1997 QUT Handbook

dencies towards specialisation, the concept of synergy, problems
of co-ordinating activities, the organisation of information
and the significance of rule governed behaviour; economic,
psychological, administrative, political and sociological
perspective on organisation; systems and cybernetic approaches
to organisation; the individual as a system, social
systems, and adaptive systems; applications in personal psychology
and development, the business firm, professional and
industry organisations, government and social controls, legal
institutions and public policy, and land information systems
Courses: PS47, PS48
Prerequisites: PSB315, PSB323, PSB348
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB320 LAND DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE 1
The history of land development, especially urban land development,
in Australia and in Queensland. The effects of technology
and social attitudes on urban land development; sustainable
land development; the physical, economic and social
determinants of land use; land development as an economic
activity; economic and social benefits of land development
controls; site analysis and assessment; opportunities and constraints,
sieve mapping, GIS application; the site in its broader
context; spatial models; models for levels of activity and location
of activities, optimising models.
Courses: PS47, PS48 Prerequisites: PSB316
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB321 LAND DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE 2
Elements of traffic planning, road capacities, road hierarchies;
geometric layout of rural and urban roads; storm water and
sewerage drainage for urban subdivisions; subdivision design;
lot geometry, and orientation, road hierarchies and access; open
space systems, radburn; provision and location of services;
detailed treatment of development controls affecting subdivisions
– negotiations, applications, appeals; preparations for
Court, precedents.
Courses: PS47, PS48 Prerequisites: PSB320
Corequisites: CEB564
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB322 LAND DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE 3
Further work on conventional and innovative subdivision design,
integration of road and lot design with engineering works,
especially drainage; subdivision designs and procedures for
canal estates, industrial estates, group title, building units and
other strata titles; costing and cash flow analysis for subdivision
projects; feasibility studies, designing to a budget; preparation
of a complete application for a local authority approval.
Courses: PS47, PS48 Prerequisites: PSB321
Credit Points: 16 Contact Hours: 6 per week
■ PSB323 LAND STUDIES 1
Introduction to the nature and scope of economics as a discipline;
analysis of factors affecting supply and demand for
goods and services; market structure, market failure and rationale
for government intervention into the operation of markets;
land and natural resources, conservation and the environment,
and the role of property rights and obligations; problems
of industry location and spatial aspects of economics;
consideration of economic efficiency, productivity, technological
change and economic growth
Courses: PS47, PS48
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB324 LAND STUDIES 2
Concepts of value, purposes of valuation: general and statutory
definitions; general principles of valuation: Methods of
valuation, summation, capitalisation, hypothetical development.
Preparation and presentation of valuation reports; valuation
of improvements to land. Requirements of taxation legislation;
Urban valuation. Rural valuation. Valuation of interests
in land. Valuation of other rights in land. Compensation
for compulsory acquisitions. Effect of statutory town planning
schemes on land valuation; land valuation and land administration:
legislation affecting land valuation practice; reports
of recent Royal Commissions and Committees of In-
quiry dealing with land valuation; duties and liabilities of a
valuer.
Courses: IF54, PS47, PS48
Prerequisites: PSB316, PSB323, PSB328
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB325 LAND SURVEYING 1
General introduction to the profession and to position fixing
methods. Elementary treatment of errors; accuracy and precision.
Working from “whole to part”; horizontal and vertical
control. Types and purposes of surveys: cadastral, construction,
hydrographic, geodetic, etc.; basic instrumentation: various
small instruments and optical theodolite. Tapes and chains,
formulae for slope, temperature, sag and tension correction.
Chaining techniques. Simple trigonometric and differential
heighting. Introductory principles and use of EDM. Surveying
calculations. Introduction to mapping. Principal projections.
Map numbering system used in Queensland. Interpretation
of cadastral and topo maps. Elementary aerial photography.
Interpretation and orientation in maps and field positions;
Outline of GPS and GIS technologies – opportunities
and pitfalls.
Courses: IF54, PS47, PS48
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB326 LAND SURVEYING 2
Calcs. Missing element closes. Horizontal curves (simple,
compound, reverse). Earth work estimation. Further work on
random errors, measures of precision, errors and residuals.
Test and adjustments of tilting and automatic levels. Theory
and practice of electronic theodolites and total stations. Traversing
and further non-Least Square adjustments; Investigation
and detail surveys. Longitude and cross-sections; contouring;
single operator laser levelling systems.
Courses: IF54, PS47, PS48 Prerequisites: PSB325
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB327 LAND SURVEYING 3
Position fixing and resection; Contour and detail surveys,
specifications, performance and assessment of DTMs; Horizontal
and Vertical alignment for route surveys; Areas, volumes
and earthworks. Field astronomy theory.
Courses: IF54, PS47, PS48 Prerequisites: PSB326
Credit Points: 10 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB328 LAND SURVEYING 4
Land Title Systems, Reinstatement; an explanation of the options
of land title systems, with particular reference to Customary
Land Tenure, Private Deeds registration, Public Deeds
Registration, and Registration of Title; an analysis of the literature
and case law relevant to the reinstatement of property
boundaries as applicable to Queensland; an analysis of Legislation,
Subordinate legislation and case law that impinges on
the reinstatement process; a comparative rendering of spatial
relationships. Undertaking of a field survey to reinstate the
boundaries of a section in the Brisbane Metropolitan area.
Courses: IF54, PS47, PS48 Prerequisites: PSB326
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB329 LAND SURVEYING 5
Reconnaissance for geodetic surveys; geodetic observations
techniques and reduction of observations; The three classical
methods of geodetic surveying, that of triangulation,
trilateration and traversing; Precise levelling including the
Princeton Test; Satellite surveying using GPS technology; the
undertaking of a geodetic survey in accordance with Surveyors
Board requirements for Registration as a Surveyor.
Courses: IF54, PS47, PS48 Prerequisites: PSB327
Corequisites: PSB304
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB330 LAND SURVEYING 6
Field surveys for DTMs, as-constructed surveys, associated
specifications and standards; More complex setting out, control
and monitoring for structures; mining surveying for surface
and below surface mining activities; hydrographic surveying
for exploration and port management.
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