Course Title: Design and size consumer gas installations
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2014
Course Code: BUIL6314C
Course Title: Design and size consumer gas installations
School: 130T Vocational Engineering
Campus: City Campus
Program: C4338 - Certificate IV in Plumbing and Services
Course Contact: Program Manager
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 99254468
Course Contact Email: vocengineering@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Geoff Steel
geoff.steel@rmit.edu.au
99254331
Nominal Hours: 60
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
Nil.
Course Description
This unit of competency specifies the outcomes required to design, size and document a consumers gas installation, including consumer piping operating up to a pressure of 200Kpa, fluing, ventilation and appliance installation associated with natural gas (NG), simulated natural gas (SNG),liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and tempered liquefied petroleum gas (TLPG) for a building of minimum four floors and multiple buildings supplied through one gas source (billing meter or storage tank).
It covers preparing for work, determining gas installation design requirements, detailed planning of the layout, and completing work finalisation processes, including records and documentation.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
CPCPGS4011B Design and size consumer gas installations |
Element: |
1 Prepare for planning. 2 Identify system requirements. 3 Plan system layout. 4 Restore work area. |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Nature and scope of planning task are identified and confirmed. 2.1 Information and specifications for required work are obtained and confirmed, if necessary by site inspection. 4.1 Work area is restored according to workplace procedures. |
Learning Outcomes
Refer to elements.
Details of Learning Activities
Learning activities include in class workbook activities and researching industry practices and standards. This may include online learning activities. Students are expected to undertake design, size and documentation to relevant industry standards to include sustainability and WHS principles.
Teaching Schedule
Week beginning/Session | Topic | Learning Activities/Resources | Elements/ Performance criteria | Assessments |
Session 1 | Training schedule/breakdown. Pre training review. Supply faults. |
Students do written assessment covering sizing, ventilation, WHS, gas types. Trainer delivers lesson on supply faults and meter capacity. |
1.1. 1.2, 1.5, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2. 2.4. 2.4. |
Assessment 1 - Quiz, AS5601-2013. |
Session 2 | OPSO regulators. Pipe sizing. |
Students do written assessments covering sizing, gas types. Students work through handouts, AS5601-2013, handouts, AS5601-2013, DVD, PPT. |
2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2.
2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2. |
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Session 3 | Test times calculations. | Students do written assessments on domestic & industrial pipelines. Students work through handouts, AS5601-2013. |
2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2. | |
Session 4 | Materials & joining. Identification & location of pipework. ESV assignment. |
Students work through Handouts, AS5601-2013. Handouts, AS5601-2013. ESV website, AS5601-2013. |
1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.3.
1.1, 2.2, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 4.3. |
Assessments 2 – Written assignment on appliance clearances. |
Session 5 | AS5601-2013 quiz. | Students work through handouts covering sizing, ventilation, multiple choice questions., AS5601-2013. | 1.1, 1.4, 1.5, 2.2, 2.4, 3.1, 4,3. | |
Session 6 | Ventilation.
Appliance locations. |
Students work through handouts covering ventilation, various appliance locations. AS5601-2013, DVD, PPT. Handout, AS5601-2013, PPT. |
1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3. | |
Session 7 | L.P Gas installations. Cylinder installation & locations. |
Written assessment covering cylinder locations and various LPG installations. | 1.2,2.1,2.2,2.3,2.4,3.1,3.2, 3.4. |
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Session 8 | AS5601-2013 quiz. | Written assessment covering sizing, ventilation, multiple choice questions. Handouts, AS5601-2013.
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1.1, 1.4, 1.5, 2.2, 2.4, 3.1, 4,3. | |
Session 9 | Flue design and installation. | Written assessment covering sizing various types of flueing systems. Handouts, AS5601-2013, DVD, PPT. | 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.3. | |
Session 10 | 1st revision exercise | Light commercial pipe sizing, ventilation, test time. Handouts, AS5601-2013. Practice design piping systems task 1. |
1.1,1.2,2.2,2.3,2.4,3.1,3.2. | |
Session 11 | 2nd revision exercise (mock exam). | Handout, AS5601-2013. Practice design piping systems task 2. |
1.1,1.2,2.2,2.3,2.4,3.1,3.2. | |
Session 12 | 3rd revision exercise (mock exam). | Handout, AS5601-2013.
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1.1,1.2,2.2,2.3,2.4,3.1,3.2. | Assessment 3 design piping systems. |
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
AS5601 - 2013 |
Other Resources
ESV website.
An approved Calculator
Overview of Assessment
Assessment may incorporate a variety of methods including written/oral activities and demonstration of practical skills to the relevant industry standards. Participants are advised that they are likely to be asked to personally demonstrate their assessment activities to their teacher/assessor. Feedback will be provided throughout the course.
Assessment Tasks
Students are required to complete three different types of assessment tasks
1. Assessment 1 - Quiz
2. Assessments 2 – Written assignment on appliance clearances
3. Assessment - 3 design piping systems.
To successfully complete this unit, a student needs to be deemed competent (CA grade) in all three assessment tasks.
Grading Criteria:
NYC - Not yet competent
CA - Competence Achieved
DNS - Did not submit assessment
Assessment Matrix
Assessment Task | Element | Percentage Weighting |
Assessment 1 - Quiz | 1.1 - 4.3 | 20 |
Assessment 2 - Written assignment on appliance clearances | 1.1 - 4.3 | 30 |
Assessment 3 - design piping systems | 1.1 - 4.3 | 50 |
Other Information
Academic Misconduct
Students are reminded that cheating, whether by fabrication, falsification of data, or plagiarism, is an offence subject to University disciplinary procedures. Plagiarism in oral or written presentations is the presentation of the work, idea or creation of another person, without appropriate referencing, as though it is one’s own. Plagiarism is not acceptable.
The use of another person’s work or ideas must be acknowledged. Failure to do so may result in charges of academic misconduct which carry a range of penalties including cancellation of results and exclusion from your course.
Students are responsible for ensuring that their work is kept in a secure place. It is also a disciplinary offence for students to allow their work to be plagiarized by another student.
Students should be aware of their rights and responsibilities regarding the use of copyright material. It is strongly recommended that students refer to the Guidelines for Students at the RMIT University Homepage.
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