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Liaison with other council departments, public authorities
and private enterprise.
Basic principles of the regulations. General knowledge of
related Acts, regulations, codes and standards.
Plan checking of domestic type applications for building
permit.
Textbooks
Building Code of Australia
Building Control Ad
Victoria Building Regulations
CE192B Introduction to Construction Law
No. of hours per week: two hours
Prerequisites: nil
Instruction: lectures, tutorials
Assessment: examination 80%, assessed work
20%
Subject aims and description
A first year subject in the Degree of Building Surveying,
intended to enable students to understand the origins of law
and to provide building surveyors with a suitable legal
background for the proper discharge of their duties.
This subject covers the concept of law. sources of law, origin
and development of common law and Australian law,
hierarchy of courts and the branches of law. The doctrine of
precedent. Statutory interpretation. Studies of relevant case
law torts, nuisance and occupier's liability. Liability of public
authorities in building control. Property law and related Acts.
Professional liability for negligence.
Textbooks
Easton, etal. Introducing the Law 3rd ed, North Ryde: CCH
Publications, 1990
Gifford, K. How to Understand an Acf of Parliament. 7th ed. Sydney:
law Book Co., 1991
References
Legal Resources Book. Fitzroy Legal Services
Maher, F. and Waller, L. An Introduction to Law 6th ed, Sydney: Law
Book Co., 1991
Maher, F., Derham, D. and Waller, P. Judicial Precedent and Statutory
Interpretation. Sydney: Lwv Book Co., 1969
CE 196 Communications
No. of hours per week: two hours for two
semesters
Prerequisites: nil
Instruction: lectures, tutorials
Assessment: assessed work 100%
Subject aims and description
A first year subject of the Degree in Building Surveying
intended to introduce the students to techniques for
developing basic skills in written and oral communication as
well as an understanding of social and urban issues relevant
to building surveyors.
References
Building Surveyor. Editor D. Wadsworth
Other references to be advised during lectures
CE204 Computer Application
No. of hours per week: two hours
Prerequisites: nil
Instruction: lectures, tutorials, laboratory work
Assessment: assessed work 100%
Subject aim$ and description
A second year subject of the Degree in Building Surveying
designed to enable students to understand the operation
and use of computers in industry. The subject covers:
introduction to microcomputers, operating systems. Overview
of windows applications related to word processing,
spreadsheets and CAD.
References
Person, R. Using Excel 4 for Windows. QUE, 1992
Microsoft. Microsoft Wrd for Window Step by Step. Microsoft
Press, 1993
CE211 Structural Mechanics
No. of hours per week: two hours of lectures
and one hour of tutorial, both for h/vo semesters
Assessment: examinations (2) 75%. assessed
tutorials (6) 25%
Subject aims
To develop an understanding of structural behaviour in
statically determinate and indeterminate systems and to
introduce computer methods of structural analysis.
Particular use will be made of a number of standard
structural analysis programs.
Subject description
Structural behaviour: modelling of structures, elastic and
inelastic response to load. Statical and kinematic
determinacy, stability of structural form.
Statically determinate structures: modelling and equilibrium
of forces in beams, frames, arches and cables. Application to
gravity structures such as retaining walls.
lntroduction to virtual work: deflections due to axial force
and bending, flexibility method of analysis for continuous
beams and indeterminate trusses.
Statically indeterminate structures: development of the slope
deflection equations and the beam element actiondisplacement
relationship, introduction to the matrix stiffness
method of analysis for trusses and continuous beams,
introduction to plastic analysis of continuous beams.
Computer applications: modelling and analysis of a range of
structures using frame analysis software, with verification by
approximate methods.
Stress analysis: biaxial loading, torsion of circular and thinwalled
closed sections, shear centre, skew bending, analysis
of composite sections.
Textbook
Spencer, W.J. fundamental Structural Analysis. Basingstoke:
Macmillan, 1988
Reference
White, R.N., Gergely, F! and Sexsmith. R.G. Struaural Engineering.
Wiley. 1976
CE23 1 Hydraulics
No. of hours per week: three hours for two
semesters
Assessment: examination 70%.
tutorialslassignmentsllab work 30%
Subject aims
To enable students to apply the concepts of continuity,
conservation of energy and momentum, and energy losses
to the flow of fluid, and hence to analyse a wide range of
simple reservoir, pipe and channel systems.
Subject description
Statics: pressure, thrust, bouyancy, stability of floating vessels.
Fluid concepts: continuity, the one-dimensional energy
equation, orifices, weirs, sluices, differential head meters.
Momentum, forces on fittings, jet impact.
Model analysis: Reynolds and Froude models.
Pipe flow: Darcy-Weisbach and Colebrook-White formulas,
development of the Moody diagram, empirical formulas,
shock losses, analysis of pipe-reservoir systems.