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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.
Textbooks
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
References
Relevant Australian Standards
~ ~ 4 9 Statutory 6 ~ Planning
No. of hours per week: two hours
Prerequisite: CE294 Statutory Control
Instruction: lectures, tutorials, fleld work
Assessment: project work 100%
Subject aims and description
This subject deals with the regulatory and statutory aspects of
urban planning.
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.
References
Appropriate Planning Acts and Regulations
~ ~ 4 9Professional 6 ~ Project
No. of hours per week: six hours
Prerequisites: CE294 Statutory Control, CE496A
Statutory ControlIPlan Checking 3, CE496B
Statutory Planning
Instruction: project work
Assessment: oral presentation 30%, final report
70%
Subject aims and description
This subject is intended to develop students' initiative and selfeducation
skills through work in an investigations project in an
area relevant to the course.
References
As per other Statutory Control subjects
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Investigation Project
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: poster paper and oral presentation
10%. final report 90%
Subject aims
To develo~ students' initiative and self-education skills through
work on an investigation project in an area
relevant to the course.
Subject description
Students will work individually or in small groups on selected
projects under staff supervision and will be required to meet
regularly with their supervisor. In general, projects will be staff
initiated and may arise from staff research or from proposals
put forward by industry or by cooperative employers. Students
may also suggest projects which will require departmental
approval before proceeding.
Each project will require a literature survey and a theoretical
and/or experimental investigation. Results and conclusions will
be presented as a progress report in the form of a poster paper
and an oral presentation, and a final written report at the
conclusion of the project.
~ ~ 5 0 7 Municipal and Transport
Engineering (Major Elective)
No. of hours per week: five hours
Assessment: examination, assignrnentzllaboratory
work
Subject aims
To extend students' knowledge and skills in the areas of
transport engineering, water engineering and municipal
engineering, including environmental considerations.
Subject description
Transport Engineering (twenty-eight hours)
Freight transport: shipping, harbours, dredging, cargo
containers, inland waterways, belt conveyors, air freight, solids
pipelines, ore handling, freight terminals, capacity, selection of
mode, physical distribution.
Passenger transport: fixed guideway, APT proposals, metro,
airports, airport capacity, air traffic control, ferries, selection of
mode.
Road engineering: application of queueing theory, freeway
geometry, traffic law, road hierarchy, road construction,
signing, bikeways, traffic generation, parking, pedestrianised
streets, computer packages for transport analysis.
Environmental considerations: traffic noise, vehicle emissions.
Transport economics, transport administration, transportation
planning.
Municipal Engineering (forty-two hours)
Powers and duties of local government engineers:
responsibilities for new developments, roads and traffic,
transport management, local area traffic management, street
design, road maintenance, parking requirements and control,
property and equipment, solid waste management, recreation,
including consideration of financial planning and constraints.
Planning: aspects of planning and building control relevant to
local government. Environmental effects statements.
Surveying: introduction to photogrammetry and remote
sensing.
~ ~ 5 1 6 Structural Engineering (Major
Elective)
No. of hours per week: five hours
Assessment: assignmentzllaboratory
Subject aims
To broaden the students' understanding of the theory of
structural behaviour and to consider some advanced topics in
structural engineering.