This unit provides an introduction to technical and compliance aspects of commercial sector building maintenance and re-use, and the role of the construction manager including: the application and relevance of Post Occupancy Evaluations; introduction to common building pathologies and their treatment; role of construction detailing in life cycle building maintenance including construction for disassembly; introduction to principles of auditing of both infrastructure and services; retrofitting of building fabric and services (including heritage buildings).

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.

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 Student feedback

The assignments were quite broad in what they were asking, and the feedback received for each assignment was specific as to what to focus on.

The assignment questions were deliberately broad and not focused on a specific profession or trade to allow students to formulate an answer more relevant to their situation based on core ideas discussed during tutorials and answers to questions raised in the MS Team that were visible to all students. It will be made clear that students should not rely 100% on the written assignment brief alone, but attend the tutorials and ask questions. A revised rubric was circulated to students before each assignment was due.

Feedback from Student feedback

The assignments for this subject do not reflect the construction industry. In four years of working in the industry, a report has never been required. The assignments placed too much weight on the formatting of the report.

This is probably a comment from a junior cadet or tradesperson who has not reached a position requiring formal communication skills. The formatting was minimally weighted, although many track changes comments were provided for guidance. The majority of students recognised the benefit of learning a report presentation. Assignment professional report formatting will continue unchanged in 2024.

Feedback from Student feedback

Using MS Teams and not putting all of the material on the CQUniversity online platform was frustrating. The team's page was disorganised.

The primary unit information was and will continue to be hosted in Moodle and duplicated in MS Teams. The impression of disorganisation is aimed at the General comment stream, where many peripheral ideas are discussed and shared. The weekly streams will focus on that week's lecture and tutorial issues.

Feedback from Student feedback

MS Teams was very helpful as it is widely used at work. It provided fast responses to questions and created a team environment. Many students and the lecturer always responded quickly, even at weekends, which was very helpful as this was when many students worked on the assignments.

MS Teams will continue to be used for engagement, student support and team building. Core information and learning materials will always remain in Moodle as a primary first point of call.

Feedback from Lecturer

Only as small number of students regularly attended the tutorials or engaged with the MS Team.

This is a continuing concern; all previous attempts to encourage attendance and engagement have not worked. Consideration should now be given to not recording tutorials to promote attendance. The tutorials are run in the evenings to allow students who work to attend. MS Teams does provide individual "tutorials" to students who use it.