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This Lantra-accredited Customised Award is exclusively developed and delivered by a Lantra-approved Training Provider, who meets our quality standards. The course is specifically tailored to meet learners’ needs. For further details about the course content and delivery locations, please contact the Training Provider using the details provided below.
The minimum age to undertake this course is 16.
The outline of the course is to learn the fundamentals of a systems operation, components, efficient use, set-up, maintenance, and technology.
This includes learning practical skills to install and set-up valves, sprinklers, and pipework.
The finer details
The course sessions include:
- Understand the purpose of Turfgrass Irrigation
- Understand safe operation of an irrigation system
- Understand water sources for irrigation
- Identify the components of an irrigation system
- Understand pipe materials and joints
- Understand the fundamentals of shut down and pressurising the irrigation system
- How to identify faults on the system, sprinklers and electrical
- Understand flow and precipitation rates from valves and sprinklers
- Understand integrated irrigation technology
- How to install and set-up sprinklers and valves,
- How to join irrigation cables
- How to connect compression and glue irrigation pipework
Worth noting: Irrigation design is not included in this course; however, a separate top-up course in automatic irrigation design is available, 'Turfgrass Irrigation Design (Part Two)'
Delivery method
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Who should attend?
Turfgrass professionals and those whom maintain turf irrigation systems and/or wish to develop their skills in irrigation.
What will be covered?
The outline of the course is to learn the fundamentals of a systems operation, components, efficient use, set-up, maintenance, and technology.
This includes learning practical skills to install and set-up valves, sprinklers, and pipework.
- Understand the purpose of Turfgrass Irrigation
- Understand safe operation of an irrigation system
- Understand water sources for irrigation
- Identify the components of an irrigation system
- Understand pipe materials and joints
- Understand the fundamentals of shut down and pressurising the irrigation system
- How to identify faults on the system, sprinklers and electrical
- Understand flow and precipitation rates from valves and sprinklers
- Understand integrated irrigation technology
- How to install and set-up sprinklers and valves,
- How to join irrigation cables
- How to connect compression and glue irrigation pipework
Worth noting: Irrigation design is not included in this course; however, a separate top-up course in automatic irrigation design is available, 'Turfgrass Irrigation Design (Part Two)'
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