Courses Handbook 2008 - [ Archived ]

311059 (v.1) Building Technology 204


Area: Department of Architecture and Interior Architecture
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
** 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 3 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 311060 (v.1) Building Technology 203 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 theoryof related construction (module two - two hour lecture per week).
** 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: 040300 Building (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*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
2008 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

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