Civil Construction and Design Short Courses

Short Courses and Professional
Development in Civil Construction
and Design
OVERVIEW
These short courses are aimed at personnel working in the
civil construction industry as para-professionals who support
professional engineers. On completion, participants will be able
to demonstrate the application of a broad range of technical,
managerial, coordination and planning skills..
These short courses are designed to
provide professional development and
underpinning knowledge that could
contribute to the attainment of the
Diploma of Civil Construction Design.
A Diploma of Project Management can
also be achieved by doing the project
management units of competency.
Suitable for:
Construction supervisors, drafters
and para-professional designers
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Course Descriptors
1) Introduction to soils fundamentals
This course will provide participants with
fundamental underpinning knowledge relating to
soils. It will enable the making of informed choices
regarding equipment selection and construction
techniques relating to earth works on civil works.
Topics include:
• soil classification
• particle size distribution
• Atterburg limits
• compaction
• optimum moisture content / max dry density
• field density
• earth moving/compaction equipment
• haulage calculations
Duration 2 days, Cost $760+GST
2) Introduction to drafting
This course is designed to give participants an
understanding of Australian Standard 1100 in
relation to requirements for the production and/
or reading of civil engineering related drawings.
Topics include:
• Use of CAD equipment to construct basic
elements
• Printing text and line work appropriate to civil
engineering drawings
• Orthographic projection
• Sectional views
• Dimensioning
• Drawing layout
Duration 2 days, Cost $760+GST
3) Project management (Dip)
This course is made of 6 units from the Diploma
of Project Management and provides participants
with skills and knowledge to manage some of the
most critical elements of a construction project
such as time, quality, risk, procurement, scope
and communication.
The project management skillset is part of the
nationally recognised BSB51407 Diploma of
Project Management. Participants will be asked to
complete a work based project.
Duration 4 days, Cost $1800 - GST free
4) Understanding mechanical properties
of materials
This course provides participants with
fundamental underpinning knowledge relating
to the use of steel on civil construction projects.
It will enable the making of informed choices
regarding selection of appropriate steel grades
and corrosion protection. Topics include:
• Stress and strain
• Mild steel tension test
• Corrosion treatments
• Impact tests
• Hardness tests
• Shear testing
Duration 2 days, Cost $760+GST
5) Best practice concrete placement
This course provides participants with
fundamental underpinning knowledge relating to
the ordering, transportation, placing and curing of
concrete. Topics include:
• Constituents of concrete and their properties
• Types of cement
• Properties in the plastic state
• Properties in the solid state
• Placing techniques/precautions
• Curing
• Slump and strength testing
• Reinforcement positioning
Duration 1 day, Cost $380+GST
6) Working with teams, quality and
continuous improvement
This unit aims to provide participants with the
skills to ensure team effectiveness, manage
personal work priorities and professional
development, manage quality customer
service, manage an information or knowledge
management system and manage innovation and
continuous improvement.
Duration 3days, Cost $2400 - GST free
7) Steel and concrete drawing
This unit will provide participants with the
underpinning knowledge required to produce
drawings which document basic steel and
concrete structures commonly used on civil
construction projects. This will include:
• structural notes
• general layout concrete drawings
• concrete slabs
• concrete beams
• concrete columns
• concrete footings
• concrete walls
• concrete stairs
• general layout steel drawings
• holding down bolt plans
• steel line drawings
• steel detailing
Duration 2 days, Cost $760+GST
8) Fundamentals of Structural Design
This course provides participants with an
awareness of the structural design process thus
enabling them to constructively contribute to
solving structural problems that arise on a civil
engineering project. Topics include:-
• Forces, movements, free body diagrams,
equilibrium
• Load determination
• Structural systems
• Truss analysis
• Design of a tension member
• Design of a bolted lap joint
Duration 2 days, Cost $760+GST
9) Geotechnical Fundamentals (4 days)
This course will provide participants with an
awareness of the structural design of a variety of
foundations including shallow foundations, pad
footings, rafts and piles for settlements and load
carrying capacity. Topics include:
• Determination of soil strength parameters
• California Bearing Capacity test.
• Pressures on retaining walls
• Bearing capacity of foundations
• Pad, strip raft and pile footings
• Slope stability
Duration 4 days, Cost $1520+GST
All course materials, lunch, refreshments and
a certificate of participation are included in the
cost of each course.
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To obtain a Diploma of Civil
Construction Design
To receive this qualification, participants must
successfully complete 20 units of competency
(UOC). Rules governing the selection of UOC
are included in the documentation available on
training.gov.au.
