Leveling and Transits

As you gain skills as a cement mason, you’ll move from finishing concrete to building formwork and eventually laying out building sites. As you have learned in other units, it is vitally important that building lines be laid out accurately, that screeds are set to the proper grade, and that driveways and slabs have the proper fall.  All of these actions depend on the skill of the cement mason using the level or transit. In this unit you’ll learn the proper way to set up an instrument, take readings, and record them accurately.