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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

311739 (v.1) Building Measurement 144

Note

Tuition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

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Area: Department of Construction Management
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Introduction to the application of measurement in the construction industry, use of dimension paper, conventions for setting out and recording measurements, quality control procedures for completing measurement tasks, and practical experience of measuring simple examples of all major building trades. Computer systems. A general theoretical and practical background to the use of computers in the solution of problems relating to building. Computer programming and evaluation of the application of computer packages.
Syllabus: Application of measurement in the construction industry. The use of dimension paper, and conventions for setting out and recording measurements. Quality control procedures for completing measurement tasks. Introduction to the Standard Method of Measurement of Building Works and measuring examples of major building trades for domestic construction.
Field of Education: 040300 Building (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External