1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

Business theories and practice
Modern theories of management and current practices. For
example total quality management, value adding
management, just-in-time.
Supervision and leadership, practical industrial relations,
negotiating, arbitration and conciliation, occupational health
and safety, selection and training, project teams and task
forces.
Motivation, job enrichment, employee participation.
Time management, effective speaking, writing, reading,
creative thinking, lateral thinking, technical communication
skills.
Problem analysis, problem solving, decision making.
Construction techniques
Construction techniques industrial and commercial buildings,
medium and high rise buildings in steel, reinforced and
prestressed concrete, tilt-up construction formwork in timber
and steel, climbing formwork table and slip forms.
Concrete technology materials, plant, mix design, high
strength concrete, admixtures, delivery systems, formwork,
placing, curing, testing.
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CE496A Statutory Control si,
7 credit points (sem I) and 4 credit poinb (sem 2) 3 hours per
week (sem. I) and 2 hours per week (sem. 2) Hawthorn
Prerequisite: CE294 Statutory Control Instruction: lectures,
tutorials Assessment: examination 60%, reports 40%
This is a fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Technology
(Building Surveying)
Objectives
To further develop students' understanding of the principles
underlying the relevant regulations, acts, codes and
standards and their application to major projects.
Content
Administration and law in-depth study of building
surveyor's duties and his legislative responsibilities.
Functions the consultative role of the building surveyor in
council and private practice.
Acts and regulations analysis of regulations and detailed
study of total regulations and principles and a general ability
to relate to all relevant codes and standards. Anomalies in
the act and regulations and procedures to overcome these.
Redrafting of regulations.
Plan checking and assignments assignments will cover
aspects such as council reports and meetings, joint reports,
fast track process, major building approvals, dealing with
multi-storey buildings.
Recommended reading
Building Code of Australia, 1990, 2nd edn, Canberra, Australian
Uniform Building Regulations Co-ordinating Council, 1990
Building Control Act Melbourne, Victorian Government
Publishing Office
Victoria Building Regulations
Relevant Australian Standards
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CE496B Statutory Planning
4 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequzszte:
CE294 Statutory Control Instructton: lectures, tutorzals,
field work Assessment: project work 100%
O b jectives
This subject deals with the regulatory and statutory aspects
of urban planning.
Content
Topics covered are planning at the local and regional level.
Planning law acts and legislation. Government town
planning in Victoria. Planning appeals preparation for an
appeal and participation in the appeals system. Urban
landscape concepts relating to permit applications.
Recommended reading
Appropriate Planning Acts and Regulations
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CE496C Professional Projed
4 credit points (sem I) and 10 credit points (sem 2) 2 hours
per week (sem. I) and 4 hours (sem. 2) Hawthorn
Prerequisites: CE294 Statutory Control, CE496A Statutory
Control/Plan Checking 3, CE496B Statutoly Planning
Instruction: project work Assessment: verbal presentation
30%, final report 70%
Objectives
To develop students' initiative and self-education skills
through work in an investigations project in an area relevant
to the course.
Recommended reading
As per other Statutory Control subjects
CE498 Geostrudures and Rock Slopes
10 credit points 4.5 hoursper week Hawthorn
Instruction: lectures,tutorials, laboratory, field inspections
Assessment: examination 50%, assignment 30%, talk 20%
Prerequisites: CE488 Geomechanics and Structures
O b jedives
To enable the student to select and design appropriate
geostructures for retaining walls, and horizontal structures,
and to determine the stability of rock slopes.
Content
Stress-strain relationship of reinforced soil; factors affecting
the performance and behaviour of reinforced soil;
reinforcement type; reinforcement distribution; backfill
material; design of vertical walls; design of sloping surfaces;
effects of seismic loads and repeated loading; gabions; earth
anchors; soil nailing; construction methods; durability.
Rock classification systems for continuous and
discontinuous rock masses; plotting of discontinuities;
assessment of the behaviour of discontinuities; stability
estimation for plane and wedge failure; systems for
stabilisation of rock masses.
Recommended reading
Jones, C.J.F.P. Earth Reinforcement and Soil Structures.
Butterworths, 1985
Das, B.M. Principles of Geotechnical Enginea'ng. 3rd edn, PWS,
Boston, 1994
Goodman, R.E. Introdtraia to Rock Mhniu. 2nd edn, Wi,
1989
Tomlinson, M.J. Foundation Design and Construction. 5th edn,
Longman Scientific and Technical, 1986
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