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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.

311059 (v.1) Building Technology 204

Area: Department of Architecture and Interior Architecture
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 311060 (v.1) Building Technology 203 or any previous version
OR
7578 (v.8) Building Technology 201 or any previous version
Syllabus: Focuses on two introductory modules concerned with the design of small-scale framed buildings. Construction and Materials includes: properties and application of framing components and cladding materials, related 'skin and frame' construction systems and embodied energy of construction (module one - one hour lecture and one hour tutorial per week). Students undertake project-based design exercises, including tuition with structural engineers and related field trips. Theory of Structures - basic theory of related construction (module two - two hour lecture per week).
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
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 Lim Kok Wing Uni Malaysia 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