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Credit points: 12.5
Coordinator: Anthony Mills.
Prerequisite: Cost Management 2.
Contact: Two hours of lectures and up to three hours of tutorials and seminars a week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
The subject continues examination of financial management of building process, and the practice of the professional quantity surveyor. At the conclusion of the subject the student should:
- be able to prepare complete bills of quantities according to the Australian Standard Method of Measurement;
- be able to prepare detailed cost plans;
- be able to tender for building works;
- to be able to measure building services such as hydraulics, electrical and mechanical services.
Content:
Further development of cost management concepts including: cost budgeting and cost planning techniques, detailed analysis of measuring and estimating bills of quantities. Builders estimating and tendering, construction cost control techniques, methods of measurement of building services.
Assessment:
A 3-hour examination (40 per cent) and two staged written assignments (60 per cent) equivalent to not more than 7,500 words.
Prescribed texts:
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (Volume 4 page 43)
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