1997 QUT Handbook

■ CNB422 ELECTIVE 2
The student will chose elective units to extend and expand an
area of knowledge or experience to develop in depth a particular
professional expertise. These subjects may be drawn
from any relevant Faculty within the QUT. The electives are
to be approved by the Course Coordinator prior to enrolment.
Courses: CN43 Prerequisites: Final year subjects
Credit Points: 9 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ CNB431 ELECTIVE 1
The student will chose elective units to extend and expand an
area of knowledge or experience to develop in depth a particular
professional expertise. These subjects may be drawn
from any relevant Faculty within the QUT. The electives are
to be approved by the Course Coordinator prior to enrolment.
Courses: CN41 Prerequisites: Final year subjects
Credit Points: 9 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ CNB432 ELECTIVE 2
The student will chose elective units to extend and expand an
area of knowledge or experience to develop in depth a particular
professional expertise. These subjects may be drawn
from any relevant Faculty within the QUT. The electives are
to be approved by the Course Coordinator prior to enrolment.
Courses: CN41 Prerequisites: Final year subjects
Credit Points: 9 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ CNB440 LAW 3 BUILDING CONTRACTS
Building and engineering agreements, practices relating to the
building industry; contract law, elements, formation and discharge
of a contract; contents of a valid contract, misrepresentation,
collateral contract implied terms; contract documents
and their interpretation; breach of contract; major provisions
in Australian standard forms of building contract.
Courses: CN31, CN33 Corequisites: CNB404
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 1 per week
■ CNB442 VALUATION & DILAPIDATIONS
Nature of value; effect of supply and demand of land and buildings;
investment value and occupational value; types of landed
property, incidents of their tenure, outgoings and comparison
with other forms of investment; rates of interest required from
different types of property; calculating rental value and net income
and capitalisation of net income; use of valuation tables;
liability for dilapidations; legal and equitable waste; implied,
express contract covenants and statutory obligations to repair
between landlord and tenant; landlords’ remedies for breach of
covenant to repair; liability for injuries to third parties.
Courses: CN31, CN33 Prerequisites: CNB013, CNB014
Credit Points: 6
Contact Hours: 2 per week in Semester 1, 1 per week in
Semester 2
■ CNB443 BUILDING SERVICES 3
Transportation of people and goods; passenger, goods and
service lifts; planning disposition, control systems and construction;
regulatory requirements, approximate traffic calculations;
escalators and moving walks, use, widths and ratings,
regulatory requirements and construction; planning of lift contracts
and ancillary building work; cost of lifts; fire protection,
sprinklers, detectors, alarms, extinguishers; telephone and
sound systems; intrusion alarm systems; clock and time systems;
acoustics.
Courses: CN31, CN33 Prerequisites: CNB013, CNB014
Corequisites: CNB253
Credit Points: 5 Contact Hours: 2.5 per week
■ CNB444 MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL
ESTIMATING
Mechanical and electrical systems, parameters influencing
their design and application; types estimates and tenders; preliminaries,
trade awards and wage rates; take off procedures,
costing and estimating make-up calculations; system costs in
relation to total building, floor area, operating and maintenance
cost, builders allowance for each system.
Courses: CN31, CN33 Prerequisites: CNB013, CNB014
Credit Points: 4 Contact Hours: 2 per week
650
■ CNB446 ESTIMATING 1
Building trades award and wages rates; hourly rate build up
for equipment and trade services; calculation of preliminaries
for a small suburban project.
Courses: CN31, CN33 Prerequisites: CNB006, CNB253
Corequisites: CNB254
Credit Points: 5 Contact Hours: 2.5 per week
■ CNB451 COMPUTER SOFTWARE
APPLICATIONS 1
Preparation of bills of quantities using computer software
packages; hands-on experience in set-up of base accounts,
trades, headings; measurement input; editing, correction and
data manipulation; report generation in various bill of quantities
formats; pricing using estimated and/or tendered rates;
elemental analyses; computer measurement of contractual
systems; specification and preamble development.
Courses: CN33 Prerequisites: CNB010, CNB246, ISB180
Credit Points: 4 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ CNB452 COMPUTER SOFTWARE
APPLICATIONS 2
Cost plan/estimates using computer software packages, including
set-up of base accounts, parameter specifications; elemental
and detailed estimate measurement; editing, correction
and data manipulation; report generation and formatting;
development of labour constants, standard rates and items;
pricing, tendering, spreadsheet application; contract administration,
variation control, rise and fall of final accounts;
progress payments; cash flow forecasts.
Courses: CN33 Prerequisites: CNB647
Corequisites: CNB648
Credit Points: 4 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ CNB461 MEASUREMENT OF CONSTRUCTION 5
Methods of taking off and billing quantities in complex basement
and foundation work in the trades underpinning, excavator,
concreter, piling systems, structural systems in suspended
slabs and walls.
Courses: CN33
Prerequisites: CNB010, CNB246, CNB254, CNB341
Credit Points: 3 Contact Hours: 1.5 per week
■ CNB462 MEASUREMENT OF CONSTRUCTION 6
Methods of taking off and billing quantities in the trades
plumber and drainer.
Courses: CN33 Prerequisites: CNB347
Credit Points: 3 Contact Hours: 1.5 per week
■ CNB501 BUILDING MANAGEMENT 3
Construction accounting methods and management of on and
off-site financial transactions; construction industry accounting
procedures, profit and balance sheets.
Courses: CN31, CN33
Credit Points: 4 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ CNB502 BUILDING MANAGEMENT 4
Search and selection of construction projects; the discount
rate cost of capital, return on investment; cash flows and contract
mark-up; risk uncertainty and inflation in capital investment
decisions; analysis and interpretation of financial statements;
sources of funds and classifications; bidding theory
and strategy; prescribed payments taxation system.
Courses: CN31, CN33 Prerequisites: CNB404, CNB501
Credit Points: 4 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ CNB524 MEASUREMENT OF CONSTRUCTION 7
Methods of taking off and billing quantities in the trades of
mechanical and electrical engineer, external works and preliminaries.
Courses: CN33 Prerequisites: CNB013, CNB014
Credit Points: 4 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ CNB526 POST-CONTRACT SERVICES 1
Method of adjustment of provisional items, rise and fall entitlements;
preparing valuation certificates for progress payments;
cost control techniques used during the construction
period; review of applicable contractual clauses; quantity sur-