2025-2026 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Jul 04, 2025  
2025-2026 Pierce College Catalog
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CONST 340 Mechanical, Elec, Plumb, and Fire Suppression 5 credits



Prerequisite Admission into the BAS Construction Management Program.

Course Description
The course examines the building heating, cooling, plumbing, and fire protection systems, and electrical including aspects of design, construction, estimating, terminology, documents, theory, and problem solving. A 2.0 minimum grade is required in this course as a part of the BAS CM program.

Course Content
Electrical Concepts and Components
Plumbing Concepts and Components
Mechanical Concepts and Components
Commercial Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) System Design
Fire Suppression Systems
Coordination of Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, and Fire Suppression (MEPF)

Student Outcomes
  1. Describe the basic electrical concepts and components in a commercial electrical system design in order to understand how the electrical system design interacts with the other project systems.
  2. Interpret basic concepts and components found on plumbing designs in order to integrate the plumbing design into a construction project.  
  3. Evaluate the mechanical concepts and components found in a commercial mechanical system design in order to troubleshoot and resolve system issues.
  4. Assess commercial HVAC system designs in order to match the most appropriate design to a project based on geographic area, building type and the available budget.  
  5. Evaluate a MEPF plan to determine if best practices had been applied in order to mitigate potential issues in system integration.
  6. Create a plan to commission MEPF systems.


Degree Outcomes
Program Outcomes

  • Safety and Accident Prevention: Evaluate the importance of jobsite safety and research strategies that can be used to build a culture of safety.
  • Planning and Organization: Research, implement, and evaluate construction processes using project planning methods and tools.

Core Abilities

  • Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
  • Information Literacy : Graduates will be critical users, creators, and disseminators of information by examining how information is created, valued, and influenced by power and privilege.


Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

Potential Methods
Written assignments
Scenarios
Case studies
Discussion forums
Quizzes
Exams



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