Unit Synopsis
This unit will develop your understanding of the roles and responsibilities associated with the preparation of contract documents including: Working Drawings; Specifications and specified bills; Schedules including fixtures, door and colour schedules; Integration of Australian Standards in the documentation package. It will introduce requirements for: Client sign-off; Coordination of design and consultancy team members; Implementation of quality procedures; Approvals processes; This unit will also consider the role of: non-traditional documentation forms; performance-based documentation.
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 |
Prerequisite: BLAR12036 Building Design 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). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
Term 3 - 2026 Profile
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.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Presentation and Written Assessment | 30% |
| 2. Presentation and Written Assessment | 35% |
| 3. Presentation and Written Assessment | 35% |
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%).
Past Exams
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site .
Term 3 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 50.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 18.18% 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: Communicate with students
The feedback should be more constructive and returned faster.
Mark assignments within 14 days after the due date and provide constructive feedback.
The lecturer marked assignments within 14 days.
Source: Unite evaluation
CAD knowledge is required for this unit.
ArchiStar platform will be used in the teaching of this unit.
Use ArchiStar in the delivery of this unit.
Source: Unit evaluation
Some learning material is very old. Proving some relevant technical data/engineering information would be beneficial to the details stage assignments
The learning materials will be updated to include the latest technical data and information.
In Progress
Source: Unit evaluation
The feedback on the assignment task sheet and marking rubric was too brief and lacks sufficient information to successfully do the assignment. When I asked for further feedback I didn't receive a timely enough reply.
Provide more detailed feedback in a timely manner and reply to students' queries promptly.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Prepare working drawings from a design sketch
- Formulate and implement quality management policies for documentation
- Identify and discuss the role of members of the design team including consultants
- Identify and prepare the documentation required to obtain a building approval
- Solve routine and unfamiliar problems using information, technology, logic and ethical decision making
- Practice personal and interpersonal skills
- Use effectively a range of appropriate communication modes.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
| 1 - Presentation and Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Presentation and Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| 3 - Presentation and Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |
| 1 - Presentation and Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||||
| 2 - Presentation and Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||||
| 3 - Presentation and Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||||