Overview
This unit provides an understanding of issues and methods used in fire safety design, develop an appreciation of the role of fire safety engineering in the building industry and be prepared to communicate effectively with professionals in the building industry about fire safety design.
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 3 - 2024
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 Unit Evaluation Survey
Students found the lesson content and assessments relevant and practical which helped them to get thinking about real world fire safety issues.
We continue to include relevant content and practical assessment items that reflect real-life problems and issues.
Feedback from Unit Evaluation Survey
Students suggested that the lecturer had excellent knowledge and experiences of the real-life practice.
We continue to engage experienced practitioners with relevant real-world knowledge as the unit lecturer.
- assess prescriptive and performance-based solutions for fire safety design using an industry standard software package
- explain causes of fire and smoke in buildings
- understand behaviour of structures and materials in fires, toxic gases, cost and risk, fire fighting, detection and control systems, active and passive fire protection systems and fire compliance requirements and responsibilities
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 20% | |||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 20% | |||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 60% | |||
| 4 - Written Assessment - 0% | |||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 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 - 20% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 60% | ||||||||||
| 4 - Written Assessment - 0% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
Additional Textbook Information
No
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Microphone and camera for use with Zoom
- Word processing software such as MS Word
- Endnote bibliographic software. This is optional for formatting references.
- MS Teams
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
b.zhao@cqu.edu.au
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Topic 1: Introduction and Regulatory Compliance for Design
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Topic 2: Portable Fire Extinguishers, Fire Hose Reels and Fire Blankets
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Topic 3: Emergency Lighting and Illuminated Exit Signs
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Topic 4: Fire Detection Systems
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Topic 5: Smoke Hazard Management Systems
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Topic 6: Passive Fire Safety Systems
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Topic 7: Emergency Lifts and Egress Systems
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There is no online session this week. Enjoy the term break!
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There is no online session this week. Enjoy the term break!
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Topic 8: Bushfire Protection
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Topic 9: Fire Hydrant Systems
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Topic 10: Sprinkler Systems
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Topic 11: Fire Engineered Systems
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Topic 12: Inspections and Audits
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1 Written Assessment
Assessment 1 relates to learning outcome no.1 with implications for learning outcomes no.2 and no.3. It will focus on the correct referencing of performance and design standards. This assessment will assess students’ knowledge on the importance of correctly citing relevant performance standards when evaluating systems and providing defect lists to clients. Students need access to the NCC and Australian Standards in order to complete this assessment. Australian Standards can be accessed through the CQU library.
Week 6 Wednesday (11 Dec 2024) 11:45 pm AEST
Submit a single MS word or PDF file via Assessment Block of the Moodle and allow time for checking the Turnitin score
Week 8 Wednesday (8 Jan 2025)
For all assessments, formatting and presentation are really important.
Technical accuracy and referencing where required is paramount with an overarching requirement for demonstrating your answer / submission / design with clarity.
The length of this assignment is determined by sketches, brief response answers and worked calculations as required, consequently there is not prescribed word limit for this assessment task.
Your assignment should be produced in electronic format either as a single word-processed document, or a single pdf format document.
The assignment will be assessed on the following basis:
- Clarity of expression and comprehensive coverage of issues
- Use of quality supporting documentation as appropriate
- Use of original thought and content
- Overall presentation and ability to communicate using correct spelling, grammar and punctuation and the use of appropriate diagrams and other visual communication
- Demonstration of core knowledge and demonstration of appropriate application of knowledge
- assess prescriptive and performance-based solutions for fire safety design using an industry standard software package
- explain causes of fire and smoke in buildings
- understand behaviour of structures and materials in fires, toxic gases, cost and risk, fire fighting, detection and control systems, active and passive fire protection systems and fire compliance requirements and responsibilities
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Ethical practice
2 Written Assessment
Assessment 2 relates to learning outcomes no.1 to no.3. It will ask students a range of questions seeking them to read and determine results from Standards and the BCA. This assignment relates to fire safety measures and bushfire protection. This assessment will assess students’ knowledge on the importance of checklists for records, commissioning reports for final sign off's, and bushfire attack level valuations.
