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702-137 Building Technology 1A

Credit points: 12.5

Coordinator: Martin Fowler.

Contact: Up to 6 hours of lectures, tutorials, studio and laboratory work, and site visits per week.

Timetable: First semester

Objectives:

On completion of this subject students should be able to demonstrate that they have an understanding of:

• the purpose of structure in buildings and the principal modes of structural actions;
• masonry and timber construction practices commonly used in Australian domestic-scaled building and landscape design;
• site-analysis and site-works for domestic-scaled buildings and landscapes;
• the documentation conventions shared by architects, builders, planners and landscape architects.

Content:

Site Construction: Site and landscape construction including the use of masonry, concrete and timber; introduction to contours and site works including codes and regulations. Structures: Modes of structural action and the behaviour of materials for a range of simple structural systems. Techniques for approximating the size of structural members. Communication: Recording, analysing and reporting techniques with an introduction to basic drawing techniques for landscape and construction.

Assessment:

Assignments (eg: exercises, site reports, class presentations), equivalent to not more than 5,000 words, and one examination of up to 2 hours (which could take the form of a class test). (Details, including the weighting of assessment, will be made available in the first 2 weeks of semester). Exercises may relate to work being undertaken in other subjects.

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Date created:    Oct  9 1995
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