304647 (v.1) Built Environment 283

Area:

School of Public Health

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

6.0

** 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. **

Lecture:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Practical:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Syllabus:

Building - building materials and construction methods, planning, site evaluation and classification, system building and the function of buildings, interpretation of plans and specifications. Operation of the building industry. Principal control authorities. Technical drawing and interpretation of drawings. Health and safety - lighting, heating ventilation, insulation, fire safety, design features for disaster prone areas. Town planning - environmental health. Building contract theory, liabilities, andsafety provisions. Principles and statutory controls for demolition. Statutory references to town planning, local authorities. Aspects of population geography and urban geography in relation to problems of environmental health. Topic areas within physical geography related to urban and rural land use. Maps and air photo interpretation. An introduction to geographic information systems. Field exercises. The composition of waste, collection, treatment and disposal techniques. Site selection and evaluation with focus on aspects of environmental and public health significance. Recycling and waste minimisation. Statutory controls.

** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **

Field of Education:

061303 Environmental Health

Funding Cluster:

06 - Computing, Built Environment, Health

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2007	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