UOCs numbered 1 to 21 in the table below satisfy
the selection rules. Note UOCs MEM 30001A
and MEM 30002A have prerequisite UOCs which
are not counted as part the 20 required. These
prerequisites are MEM16006A Organise and
Communicate Information and MEM16008A
Interact with Computer Technology.
Below is a list of nine short courses which
address the knowledge component of specific
units of competency. The applicable UOCs are
listed alongside the appropriate course. Further
on the job assessment will be required to obtain
credit for an individual UOC.
Successful completion of courses 1, 2, 4, 5, 7,
8 and 9 can be used as part evidence toward
the attainment of the associated units of
competency. For further information please
contact your training consultant.
To obtain a Diploma of Project
Management
The project management skillset (courses 3
and 6) is part of the nationally recognised
BSB51407 Diploma of Project Management.
Participants will be asked to complete a work
based project. Successful completion will result
in the attainment of 9 units of competency and
the Diploma of Project Management.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites however ideally candidates for these courses should have a
minimum of 12 months on-the-job experience related to construction either on-site or in
an engineering design office.
Course
Associated Units of Competency
1) Introduction to soils fundamentals - 2 days (Perth Campus) 1) RIIMPO402A – Apply the principles of earthworks construction
2) Introduction to Drafting - 2 days (Perth Campus)
2) MEM30001A - Use computer aided drafting systems to produce basic engineering drawings
3) MEM30002A - Produce basic engineering graphics
4) BSBPMG503A - Manage project time
5) BSBPMG505A - Manage project quality
3) Project Management (CBS) - 4 days (East Perth Campus)
6) BSBPMG508A - Manage project risk
7) BSBPMG509A - Manage project procurement
8) BSBPMG502A - Manage project scope
9) BSBPMG507A - Manage project communication
4) Understanding mechanical properties of materials - 2 days (Perth
Campus)
10) MSL975016A - Perform complex tests to measure engineering properties of materials
11) RIICSG402A - Apply the principles of civil steel structures construction
5) Best practice concrete placement - 1 day (Perth Campus) 12) RIICSG401A - Apply the principles of civil concrete structures construction
13) BSBCU501A - Manage quality customer service
6) Working with teams, quality and continuous improvement -3 days
(East Perth Campus)
14) BSBINM501A - Manage an information or knowledge management system
15) BSBMGT608B - Manage innovation and continuous improvement
16) BSBWOR501B - Manage personal work priorities and professional development
17) BSBWOR502A - Ensure team effectiveness
7) Steel and Concrete Drawing - 2days (Perth Campus)
18) RIICWD533A - Prepare detailed design of civil concrete structures (Part 1 of 2)
19) RIICWD534A - Prepare detailed design of civil steel structures (Part 1 of 2)
8) Fundamentals of Structural Design (pre-req 4)- 2 days (Perth
Campus)
Course 4 MUST be completed prior to attending this course
18) RIICWD533A – Prepare detailed design of civil concrete structures (Part 2 of 2)
19) RIICWD534A – Prepare detailed design of civil steel structures (Part 2 of 2)
9) Geotechnical fundamentals - 4 Days (Perth Campus)
Course 1 MUST be completed prior to attending this course.
20) RIICWD501A – Prepare detailed design of foundations
21) RIICWD507A – Prepare detailed geotechnical design
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Training Schedule June 2013 - June 2014
Course Cost ($) Duration Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Feb Mar Apr May Jun
1) Introduction to soils
fundamentals
760+gst 2 days 10, 11 7, 8
2) Introduction to Drafting 760 +gst 2 days 24, 25 19, 20
3) *Project Management
(CBS)
1800 gst free 4 days 22-25
2, 3
12 ,13
24 -27 16, 19
4) Understanding mechanical
properties of materials
760+gst 2 days 8, 9
5) Best practice concrete
placement
6) Working with teams,
quality and continuous
improvement (CBS)
7) Steel and Concrete
Drawing
8) *Fundamentals of
Structural Design (pre-req 4)
380+gst 1 day 24
2400 gst free 3 days 11 -13 28-30
760+gst 2 days 2, 3
760+gst 2 days 17, 18
9) *Geotechnical
Fundamentals (pre-req 1)
1520+gst
4 days
10, 11
17, 18
Contact Details
Training Consultant: Rod King
Tel: (08) 9428 0400
Email: rod.king@central.wa.edu.au
Administration:
Tel: (08)9428 0402
Email: industrytraining@central.wa.edu.au
1300 300 822 | central.wa.edu.au
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