Course Title: Building Quantities & Estimating 4
Part A: Course Overview
Program: C5016
Course Title: Building Quantities & Estimating 4
Portfolio: SET
Nominal Hours: 55.0
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) |
BUIL5214 |
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
This module will provide the learner with procedures and skills necessary to:
• Evaluate an invitation to tender
• Predict the nett cost of construction
• Prepare and submit a tender for commercial buildings up to an effective height of 25m and industrial projects
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
BUIL 5213 Building Quantities and Estimating 3 (ABC078)
National Competency Codes and Titles
National Element Code & Title: |
ABC079 Building Quantities & Estimating 4 |
Learning Outcomes
This course will provide the learner to develop knowledge & skills and be able to:
• State the issues influencing the decision to accept or reject an invitation to tender.
• Develop a procedure for the collection of the information.
• Compute charge-out rates for labour. Establish labour constants for elements of work
• Establish costing rates for plant and materials.
• Build-up the material, plant and labour elements into unit rates.
• Rate the items in the bill of quantities.
• Extend and check the bill of quantities
• Develop the costs for preliminaries and project overheads.
• Compute the value of general and statutory overheads.
• Prepare a tender for submission.
• State the actions necessary for successful and unsuccessful tenders.
Overview of Assessment
A combination of the following :
- Assignment
- Learning outcome test
- Written examination