Course Title: Building Site Surveying & Set Out 1
Part A: Course Overview
Program: C4014
Course Title: Building Site Surveying & Set Out 1
Portfolio: SET
Nominal Hours: 50.0
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.Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
GEOM5036 |
City Campus |
TAFE |
130T Infra, Electrotec & Build Serv |
Face-to-Face |
Course Contact: Warwick Brewster
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4334
Course Contact Email: warbrew@rmit.edu.au
Course Description
To provide the learner with the knowledge, skills and practical experience necessary to set out residential projects using basic measuring and levelling equipment.
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
None
National Competency Codes and Titles
National Element Code & Title: |
ABC083 Building Site Surveying & Set Out 1 |
Learning Outcomes
This course will provide the learner to develop the knowledge & skills and able to:
• Carry out basic setting out techniques and associated calculations.
• Apply basic measuring techniques to solve problems determine quantities such as area and volumes (cut and fill).
• Set up and use an automatic level and reduce observations for the determination of differences in height and reduced levels.
• Mark out and determine levels on a grid for contouring and volume calculations.
• Construct longitudinal sections and determine associated grades and levels in typical drainage and pipeline situations.
Overview of Assessment
The assessment is done through a combination of:
• Field exercises
• Written examination