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). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
Term 2 - 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 | 20% |
| 2. Presentation and Written Assessment | 40% |
| 3. Presentation and Written Assessment | 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%).
Past Exams
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
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Term 2 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 13.33% 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 Evaluations
Students report that the lecturer shares up-to-date industry experience and real-world knowledge.
The unit lecturer is an industry professional who shares real world experience with the students. It is recommended that this lecturer continues to lecture this unit.
The unit lecturer for this term was an industry professional who shared up-to-date industry experience and real world knowledge with the students.
Source: Student Evaluations
Students report that feedback provided by the lecturer on the draft designs and by other students on the assessment forums is very helpful in improving the design.
Feedback will continue to be offered on draft designs and the assessment forums will continue to be offered so that students are able to use feedback to identify issues and improve their designs.
Feedback was offered via the assessment forums and during presentations of draft design work to help students improve their designs.
Source: Student Feedback
The unit provides an interesting and challenging opportunity to apply National Constuction Code (NCC), Australian Standards (AS) and Planning requirements and translate that into a design.
Students will continue to be required to apply NCC, AS and Planning requirements to the design of a high rise building.
In Progress
Source: Student Feedback
Students report enjoying the opportunity to combine high rise design with commercial and residential aspects.
The assessment brief will continue to require inclusion of a mix of uses in the high rise design.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Apply design principles to new and refurbished tall and complex buildings.
- Explain design solutions within an environmental, social and community context.
- Research and solve design and legislative issues for tall and complex buildings.
- Discuss appropriate building fabrics, plant, equipment and services to deliver healthy, safe and structurally sound project outcomes.
- Show skills in communicating and presenting design concepts and building solutions.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Presentation and Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Presentation and Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • |
| 3 - Presentation and Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 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 | • | • | • | • | • |
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
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| 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 | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||||