Course Title: Monitor costing systems on medium rise building and construction projects

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2015

Course Code: BUIL5990C

Course Title: Monitor costing systems on medium rise building and construction projects

School: 130T Vocational Engineering

Campus: City Campus

Program: C5256 - Diploma of Building and Construction (Building)

Course Contact: Program Manager

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4338

Course Contact Email: vocengineering@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Dr Partha Halder
E-mail: partha.halder@rmit.edu.au

Mr Matthew Sweeney
E-mail: matthew. sweeney@rmit.edu.au

Ms Daniela Bantle
E-mail: daniela.bantle@rmit.edu.au
 

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 monitor building or construction costing systems. The processes and practices involved in supervising and monitoring costing systems result in the ongoing maintenance of cost control and the production of expenditure schedules and other arrangements, which ensure contracts or projects remain on budget. In order to achieve the outcomes for this unit, knowledge of relevant legislation, codes and standards, industry estimating and costing systems, and financial principles is required.


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

CPCCBC5002A Monitor costing systems on medium rise building and construction projects

Element:

1. Supervise the identification and classification of project costs.

Performance Criteria:

1.1. Staff members are supervised in their identification of building or construction costs and accurate estimates are made from project schedules.
1.2. Definitive cost estimates are accurately translated into the correct cost centres appropriate to contract requirements.
1.3. Cost centres are correctly identified and incorporated into a planned project cost network.
1.4. Risk assessment is undertaken and estimated cost is compared with estimated risk.
1.5. Planning ensures compliance with relevant codes of practice, standards and legislative requirements.

Element:

2. Manage the preparation of a schedule of project expenditure.

Performance Criteria:

2.1. Draft schedules of project expenditure are prepared with critical points identified.
2.2. Expenditure schedules are prepared using organisational processes, and hard copies are produced.
2.3. Critical financial phases of the project are identified and cash flows are matched to expenditure.

Element:

3. Prepare curves showing projected cash flow and payments.

Performance Criteria:

3.1. Interim payment claims and rise and fall calculations are prepared for the contractor and subcontractors.
3.2. Projected S curve is prepared to show cash flow and resource control.
3.3. Projected cash flow and payments using time risk and cost risk are prepared and compared.
3.4. Cash flows using early start and late finish for pessimistic or optimistic outcomes are compared.
3.5. Pessimistic overdraft requirements are calculated.

Element:

4. Maintain continuous checks on expenditure and evaluate outcomes.

Performance Criteria:

4.1. Cash flow and creditor payments are monitored daily.
4.2. Budget cost of the network is compared to actual costs in the tender calculations.
4.3. Rise and fall clause calculations are undertaken and financial controller is advised of variations.
4.4. Reasons for any cost variations are analysed and identified.
4.5. Remedial action is taken and recorded as necessary to retain contract financial compliance.

Element:

5. Prepare final cost report.

Performance Criteria:

5.1. Actual costs are compared with estimates at the completion of the job and a report is compiled detailing future actions.
5.2. Organisational rates are adjusted as required, based on the final cost report and current movements in prices and rates.


Learning Outcomes


Refer to elements.
 


Details of Learning Activities

Please refer to teaching schedule below.


Teaching Schedule

Weeks Topics
Wk 1 – 3 - Monitoring Costing System
- Identification of building/ construction costs, preparation of estimates
- Translate estimates into cost centres, appropriate to contract requirements
 
Wk 4-6 - Codes of practice, standards, legislative requirements to consider in cost planning
- Risk assessment, compare estimated cost with estimated risk
- Draft schedule of project expenditure
 
Wk 7-9 - Prepare expenditure schedule using organizational processes, match cash flow to expenditure
- Interim payment claims, rise and fall calculations, Security of payment act (SOPA)
- Cash Flow - prepare S curve, resource control
 
Wk 10-12 - Cash Flow –projected payments using time risk, cost risk, early start late finish scenarios, overdraft requirements
- Monitor cash flow and creditor payments, compare budget to actual cost
- Rise and fall calculations, identify, analyse and advise variations
 
Wk 13-15

- Cost management – remedial action
- Earned and Actual value management, actual cost compared to estimate,
- Final cost report

Wk 16-18

- Course review
- Final assessment
- Supplementary and deferred assessments
 


 


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts

• Rawlinsons Australian Construction Handbook 2013, Rawlinsons Publishing, Perth, WA.
• A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) —Fifth Edition, 2013, Publisher: Project Management Institute
 


References


Other Resources


Overview of Assessment

Assessment will incorporate a variety of methods including written,oral, practical tasks and activities. You will be asked to personally demonstrate to your teacher/assessor the practical skills gained during this course to the relevant industry standards. Assessment activities will occur throughout this course and feedback will be provided at regular intervals.

Assessment Tasks

Students must pass each of the following assessment tasks to demonstrate competent.

Assessment

Weight

Assessment 1

Formative- Online Quiz

S/NYS

Assessment 2- Part A

Written Assignment

50%

Assessment 2- Part B

Written Assignment-S-curves and Cost summary 

30%

Task 3

Summative- Online Quiz

20%

These tasks assesses the following Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs):

Assessment Mapping Matrix

Element / Performance Criteria Covered

Assessment 1

Assessment 2A

Assessment 2B

Assessment 3

1.1

X

X

 

 

1.2

X

X

 

 

1.3

X

X

 

 

1.4

 

 

X

X

1.5

X

X

 

X

2.1

 

X

 

 

2.2

 

X

 

 

2.3

 

X

X

 

3.1

 

 

X

X

3.2

 

 

X

X

3.3

 

 

X

 

3.4

 

 

X

X

3.5

 

 

X

 

4.1

 

 

X

 

4.2

 

 

X

 

4.3

 

 

X

 

4.4

 

 

X

 

4.5

 

 

X

 

5.1

 

 

X

X

5.2

 

 

X

X

 

 

 

To be deemed competent you must demonstrate an understanding of all aspects required of the competency. Assessment methods have been designed to measure your achievement of each competency in a flexible manner over multiple tasks.


Assessment Tasks

Assessment 1- Online Quiz - 10%

Assessment 2 - Semester Long Assignment (SLA) - 60%

Assessment 3 - Written test (Test 1) - 30%
 


Assessment Matrix

Assessments 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 2.1 2.2 2.3 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 5.1 5.2
1. Online Quiz X X X                                  
2. Semester Long Assignment (SLA)     X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X    
3. Written Test                                     X X

Other Information

Competency requirements and Grading:

To be deemed competent students must demonstrate an understanding of all elements of a competency. Assessment methods have been designed to measure achievement of each competency in a flexible manner over multiple tasks.
Students are advised that they are likely to be asked to personally demonstrate their assessment work to their teacher to ensure that the relevant competency standards are being met. Observation of students performing work is used to confirm competency.

Grading available are:
Grade level Competency Level
CHD Competent with High Distinction -The learner will confidently apply novel but relevant solutions to unfamiliar and complex tasks.
CDI Competent with Distinction -The learner will confidently evaluate alternative solutions to an unfamiliar task or problem and use the most appropriate solution.
CC Competent with Credit -The learner will elegantly apply appropriate facts, rules and standard solutions to achieve an unfamiliar task or problem with confidence.
CAG Competency Achieved - Graded -The learner will be able to apply facts, rules and standard solutions to achieve a predictable task or solve a problem.
NYC Not Yet Competent
-Although the learner exhibits access to a limited range of facts and rules, the learner has difficulty applying these facts and rules to a familiar task.

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• Relevant
• Current
• Satisfies the learning/competency outcomes of the course
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