Overview
This unit will develop your knowledge on the properties of building materials. You will also examine testing (both destructive and non-destructive) of timber, concrete, and metals in relation to: Timber - grading, strength tests, durability and protection of timber products; Concrete - tests on aggregates, fresh and hardened concrete properties, durability studies and test methods, and concrete protection; and Metal - ferrous and non-ferrous metal and its alloys, corrosion of metals and protection, and strength properties tests. This unit also develops your understanding of: Protection from corrosion and destruction; Identifying the suitable grade material for the site conditions; and Relevant Australian and international Standards. You will be provided with an introduction to: the development and application of materials from industry by-products and re-cycling of materials and life-cycle analysis of materials.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2017
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Moodle course evaluaton
• BEST ASPECTS: Rema was willing to help and replied to any questions in a timely manner. The Collaborate Live sessions were extremely valuable! • This course was a great foundation unit, were the study guide allowing us to look at basic materials, their usage in construction and some of their basic properties, which were fairly comprehensive and useful • Like the assessments and having two of the three broken into two parts with one being a quiz is a good idea.
Good to know that the content is useful and the assessment items were suitable. Thank you for your feedback. Will continue to do my level best.
Feedback from Moodle course evaluaton
ASPECTS NEED ATTENTION • Links in the study materials didn’t work. • Prefer to have an introduction to the Australian Standards, particularly as some people don't come from a Building background and assignment required standards references.
Thanks for the feedback. Will check the links in the study guide. Will try to include an introductory session on library and standards references.
- Explain building materials, including the types, manufacturing process, properties, usage in construction and the life cycle analysis.
- Apply the Australian and international standards relevant to building materials.
- Conduct a literature review to answer specific questions related to building materials.
- Report on building materials through effective written communication.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 40% | ||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Communication | ||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 40% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
Fundamental Building Materials
Edition: 4th (2009)
Authors: Ward-Harvey, K
Universal-Publishers
Florida Florida , USA
Binding: Hardcover
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Microsoft Office
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
r.dhanasekar@cqu.edu.au
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Timber and timber products
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Begin Workbook
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Timber and timber products
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Timber and timber products
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Concrete and introduction to blocks
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Concrete and introduction to blocks
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Concrete and introduction to blocks
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Concrete and introduction to blocks
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Metallic material
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Metallic material
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Metallic material
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Resource efficiency
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Resource efficiency
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Program review period (30 May 11 - 1 June 11)
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1 Written Assessment
This assessment questions cover timber as a building material including its grading, properties, testing, selection and usage in construction. This assessment has two parts namely Part-A (assignment) and Part-B (online multiple choice test). Part-A weighting is 20 marks and Part-B weighting is 10 marks.
Week 5 Wednesday (5 Apr 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 7 Wednesday (26 Apr 2017)
Part A
Content 90 % - Demonstration of understanding of the above building material’s properties, behaviour and the suitability for usage in construction, selection of the material to solve problems with scientific reasoning, application of material related theory to practice.
Presentation 5% - Appropriate use of information technology to present the assignment in the required format. Demonstration of student’s ability to communicate effectively in writing.
Reference 5% - Demonstration of student’s ability to collect information from text, standards, publications and web including & other than the given references from the study materials.
Part B
Content 100 % Select the correct answer from the multiple choices
- Explain building materials, including the types, manufacturing process, properties, usage in construction and the life cycle analysis.
- Apply the Australian and international standards relevant to building materials.
- Conduct a literature review to answer specific questions related to building materials.
- Report on building materials through effective written communication.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
2 Written Assessment
This assessment question cover the content including properties of and selection of concrete, testing of concrete ingredients, fresh and hardened concrete, and durability of concrete as building material.
This Assessment needs case study. Case study stands for the observation and analysis of an ongoing construction (option 1) or recently finished construction (option 2). Examples from literature can be used only as reference material to support the case study information of this assessment item.
Week 9 Wednesday (10 May 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 11 Wednesday (24 May 2017)
Content 90 % - Demonstration of understanding of the above building material’s properties, behaviour and the suitability for usage in construction, selection of the material to solve problems with scientific reasoning, application of material related theory to practice.
Presentation 5% - Appropriate use of information technology to present the assignment in the required format. Demonstration of student’s ability to communicate effectively in writing.
Reference 5% - Demonstration of student’s ability to collect information from text, standards, publications and web including & other than the given references from the study materials.
- Explain building materials, including the types, manufacturing process, properties, usage in construction and the life cycle analysis.
- Apply the Australian and international standards relevant to building materials.
- Conduct a literature review to answer specific questions related to building materials.
- Report on building materials through effective written communication.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
3 Written Assessment
This assessment item has questions from the metal manufacturing process, properties, selection and application of ferrous and non-ferrous metals in construction and also including the content of life cycle analysis and resource efficiency of building materials. This assessment has two parts namely Part-A (assignment) and Part-B (online multiple choice test). Part-A weighting is 25 marks and Part-B weighting is 15 marks.
Review/Exam Week Wednesday (7 June 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
5.00PM on 06 July Wednesday - University Vacation period
Part A
Content 90 % - Demonstration of understanding of the above building material’s properties, behaviour and the suitability for usage in construction, selection of the material to solve problems with scientific reasoning, application of material related theory to practice.
Presentation 5% - Appropriate use of information technology to present the assignment in the required format. Demonstration of student’s ability to communicate effectively in writing.
Reference 5% - Demonstration of student’s ability to collect information from text, standards, publications and web including & other than the given references from the study materials.
Part B
Content 100 % Select the correct answer from the multiple choices
- Explain building materials, including the types, manufacturing process, properties, usage in construction and the life cycle analysis.
- Apply the Australian and international standards relevant to building materials.
- Conduct a literature review to answer specific questions related to building materials.
- Report on building materials through effective written communication.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
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What is a breach of academic integrity?
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Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
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