ABB121 Introduction to Construction Management and Quantity Surveying
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| Unit code: | ABB121 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,104 |
| International unit fee | $4,368 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | ABB121 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| 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)
- 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: Risk and Safety Management Report
Acting in the role of a cadet in a construction firm, you will attend a 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: Quiz
Mid-semester quiz covering contents in Weeks 1-9.
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.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
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.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
As this unit requires you to attend an organised site visit, you are strongly recommended to complete the General Construction Induction Card/Construction White Card at your own cost by the end of Week 3. You are also required to acquire 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 Card/Construction White Card, Personal Protective Equipment
Resources
Information on reference text will be provided on unit learning site.
Risk Assessment Statement
All commencing Faculty of Engineering students are required to complete the Mandatory Safety Induction
There are no extraordinary risks associated with the classroom/lecture activities in this unit.
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, Risk and Safety Management Report, Quiz, Innovation and Sustainability Presentation - Design and critically evaluate sustainable and creative solutions to social, economic, technological and environmental challenges.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Risk and Safety Management Report, Quiz, Innovation and Sustainability Presentation - Communicate knowledge, ideas and creative solutions in diverse modes, for a range of contexts and diverse audiences.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, ULO5, Risk and Safety Management Report, Quiz, Innovation and Sustainability Presentation - Strategically collaborate with diverse stakeholders and communities, including First Nations peoples.
Relates to: ULO4, ULO5, Risk and Safety Management Report, Quiz, Innovation and Sustainability Presentation - Reflect on feedback and experience, and display professional and ethical judgment and initiative.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Risk and Safety Management Report, Quiz, Innovation and Sustainability Presentation