Week 9 Friday (17 Jan 2025) 11:45 pm AEST
Submit a single MS word or PDF file via Assessment Block of the Moodle and allow time for checking the Turnitin score
Week 11 Friday (31 Jan 2025)
For all assessments, formatting and presentation are really important.
Technical accuracy and referencing where required is paramount with an overarching requirement for demonstrating your answer / submission / design with clarity.
The length of this assignment is determined by sketches, brief response answers and worked calculations as required, consequently there is not prescribed word limit for this assessment task.
Your assignment should be produced in electronic format either as a single word-processed document, or a single pdf format document.
The assignment will be assessed on the following basis:
- Clarity of expression and comprehensive coverage of issues
- Use of quality supporting documentation as appropriate
- Use of original thought and content
- Overall presentation and ability to communicate using correct spelling, grammar and punctuation and the use of appropriate diagrams and other visual communication
- Demonstration of core knowledge and demonstration of appropriate application of knowledge
- assess prescriptive and performance-based solutions for fire safety design using an industry standard software package
- explain causes of fire and smoke in buildings
- understand behaviour of structures and materials in fires, toxic gases, cost and risk, fire fighting, detection and control systems, active and passive fire protection systems and fire compliance requirements and responsibilities
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Ethical practice
3 Written Assessment
Assessment 3 relates to learning outcomes no.1 to no.3. While our role is often educating our external customers about the importance of fire safety, internal customers also need to be educated at times. This assessment will place students in the position of educating, guiding, and convincing a work colleague on the benefits of fire safety. This type of communication can be challenging from experience, as students will soon find out when drafting their responses. As a specialist consultant in fire safety and regulatory matters, you are often placed in the position of encouraging some regulatory authorities to consider the adoption of a harder-line approach regarding fire safety in buildings. Some regulatory authorities operate in a reactive manner towards regulatory matters and fail to see the benefits of a proactive fire safety program. For the purposes of this assessment, students will be asked to prepare a report for the executive management team of a local council to consider the development of a fire safety regulatory team and program at their council.
Week 12 Friday (7 Feb 2025) 11:45 pm AEST
Submit a single MS word or PDF file via Assessment Block of the Moodle and allow time for checking the Turnitin score
Within two weeks of the submission and before the certification of grades.
For all assessments, formatting and presentation are really important.
Technical accuracy and referencing where required is paramount with an overarching requirement for demonstrating your answer / submission / design with clarity.
The length of this assignment is determined by sketches, brief response answers and worked calculations as required, consequently there is not prescribed word limit for this assessment task.
Your assignment should be produced in electronic format either as a single word-processed document, or a single pdf format document.
The assignment will be assessed on the following basis:
- Clarity of expression and comprehensive coverage of issues
- Use of quality supporting documentation as appropriate
- Use of original thought and content
- Overall presentation and ability to communicate using correct spelling, grammar and punctuation and the use of appropriate diagrams and other visual communication
- Demonstration of core knowledge and demonstration of appropriate application of knowledge
- assess prescriptive and performance-based solutions for fire safety design using an industry standard software package
- explain causes of fire and smoke in buildings
- understand behaviour of structures and materials in fires, toxic gases, cost and risk, fire fighting, detection and control systems, active and passive fire protection systems and fire compliance requirements and responsibilities
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Ethical practice
4 Written Assessment
This quiz is a fail/pass assessment item. There will be 20 multiple choice questions. You need to answer at least 10 questions correctly to pass this quiz. The quiz will be accessible from week 11 of the term and remain open for a week and two attempts are allowed for each student.
In order to pass this unit, you need to obtain a pass mark (50%) from this assessment.
Exam Week Wednesday (12 Feb 2025) 11:45 pm AEST
The quiz will remain open for a week and two attempts are allowed for each student
The results will be returned by the system after completion of the quiz
No Assessment Criteria
- assess prescriptive and performance-based solutions for fire safety design using an industry standard software package
- explain causes of fire and smoke in buildings
- understand behaviour of structures and materials in fires, toxic gases, cost and risk, fire fighting, detection and control systems, active and passive fire protection systems and fire compliance requirements and responsibilities
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- 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?
