Syllabus Section 4 - Test 2 (construction)

This test focuses on the construction phase and key stages relevant to certificates.

1. How many site visits are you required to do during construction?

At least 5

One every month

As many as you have agreed in your fee proposal

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2. How would you request for a minor change on the design during construction?

Verbally instruct the contractor on site

Through a variation

Though an email directly to the contractor

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3. What do you do when you’re on site and you notice that a contractor is working in a way that is dangerous for the safety of others on site?

Nothing as it’s not my responsibility and authority to manage how contractors operate on site

Report this to the site manager immediately

Contact the HSE and report it immediately

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4. What is the final account?

It’s the amount spent for building the project including unforeseen expenses

It’s the estimated amount that is owed to the contractor at completion

It’s the amount that includes the soft landscape works but excludes the hard landscape works.

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5. What certification would usually be required when you want to enter a construction site?

A valid CSCS card

CMLI certification

That you work for a Landscape Institute registered practice

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6. What does PPE mean in construction?

Professional Protective Equipment

Personal Protective Equipment

Permanent Protective Equipment

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7. When does the Maintenance period start?

At Practical Completion

12 months after Practical Completion

6 months before Practical Completion

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8. How would you know about the various hazards in the construction site you’re visiting?

Through the Risk Assessment you’ve already prepared and submitted

Common sense should make you avoid any apparent hazards

From the site induction

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9. Who is typically responsible for providing you with PPE before visiting a construction site?

Your employer

The site manager

You must buy them yourself

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10. What do you do when during a site inspection you spot that the contractor has not planted some trees according to your detail?

Include this in your report and request that these trees are re-planted according to the detail.

Let him know that he should at least plant the rest according to the detail

Nothing and just hope for the best

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11. A sub-contractor accidentally damages a tree during construction, who needs to pay for its replacement?

The client

The developer

The sub-contractor

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12. When does the Defects liability period start?

At Practical Completion

6 months before Practical Completion

12 months after Practical Completion

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13. What can the contractor do if he doesn’t think the project will be delivered to the agreed completion date?

Ask for a retention

Ask for a variation

Ask for an extension of time

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14. Who long does the Defects liability period usually last?

6 months

12 months

24 months

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15. When do you need to produce the snagging list?

Before the Maintenance period

After the Defects liability period

At Practical Completion

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16. When is the Penultimate Certificate issued?

At Practical Completion

At hand-over

After all the defects have been rectified

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17. What is NOT triggered at Practical Completion?

The Maintenance period

The Rectification period

The Retention period

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18. Which certificate needs to be issued right before issuing the Final Certificate?

The Interim certificate

The Penultimate certificate

The Making Good Defects certificate

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19. Who can authorise an Extension of Time?

The Client

The Principal Designer

The Contract Administrator

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20. Which one of the following is NOT a type of sub-contractor?

Named

Dedicated

Domestic

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Section 4 - Test 2 (Construction)

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