BLSV12020 - Building Infrastructure Audits

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit aims to develop an understanding of the fundamentals of auditing building layouts, fabric, detailing for regulatory and best-practice performance through design, construction and refurbishment phases of building projects.

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

BLAR12034 Building Legislation 1 or BLAR11051 Construction Legislation 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).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2024

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Term 3 - 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. 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%).

Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

Past Exams

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Previous Feedback

Term 3 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 19.23% 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 Unit Teaching Evaluations (SUTE)
Feedback
It is suggested to continue to include contemporary case studies from industry for learning and assessment materials.
Recommendation
The assessment design of the next delivery will be considered based on further real life examples/ practice.
Action Taken
Assessment questions included real life examples/ practice situations to review and analyze and formulate reports based on the outcomes/ outputs. Students' positive engagement during the assessment discussions reflect the action taken is quite effective.
Source: Student Unit Teaching Evaluations (SUTE)
Feedback
Students find it is effective studying the unit with a practicing professional as the unit lecturer.
Recommendation
An industry practitioner is engaging in this unit teaching over last five years and more. The same strategy recommended to be applied for the next delivery/ future deliveries.
Action Taken
Same lecturer with extensive industry experience delivered the current offering. All positive comments on the lecturer in SUTE indicates the action is effective and successful.
Source: SUTE Unit Comments Report- T3- 2023
Feedback
Students found that the lecturer is a knowledgeable and industry practitioner. They appreciated his easy to understand teaching style and the commitment to answer students' questions at the earliest.
Recommendation
Engagement of same lecturer is recommended for next/ future deliveries. If he is unavailable, it is recommended for the new lecturer to adopt same teaching strategies he applied.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Built Environment Team Grade Assessment Review Meeting Notes
Feedback
The unit is regularly receiving higher percentage of HDs and Ds. Please check whether this is genuinely due to the intellectual knowledge of the cohort or inconsistency of assessment tasks which requires challenging questions and firm marking rubric application.
Recommendation
It is recommended to revisit marking rubrics and marking criteria, as well as introduce challenging assessment questions referring to new industry practices and regulatory changes.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

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

  1. Discuss the difference between building inspections, audits and condition assessments.
  2. Organise an inspection/audit/assessment from engagement to finalisation.
  3. Manage inspections of buildings subject of complaints and disputes.
  4. Explain the benefits of preventative maintenance of structures.
  5. Identify basic structural and building environment defects.
  6. Develop professional and comprehensive defect and recommendation reports.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Introductory Level
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Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
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