Deep Foundation Installer Examination

The examination is 3 hours long. It contains 51 questions and each question is worth 1 point. The required passing grade is 60%. The materials for your use during the examination are provided to you. They are: a pencil, a paper sheet, a calculator, a ruler and an eraser. No other material or reference document is allowed during the examination.

Skill content on which questions may be based

Section 1 – Work organization (42%)

Preparing the work:
- Interpreting workshop plan data
- Determining locations
- Selecting materials and equipment
- Verifying excavation and utility location reports
- Installing location markers
- Inspecting and maintaining equipment
- Handling parts and equipment
- Preventing health and safety hazards on a construction site
Communicating in a work situation:
- Manually signalling manoeuvres to the crane operator
- Giving the welder instructions
Installing pile driving devices on the crane:
- Connecting the lead
- Installing safety cables and accessories on the crane
- Selecting the driving cap
- Installing the driving cap and the hammer
- Installing the lead foot
- Installing the vibratory driver

Section 2 - Pile driving techniques (30%)

Putting in place soldier piles and braces for deep excavations:
- Determination soldier pile driving locations
- Checking the soldier piles vertically, movement, depth and driving refusal
- Welding and oxygen cutting
- Bracing the soldier pile structure
Putting in place various types of piles:
- Method of driving H-beams, tube piles, bored piles, pedestal piles, pre-stressed concrete piles, screw piles
- Checking the various piles verticality, movement, depth and driving refusal

Section 3 – Soil structures (28%)

Building sheet pile retaining wall:
- Making and assembling a pile driving template
- Installing the pile driving template
- Threading sheet piles
- Driving sheet piles
- Checking that a sheet pile structure is watertight
- Stabilizing sheet piles
- Sheet pile extraction method
Putting a diaphragm wall in place:
- Training wall formwork
- Checking training wall concrete work
- Checking the clamshell and the retention system
- Guiding the clamshell’s insertion
- Checking the insertion’s verticality
- Inserting bentonite in the excavation
- Preparing the socket
- Checking the excavation cleanup
- Installing the tube joint or flat joint
- Inserting the reinforcement cage
- Installing hoppers for concrete work
- Joint tube extraction method

Samples of questions for provincial qualification examination.

Deep Foundation Installer Examination

Skill content on which questions may be based

Section 1 – Work organization (42%)

Section 2 - Pile driving techniques (30%)

Section 3 – Soil structures (28%)

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