Course Title: Demonstrate knowledge of civil construction processes
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2008
Course Code: CIVE5564
Course Title: Demonstrate knowledge of civil construction processes
School: 130T Infra, Electrotec & Build Serv
Campus: City Campus
Program: C6066 - Advanced Diploma of Civil Engineering (Structural Design)
Course Contact : Tony Skinner Program Coordinator
Course Contact Phone: (03) 9925 4444
Course Contact Email:tony.skinner@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Program Coordinator:
Mr Tony Skinner
Tel. 9925 4444
Fax. 99254377
Email: tony.skinner@rmit.edu.au
Nominal Hours: 40
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
None
Course Description
This unit covers the competency to apply knowledge and understanding of civil construction processes to design and detail drafting activities and to communicate effectively with construction site and other civil engineering personnel. The emphasis is on road construction and steel, concrete and quarry products.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
EDC020 Demonstrate knowledge of civil construction processes |
Element: |
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of concrete construction |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 The essential constituents of concrete can be listed. |
Element: |
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of quarry plant and products and their use. |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 Quarry plant items can be identified. |
Element: |
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of structural steel construction |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1 The distinguishing elements of steel construction can be identified. |
Element: |
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of urban and rural road construction. |
Performance Criteria: |
4.1 Road pavement types can be sketched, labelled and described |
Element: |
Demonstrate knowledge of civil engineering terms and features. |
Performance Criteria: |
5.1 The distinguishing features of common civil engineering terms and features can be described. |
Element: |
Demonstrate knowledge of the various types and functions of pipes and the pipe laying techniques employed. |
Performance Criteria: |
6.1 The distinguishing features and uses of the variety of pipes and systems commonly used in civil practice can be explained. |
Element: |
Identify the construction procedure to be adopted and equipment required to perform a wide range of earthwork activities |
Performance Criteria: |
7.1 The nature and extent of the particular earthwork operation is assessed. |
Learning Outcomes
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of concrete construction
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of quarry plant and products and their use.
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of structural steel construction
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of urban and rural road construction.
Demonstrate knowledge of civil engineering terms and features.
Demonstrate knowledge of the various types and functions of pipes and the pipe laying techniques employed.
Identify the construction procedure to be adopted and equipment required to perform a wide range of earthwork activities
Details of Learning Activities
Teacher Directed:
• Teacher–led face to face lectures for each element in designated areas of underpinning knowledge, including workplace scenarios and the use of overheads, videos and notes from local web page and covering:
• General construction engineering
• Excavation and Earthworks techniques.
• Pipes and pipe laying techniques
• Steel Construction techniques
• Road Construction techniques
• Concrete Construction techniques
• the use of quarry products.
Student-based problem-solving:
• Participate in individual and team problem solving activities completed to industry standard related to construction processes on a typical engineering workplace construction site and covering:
• General construction engineering
• Excavation and Earthworks techniques.
• Pipes and pipe laying techniques
• Steel Construction techniques
• Road Construction techniques
• Concrete Construction techniques
• the use of quarry products.
Group-based:
• Participate in individual or small group research using Self Help Questions/Answers for each element in designated areas of underpinning knowledge, accessed via local web site for this unit.
Student-based research:
• Participate in an individual major written research project undertaken on a construction site addressing the designated areas of underpinning knowledge for each element.
Teaching Schedule
See Online Learning Hub for details.
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
Nil |
References
Civil Construction Techniques Notes, Book 1 and 2 available from the local web site for this unit. |
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Self Help Questions and Answers available from the local web site for this unit. |
Other Resources
Overview of Assessment
Context of assessment:
This unit will be assessed in the classroom environment using holistic assessment, based on typical workplace activities.
Assessment Method:
1. Test to cover:
- General Engineering/Pipeworks/Earthworks
- Concrete Works/Steelwork/Road Construction/Quarrying
2. Written Research Assignment/report covering a number of processes/techniques related to a construction project
The format of the test will include case studies and scenarios based on typical workplace activities to support problem-based assessment of ability to accurately complete calculations to industry standards. The industry standards applied will reflect those stated in the curriculum document under the sub-heading : ‘Critical aspects of assessment’
Assessment Tasks
Assessment of this unit will involve completion of:
• Two 1 ½ hour tests
• submission of a short written research report..
The format of the tests will include case studies and scenarios based on typical workplace activities to support problem-based assessment of ability to accurately complete calculations to industry standards. The industry standards applied will reflect those stated in the curriculum document under the sub-heading
Assessment Matrix
| Element Covered | Assessment Task | Proportion of Final Assessment | Submission Time |
| 1, 2, 3. | Test 1 | 45% | Week 5 |
| 4, 5, 6, 7. | Test 2 | 45% | Week 9 |
| All | Short Written report | 10% | Week 8 |
Other Information
Underpinning Skills and Knowledge
Earthworks Excavations (bulk v/s detail, rock v/s OTR, wet v/s dry conditions)
Equipment selection (suitability/mode of operation, production rate, cost of operating, safety)
Types of excavation (clearing/stripping, trenches, pads, footings, bulk road cuttings, piers, piling, setting out)
Pipeworks Types (vitrified clay, concrete, steel, cast iron, uPVC, advantages v/s disadvantages)
Uses (sewerage, stormwater, domestic water, supply, conduits)
Bed, joint and laying techniques
Testing procedures
Pits and ancillary structures
Set-out and alignment (laser, boning rod/profiling)
Maintenance
General Civil Aspects Culverts and bridges (types/uses)
Dams – types
Tunnelling (methods and tunnel lining)
Caissons
Breakwaters, quays, docks, locks, weirs
Construction safety w.r.t. all of the above
Civil engineering terms and features
Steel People involved in the structural steel industry
Design, ordering raw steel, shop drawings
Fabrication, treatment, delivery and erection
Bolting v/s welding
Uses in buildings, bridgework, mining and industrial projects etc
Roads Road elements and components (flexible pavements, rigid pavements, cross
section and drainage of urban and rural roads, road furniture)
Road construction (plan stages, plan stockpiles, plant for earth moving, trench
excavation, compaction and pavement)
Concrete Materials and readymix concrete suppliers
Roller compacted concrete
Transporting, placing, finishing, curing
Plain, reinforced and prestressed concrete
Uses in bridges, buildings, roads and dams
Quarry products Quarrying plant (pugmills, crushers, conveyors, screening, stockpiling and
washing, fixed v/s mobile plant)
Quarry layout
Quarry products (sand, gravel, clay, shale, crushed rock, dimension rock)
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