Overview
This unit aims to develop an understanding of the fundamentals of auditing building layouts, fabric, detailing for regulatory and best-practice performance through design, construction and refurbishment phases of building projects.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
BLAR12034 Building Legislation 1 or BLAR11051 Construction Legislation 1.
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 3 - 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 – student evaluation.
I thought some of the study guide could have expanded more on the information required in the assessments.
Learning resources can be reviewed before the next offering.
Feedback from Moodle – student evaluation.
Clear and consise powerpoint presentations which were all released at the beginning of the unit allowed greater flexibility in terms of 'getting ahead'. Response times for any queries were extremely fast and clear, with the offer of ongoing support also a massive plus. Any brief correspondence and it is easy to see that Stephen is passionate about what he does and really wants to impart knowledge and assist students.
Maintain the current delivery strategy.
- Discuss the difference between building inspections, audits and condition assessments.
- Organise an inspection/audit/assessment from engagement to finalisation.
- Manage inspections of buildings subject of complaints and disputes.
- Explain the benefits of preventative maintenance of structures.
- Identify basic structural and building environment defects.
- Develop professional and comprehensive defect and recommendation reports.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 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 | 5 | 6 | |
| 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
AS4349 Inspection of buildings
(2007)
Authors: Standards Australia
Standards Australia
Sydney Sydney , NSW , Australia
Binding: Hardcover
AS4655 Fire safety audits
(2005)
Authors: Standards Australia
Standards Australia
Sydney Sydney , NSW , Australia
Binding: Hardcover
National Construction Code series
(2016)
Authors: Australian Building Codes Board
Australian Building Codes Board
Canberra Canberra , ACT , Australia
Binding: Hardcover
Additional Textbook Information
The National Construction Code is available to students online.
Visit the Australian Building Codes Board at http://www.abcb.gov.au/ for registration and download.
Australian Standards can be accessed via the CQUniversity Library website.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- MS Office or equivalent software
- USB Headset (microphone speaker combo)
- Web camera (webcam)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
k.j.stone@cqu.edu.au
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Topic 1: Inspections and audits.
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Topic 2: Management of information and organisation of project role.
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Topic 3: Fixed structure asset management.
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Topic 4: Complaint and dispute investigation and management.
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No online session - enjoy the break!
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Topic 5: Condition assessments of domestic buildings.
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Topic 6: Condition assessments of non-domestic buildings.
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Topic 7: Termite and pest inspections.
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Topic 8: Service audits
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Topic 9: Damp penetration and condensation.
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Topic 10: Structure analysis.
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Topic 11: Post disaster / incident auditing.
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Topic 12: Report writing.
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Relax - there is no exam!
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1 Written Assessment
Week 4 Friday (1 Dec 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
Submit via the assessment portal on the Moodle home page
Week 6 Friday (22 Dec 2017)
The assessment will address the following attributes:
- Clarity & succinctness of expression
- Adequate coverage of topics discussed
- Use of supporting information where appropriate and associated references.
- Original thought.
- Overall presentation and the ability to communicate using correct spelling, grammar and punctuation.
- Where appropriate the use of graphs, illustrations and other diagrams that visually support the context of your submission.
- Demonstration of the core knowledge associated with this course and appropriate application of this knowledge.
Your assessment should be produced in electronic format.
Before or on the nominated due date, upload your work following the on-screen instructions.
Your submission will be processed through the similarity detection software, Turnitin. You may amend your work based on the detection report.
You must ensure that the submission is your own and that any cited work has been correctly referenced as per the CQU requirements.
- Discuss the difference between building inspections, audits and condition assessments.
- Organise an inspection/audit/assessment from engagement to finalisation.
- Manage inspections of buildings subject of complaints and disputes.
- Explain the benefits of preventative maintenance of structures.
- Identify basic structural and building environment defects.
- Develop professional and comprehensive defect and recommendation reports.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Ethical practice
2 Written Assessment
Week 8 Friday (12 Jan 2018) 11:45 pm AEST
Submit via the assessment portal on the Moodle home page
Week 10 Friday (26 Jan 2018)
The assessment will address the following attributes:
- Clarity & succinctness of expression
- Adequate coverage of topics discussed
- Use of supporting information where appropriate and associated references.
- Original thought.
- Overall presentation and the ability to communicate using correct spelling, grammar and punctuation.
- Where appropriate the use of graphs, illustrations and other diagrams that visually support the context of your submission.
- Demonstration of the core knowledge associated with this course and appropriate application of this knowledge.
Your assessment should be produced in electronic format.
Before or on the nominated due date, upload your work following the on-screen instructions.
Your submission will be processed through the similarity detection software, Turnitin. You may amend your work based on the detection report.
You must ensure that the submission is your own and that any cited work has been correctly referenced as per the CQU requirements.
- Discuss the difference between building inspections, audits and condition assessments.
- Organise an inspection/audit/assessment from engagement to finalisation.
- Manage inspections of buildings subject of complaints and disputes.
- Explain the benefits of preventative maintenance of structures.
- Identify basic structural and building environment defects.
- Develop professional and comprehensive defect and recommendation reports.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Ethical practice
3 Written Assessment
Exam Week Friday (16 Feb 2018) 11:45 pm AEST
Submit via the assessment portal on the Moodle home page
Exam Week Friday (16 Feb 2018)
At certification of grades.
The assessment will address the following attributes:
- Clarity & succinctness of expression
- Adequate coverage of topics discussed
- Use of supporting information where appropriate and associated references.
- Original thought.
- Overall presentation and the ability to communicate using correct spelling, grammar and punctuation.
- Where appropriate the use of graphs, illustrations and other diagrams that visually support the context of your submission.
- Demonstration of the core knowledge associated with this course and appropriate application of this knowledge.
Your assessment should be produced in electronic format.
Before or on the nominated due date, upload your work following the on-screen instructions.
Your submission will be processed through the similarity detection software, Turnitin. You may amend your work based on the detection report.
You must ensure that the submission is your own and that any cited work has been correctly referenced as per the CQU requirements.
- Discuss the difference between building inspections, audits and condition assessments.
- Organise an inspection/audit/assessment from engagement to finalisation.
- Manage inspections of buildings subject of complaints and disputes.
- Explain the benefits of preventative maintenance of structures.
- Identify basic structural and building environment defects.
- Develop professional and comprehensive defect and recommendation reports.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Ethical practice
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
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.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
