No.	Contents	Notes
1	Workshop and Site Safety	(i) Various safety rules at work site.(ii) First aids.(iii) Purpose of safety.(iv) Safety regulations (scaffolding, electrical installations, etc).(v) Protective wears.
2	Basic Tools and Equipment	(i) Identification of basic hand tools for blocklaying, bricklaying and concreting including site preparation and levelling tools, finishing tools.(ii) Sketching of basic hand tools.(iii) Uses of basic hand tools and equipment.(iv) Simple maintenance of basic tools and equipment.
3	Site Preparations and Setting-Out	(i) Tools and equipment used for site preparation.(ii) Clearing of building site.(iii) Methods of setting out.(iv) Setting out tools and materials.
4	Manufacture, Application and Properties of Blocks and Bricks	(i) Manufacturing processes of blocks and bricks.(ii) Types of bricks and blocks.(iii) Materials used for blocks and bricks (sand, lime, cement, clay, laterite and water).
5	Concreting Materials	(i) Various constituents of concrete.(ii) Cement – Types of cement.(iii) Definition of fine and coarse aggregates and their differences.(iv) Storage of concrete materials.
6	Formwork for Construction Work	(i) Functions and functional requirements of formwork.(ii) Materials used for formwork.(iii) Advantages of steel and timber formworks.(iv) Construction of formworks for concrete floorslabs, beams, columns, arches, lintels and staircases.(v) Erection and striking of formworks.
7	Concreting Operations	(i) Mix proportions (cement-aggregate ratio; water-cement ratio).(ii) Stages in concreting (batching, mixing, transporting, placing, curing).(iii) Methods of transporting wet concrete.(iv) Testing of concrete.(v) Properties of concrete.(vi) Methods of making construction joints in concrete elements (beams, columns, concrete roofs and slabs).(vii) Need for concrete reinforcement.(viii) Methods of reinforcing concrete elements.(ix) Types of steel reinforcement bars.(x) Casting and curing of concrete structures (in-situ and precast concrete).
8	Basic Principles of Substructure Construction Work Including Ground Floors	(i) Types of soil.(ii) Definitions of site and soil investigation.(iii) Definition of bearing capacity of soil.(iv) Definition of foundation, types and uses.(v) Definitions of ground floors, types, uses and construction.(vi) Materials for D.P.C. and D.P.M.(vii) Differences between D.P.C. and D.P.M.(viii) Methods of placing and positioning D.P.C. in walls.
9	Upper Floors	(i) Functions and types of floors.(ii) Methods of floor construction.(iii) Types of flooring and their applications.
10	Walls	(i) Functions and types of walls.(ii) Walling materials.(iii) Common bonds in brick/block walls.(iv) Mortar (types, mixing methods and ratios).(v) Differences between pointing and jointing.(vi) Types of pointing and jointing.
11	Openings in Walls	(i) Functions and types of openings.(ii) Materials used for lintels, beams, and arches.(iii) Windows and doors – functions and types; materials; methods of fixing.(iv) Ironmongery for doors and windows.
12	Stairs Construction	(i) Types of stairs.(ii) Construction of a straight flight stair.
13	Scaffold and Scaffolding	(i) Types of scaffolds.(ii) Scaffold components.(iii) Hoisting equipment.(iv) Safety regulation.
14	Finishes	(i) Types of finishes.(ii) Types of finishing materials.(iii) Characteristics of finishing materials.(iv) Uses of finishing materials.(v) Care and maintenance of finishes.
15	Construction of Drainage System	(i) Principles of good drainage system.(ii) Types of drainage system.(iii) Differences between a sewer and a drain.(iv) Simple sketches of septic tank, soakaway pit, inspection chamber, manhole and cesspool.(v) Surface drainage.(vi) Method of laying drain pipes to a specified gradient.
16	Kerbs	(i) Functions and types of kerbs.(ii) Materials used in production of kerbs.(iii) Methods of laying precast concrete kerbs.
17	Business Opportunities in Building	(i) Opportunities in building industry.(ii) Procedures for establishing businesses in the industry.(iii) Requirements for managing construction business.(iv) Estimating the cost of construction jobs.(v) Principles and techniques of book-keeping.