This Rate Training Manual (Textbook) and Nonresident Career Course form a correspondence, self-study package to provide information related to tasks assigned to Builders Third and Second Class. Focus is on constructing, maintaining, and repairing wooden, concrete, and masonry structures, concrete pavement, and waterfront and underwater structures; performing rough and finish carpentry; erecting or repairing waterfront structures, wooden and concrete bridges and trestles; fabricating and erecting forms; mixing, placing, and finishing concrete; laying and setting masonry; and painting or varnishing new and refinished surfaces. The 16 chapters in the text are Construction Administration; Drawings and Specifications; Woodworking Shop and Field Tools; Woodworking: Materials and Methods; Fiber Line, Wire Rope, and Scaffolding; Leveling, Grading, and Excavating; Concrete; Masonry; Light Frame Construction: Floor and Wall; Roof Framing; Exterior Finish; Interior Finish; Plastering; Stuccoing, and Ceramic Tile; Paints and Preservatives; Advanced Base Field Structures; and Heavy Construction. The Nonresident Career Course follows the index. It contains 18 assignment and learning objectives with related sets of teaching items to be answered. Learning objectives and items are based on subject matter or study material in the textbook. (YLB)