BLAR13037 - Building Design 2

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit will provide you with an understanding of environmentally appropriate design and planning solutions used in new and refurbished multi-story residential and commercial buildings. You will learn about energy and resource efficiency, universal access, building fabric and services audits, and statutory, planning and heritage considerations. You will be required to establish a mentoring relationship with a professional building engineer. You should have completed previous introductory studies in building design to ensure an adequate level of entry.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Prereq: BLAR12036 or [BLAR14015 & BLAR13017]

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).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 2 - 2023

Term 2 - 2023 Profile
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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).

Assessment Overview

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.

Assessment Tasks

This information will not be available until 8 weeks before term.
To see assessment details from an earlier availability, please search via a previous term.

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

Past Exams

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2021 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 4.8 (on a 5 point Likert scale), based on a 62.5% response rate.

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.

Source: "Have Your Say" Feedback
Feedback
The forums get the students communicating and collaborating.
Recommendation
The forums will continue to be used.
Action Taken
The forums are and will remain fully integrated into the assessment tasks.
Source: "Have Your Say" Feedback
Feedback
Well developed lesson plans and resources to achieve the desired learning outcomes getting students to really think about what they are creating.
Recommendation
The resources and lesson plans will continue to be offered and subject to continuous review to ensure that they are up to date.
Action Taken
The resources and lesson plans continue to be offered to achieve the desired learning outcomes and are subject to continuous review and improvement.
Source: "Have Your Say" Feedback
Feedback
The assessment task is a great way to provide students with a real-world simulation of a high rise development with assessments that follow on from each other.
Recommendation
The assessment task will continue to be offered in this format.
Action Taken
The assessment continues to focus on the design of a tall and complex high rise building simulating a real-world project with assessments that follow on from each other.
Source: "Have Your Say" Feedback
Feedback
For students with no previous drafting or CAD experience, it would be very useful to have access to a course in basic drafting before enrolling in this degree. This would have been useful for this and the other building design unit in the course.
Recommendation
The University now offers ArchiStar access to students to support the acquisition of CAD skills. Further to this, the University is currently considering the development of a proposal to include a CAD unit in the Building Design courses that would serve as a prerequisite to building design studio units.
Action Taken
ArchiStar continues to be available to help students learn CAD and a CAD drafting unit is currently being developed.
Source: Student evaluations
Feedback
The unit provides the opportunity to better understand the relationships between building codes, Australian standards and planning scheme requirements and translate that into a design.
Recommendation
The unit will continue to focus on the application of various regulatory requirements to a design.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: Student evaluations
Feedback
The exposure to working on the design of a high rise building was an invaluable learning experience and the support provided by the lecturer and coordinator was excellent.
Recommendation
The unit will continue to revolve around the design of a tall and complex high rise building with support from the lecturer and the coordinator.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: Student evaluations
Feedback
A CAD unit would be very useful so that students have more time to focus on designing to meet the regulations.
Recommendation
ArchiStar continues to be available to help students learn CAD and a CAD drafting unit is currently being developed.
Action Taken
Nil.
Unit learning Outcomes
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To see Learning Outcomes from an earlier availability, please search via a previous term.