1997 QUT Handbook

veying practice, adjustment to the contract sum for variations;
feasibility studies; different types of contractual arrangement
and selection of contractors.
Courses: CN33 Prerequisites: CNB440, CNB540
Credit Points: 5 Contact Hours: 2.5 per week
■ CNB527 PM2 QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES
Operations research techniques applied to the construction
industry; linear programming; transportation and assignment
methods; dynamic programming, decision trees; descriptive
and inductive statistical methods applied to the construction/
development industry and research; frequency distributions,
measures of central tendency, dispersion; probability of variance,
correlation and regression, sampling.
Courses: CN31, CN33 Prerequisites: CNB403, CNB404
Credit Points: 3 Contact Hours: 1.5 per week
■ CNB540 ESTIMATING 2
Build up of typical rates for demolition, dewatering, piling,
underpinning, shoring/formwork to columns, beams, walls and
slab systems; reinforcement tying and fixing; concrete placing
rates; precast erection; scaffolding, gantries, hoists and
cranes, etc.; calculations of preliminaries for country and city
projects.
Courses: CN31, CN33
Prerequisites: CNB009, CNB010, CNB246, CNB446
Credit Points: 5 Contact Hours: 2.5 per week
■ CNB543 LAW 4 TORTS & ARBITRATIONS
Law of tort, negligence, professional negligence, duty of care,
liability, occupiers’ liability, nuisance, fraud and conversion;
arbitration, nature of and comparison with actions of law; reference
by consent; the arbitration agreement, parties subject
matter, appointment of arbitrators; conduct of an arbitration;
powers and duties of an arbitrator; rules of evidence; validity
of publication and enforcement of an award; costs.
Courses: CN31, CN33 Prerequisites: CNB440
Credit Points: 3 Contact Hours: 1.5 per week
■ CNB545 PM3 CONSTRUCTION PLANNING
TECHNIQUES 1
Application of construction planning and control techniques;
bar charts; critical path networks, arrow and precedence diagrams;
updating control and reporting techniques; line of balance.
Courses: CN31, CN33
Prerequisites: CNB246, CNB254, CNB404, CNB446
Corequisites: CNB540
Credit Points: 7 Contact Hours: 3.5 per week
■ CNB548 PM4 CONSTRUCTION PLANNING
TECHNIQUES 2
Resource management; basic and production planning techniques;
planning and control for various types of projects;
misuse and abuse of planning and legal problems associated
with CPM.
Courses: CN31
Prerequisites: CNB013 , CNB014 , CNB545
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ CNB550 PM5 PROJECT COST CONTROL
Financial planning and cost control of the construction project;
the development time relationships, cost consequences of design
decision; preconstruction budget, budget management,
materials control; performance analysis; trend evaluation; forecasting
techniques, progress reports, cost reports; financial
status reports; computer applications in expenditure; equipment
policy, equipment economics, maintenance management;
contract administration, processing payments, negotiating
extensions and prolongation claims, rise and fall, prescribed
payments.
Courses: CN31
Prerequisites: CNB403, CNB404, CNB501
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ CNB552 OFFICE MANAGEMENT
Scale of fees and professional charges; code of ethics; letters
of engagement; law involving the quantity surveyor and client,
professional indemnity; image and status; office management
and procedures.
Courses: CN33
Credit Points: 2 Contact Hours: 1 per week
■ CNB563 STATUTORY VALUATION
Capital taxation as it affects property transactions. Valuations
for: tax and taxation of capital gains; for statutory rating purposes
under relevant legislation, appeals procedure; compulsory
acquisition; assessment of compensation resulting from
acquisition, resumption and damage. Evidence; the expert
witness and professional liability; mock court.
Courses: CN32
Prerequisites: CNB700, CNB702, CNB704
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ CNB564 SPECIALIST VALUATION
Valuation of specialist-type properties including licensed
premises, hotels, service stations, entertainment and public
properties. The valuation of corporate assets for organisational
and balance sheet purposes. The future role of the valuer.
Courses: CN32, CN81 Prerequisites: CNB700, CNB702
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ CNB567 REAL ESTATE MARKET ANALYSIS
Review of theory of price, and applied economics of markets;
determinants and conditions of supply and demand, market
equilibrium, competition, economic cycles. Real property
markets, identification of submarkets: residential and non-residential
markets. Significance of tenure. Impact of government
policies, sources of data; analysis of ABS data. Applied studies
of nominated submarkets. Market analysis techniques,
trends and studies: local, national and overseas. Future trends.
Note: Real estate agency licensing requirements – this unit
focuses on 20.1, 20.2, 21.1 and 21.2 of the Australian Competency
Standards for real estate agencies. ASF level 6 elements
7, 9, 20 and 21 are addressed. For further details refer
to Course Coordinator and Accreditation Document for CN32
(1995).
Courses: CN32, PS47, PS48
Prerequisites: CNB600, CNB568, CNB703
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ CNB568 REAL ESTATE PRACTICE
Building on the prerequisite law unit this subject introduces
management techniques required to operate a real estate practice
and the establishment of, or the purchasing of, an agency
or rent roll. Consumer and business ethics are covered together
with the implications of trade practice. real estate practice,
viability, profitability and fair trading legislation. Issues affecting
real estate practice and the associated responsibilities
are linked to risk management and professional indemnity.
This unit covers the requirements of the Australian National
Training Body competency standards to ASF 5, 6 and 7, incorporating
units 1, 2, 3, 7.18, 11, 12, 19, 20 and 21.
Courses: CN32, CN81, PS47, PS48
Prerequisites: CNB703
Corequisites: CNB600
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ CNB600 REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Real estate industry structure, office administration, residential
sales and leasing requirements (legal) and procedures associated
with real estate tendering and property auctions. Code
of ethics. CNB600 covers the requirements and standards set
down in the Australian National Training Body Guidelines
(2nd ed 1993) and amendments to competency levels ASF 3
and 4 for the real estate industry, incorporating field units 6
and 17 in ASF 3 and field units 5, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20
and 21 in ASF 4 covered during the course lectures. Delivery
of some elements is linked with Law 1, Real Estate Accounting
and Property and Asset Management.
Courses: CN32 Prerequisites: CNB701, CNB703
Corequisites: CNB568
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 2 per week
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