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2024-2025 Arapahoe Community College Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Arapahoe Community College Catalog

AEC 1520 - Construction Materials and Systems


3 Credits

Examines building materials and construction techniques. Topics include a study of soils, concrete, brick, masonry, steel, timber, and plastics and a study of types of building structural systems and components. Principles of interpreting light commercial construction drawings (blueprints) for structural and trade information are also introduced. This course was previously listed as AEC 121.

Prerequisite(s): College Readiness in English and Quantitative Literacy Math