ABB121 Introduction to Construction Management and Quantity Surveying
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| Unit code: | ABB121 |
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| Equivalent(s): | UXB111 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,164 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,356 |
| International unit fee | $4,896 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2025, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | ABB121 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | UXB111 |
| Coordinator: | Fiona Cheung | fiona.cheung@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit will introduce you to the essential professional skills and practices you will need throughout your studies and professional career in the built environment. The unit actively explores the social and environmental forces involved in the evolution of the many ways that the built environment expresses itself across time and in different locations, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives. You will explore key concepts such as fundamentals of construction management and quantity surveying, occupational health and safety, asset management, professional ethics and sustainability, and to develop professional self-understanding in the built environment.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Identify the value of good business ethics.
- Assess and evaluate occupational health and safety and manage risks in construction scenarios.
- Identify weakness in current practice of construction management and quantity surveying, and assess the opportunities for more sustainable and innovative practice in construction.
- Recognise the basic concepts and principles of business strategy and implementation as it applies to construction professions , along with its selective choice/deployment relating to project and facility management, asset financial management, and ecologically sustainable development.
- Demonstrate written and oral communication skills to industry and academic standards both in a team and project environment to fulfil the specialist project team roles.
Content
In this unit, we introduce you to issues that are important to your profession and many of the foundation skills that you will use at university and in your future career to communicate and share your ideas and information with others. You are introduced to important skills that will help you understand and approach the academic expectations that are an important aspect of university studies.
Key topics include:
- Occupational health and safety
- Teamwork principles and practice
- Integration within the construction team
- Professional ethics
- Asset financial management principles
- Information literacy and management
- Sustainability
- Communication of information, ideas and critical thinking
- Current and future developments in construction
Learning Approaches
This unit employs problem-based and collaborative learning to provide opportunities for you to think critically, reflect on your learning and professional development and discuss concepts and issues with your peers.
Your participation in the unit will include:
- Face-to-face lectures and/or tutorial
- Prescribed readings
- Self directed training (e.g. General Construction Induction Card/Construction White Card)
- Field trip (scheduled construction site visit)
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Oral feedback will be provided in tutorials on tutorial activities and assessment items. Written feedback will be provided on summative assessment items. Generic feedback will be provided in lectures and tutorials.
Self-Feedback:
• Informal self-reflection exercise as part of in-class activities
Peer feedback:
• Informal feedback by peers on in-class activities
• Informal in-class discussions as part of in-class activities
• Formal feedback by peers
Teacher feedback:
• Informal feedback by lecturer and tutor on in-class activities
• Formal (summative) feedback on assessments
Assessment
Overview
Assessment consists of a risk and safety management report, mid-semester quiz and an innovative and sustainability presentation. There are also formative tutorial questions each week, in preparation for the mid-semester quiz and presentation.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Innovation and Sustainability Presentation
Successful individuals and organisations do things better, smarter and more productively while reducing their everyday environmental impacts. Technological changes, and information technology in particular, are making construction more innovative and more sustainable. Working as a team, you will give a presentation which addresses a topical issue in the construction industry. You are required to demonstrate your understanding and present findings on your topic. You will be asked to reflect on feedback you have received to date on formative and summative assessment items you have completed in the unit.
Assessment: Risk and Safety Management Report
Acting in the role of a cadet in a construction firm, you will attend a field trip, scheduled construction site visit, and produce a preliminary report on project risk and safety management. You will be asked to evaluate the project safety culture and analyse a safety incident case and explain to your construction manager what the potential causes were, the potential consequences, the preventative and mitigation controls.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Exam
Final exam covering contents in Weeks 1-13.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
As this unit requires you to attend a field trip (an organised construction site visit), you are required to complete a general construction induction training course with a Registered Training Organisation at your own cost. Upon successful completion, you will be issued with a general construction induction training card which is a mandatory requirement for the construction site visit. You are strongly recommended to acquire your general construction induction training card by the end of Week 5. You are also required to arrange your own Personal Protective Equipment such as steel cap safety boots, hi-vist vest, white safety hardhat and safety glasses - more details will be provided in Week 1 class.
Costs
General Construction Induction Training Card, Personal Protective Equipment
Resources
Information on reference text will be provided on unit learning site.
Risk Assessment Statement
There is a field trip (construction site visit) in this unit, you are required to complete a general construction induction training course (CPCCWHS1001 Prepare to work safely in the construction industry) with a registered training organisation.
All students are required to complete the Mandatory Safety Induction to mitigate the associated risk.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.AB01 Bachelor of Built Environment (Honours)
- Apply theoretical, practical and cultural knowledge and skills across a range of disciplines and specialist knowledge and skills in one built environment area.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Innovation and Sustainability Presentation, Risk and Safety Management Report, Exam - Design and critically evaluate sustainable and creative solutions to social, economic, technological and environmental challenges.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Innovation and Sustainability Presentation, Risk and Safety Management Report, Exam - Communicate knowledge, ideas and creative solutions in diverse modes, for a range of contexts and diverse audiences.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, ULO5, Innovation and Sustainability Presentation, Risk and Safety Management Report, Exam - Strategically collaborate with diverse stakeholders and communities, including First Nations peoples.
Relates to: ULO4, ULO5, Innovation and Sustainability Presentation, Risk and Safety Management Report, Exam - Reflect on feedback and experience, and display professional and ethical judgment and initiative.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Innovation and Sustainability Presentation, Risk and Safety Management Report, Exam