BLCN12038 - Project Estimating

General Information

Unit Synopsis

In this unit, you will learn about the history of the building and construction industry, the importance of preparing accurate cost estimates, the basic cost components integral to building projects and the development of cost estimates for projects at different stages of their life cycle including feasibility studies, procurement, retrofitting and 'change of use'. You will have the opportunity to prepare partial cost estimates for competitive tenders, use tendering strategies, discuss successful and unsuccessful tenders, and capture tendering data into cost monitoring systems.

Details

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

Pre-requisites:

  1. BLAR11049: Built Environment Communications and Skills or
  2. COMM11003: Professional and Technical Communication or
  3. ENEG11005: Fundamentals of Professional Engineering

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 3 - 2024

Term 2 - 2025 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

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 30%
2. Written Assessment 30%
3. Online Test 40%

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

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2021 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 60.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 55.56% 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: Student evaluation
Feedback
Students lacking construction industry experience expressed difficulty with industry specific terminology.
Recommendation
Via the CQU library, students have access to Australian Standards HB50 Glossary of building terms. A reminder note will be added under the "learning community" tile in Moodle.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
University library (to) have access to the latest version of the textbook.
Recommendation
CQU library has e-book access to 4th and 5th editions of the Brook text.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
A beneficial aspect of the unit was learning about and using the Rawlinsons cost guide.
Recommendation
Access to and using construction industry-based cost books are part of the unit’s learning journey.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Explain the general history of the construction industry and the role of estimators in the construction industry
  2. Apply cost planning principles and develop construction cost estimates for building practice
  3. Evaluate typical building life cycles and the application of different types of building cost estimates at different times in the cycle
  4. Assess activities involved in the preparation of a detailed building estimate and its development into a building tender
  5. Apply bidding and tendering principles to appraise tender strategies and formulate actions for successful and unsuccessful tenders
  6. Judge the relationship(s) between project outcomes and tenders ensuring the lessons learned are incorporated into a contractor's intellectual capital.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
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