BLCN14041 - Construction Project Planning

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit leads you to learn major areas of planning of a construction project including construction planning and scheduling; the role of the construction planning consultant; developing an initial job using labour, materials, plant and time units from design documentation; estimates and/or Bills of Quantities; using construction planning methodologies and tools such as bar charts, critical path methods, line of balance, cash flow projections; least cost optimization; flagging approval and detailed schedules of sub-contract activities. The choice of software for scheduling and network analysis will be examined as a further added learning experience.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 4
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 2 - 2025

Term 2 - 2025 Profile
Online
Term 2 - 2026 Profile
Online

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

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Past Exams

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Previous Feedback

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 11.11% 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: The lecturer and the Built Environment Team
Feedback
The current unit name does not reflect the actual learning delivered by the unit. It has now become more confusing as Project Management has a unit with the same name—PPMP11002. Hence, a new unit name is proposed as ' Construction Project Planning'.
Recommendation
An Update Unit Proposal will need to be actioned to change the unit name.
Action Taken
The updated unit proposal regarding this matter was approved by the College of Project Management, Built Environment, and Asset Maintenance and Management Course Committee in 2024. The changes have already been implemented in AIMS and other University systems.
Source: An email from a student
Feedback
One student informed that the online session time is clashing with another unit. So, the student can only make the unit session every other week.
Recommendation
It is recommended to arrange the unit timetable minimizing clashes with other units. The unit teaching team will collaborate with the Head of Course - Built Environment and the college administration team to successfully perform the timetabling task.
Action Taken
Such clashes did not experience for the current offering.
Source: Student Feedback- class conversation
Feedback
CL72 students identify that the unit learning helps to apply construction planning concepts and methods in engineering context.
Recommendation
Same teaching method will be adopted for next and future deliveries.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student Email Feedback
Feedback
Students found that the discussion of scheduling methods is very interesting. They have not been aware of the background of other methods than MS Project.
Recommendation
Same teaching method will be adopted for next and future deliveries.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student Email Feedback
Feedback
Some students did not have the access to MS Project on their own.
Recommendation
Recommend students to use the free trial or get the remote desktop app that wirelessly connects to the University computers which has MS Projects. Further support can be sought from TASAC emailing to tasac@cqu.edu.au or calling at 0749309009.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Lecturer and other Built Environment Staff regular meeting discussion
Feedback
Check opportunities of creating dual degrees within the college or school to improve the enrolment numbers.
Recommendation
Head of Course and Built Environment Team is exploring the opportunities liaising with other parties. Necessary actions will be taken upon the feasibility of the collaborations.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes
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