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702-137 Construction Technology 1A | |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Mr M Fowler |
Semester | 1 |
Contact | Up to four hours of lectures seminars, and tutorials per week |
Subject Description | Practice: Students will undertake a report based project introducing construction practice at a domestic scale. (Students are required to independently visit a site regularly during Semester). 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. Purpose of structures in buildings; taxonomy of elements of structural systems; load paths in structures; analysis and conceptual structural design. |
Assessment | Assignments (report, exercises, essays, and class presentations, equivalent of 5000 words, and one examination of up to 2 hours (which could take the form of a class test). |
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