308888 (v.1) Civil Engineering Contracts and Quality 462


Area: Department of Civil Engineering
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 3.0
 
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Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
 
Syllabus: This unit will not be available until 2007. Contracts - the entire semester is directed to a detailed study of General Conditions of Contract documents for Civil Engineering Works particularly AS 2124. Lectures will be supplemented by court case studiespresented by students. Quality - fundamentals and vocabulary of quality management. Systems of quality management. Management responsibility - commitment, focus, policy, planning, authority, communication, review. Resource management - people, infrastructure, environment, the costs of quality, information, suppliers, natural, financial. Product realisation - planning, customers, design, procurement, control of processes, production, construction, commissioning and handover, control of measuring and monitoring devices. Measuring, monitoring and improvement - systems, processes, products, nonconformity, corrective and preventive actions.
 
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Field of Education: 90901 Business and Commercial Law
Funding Cluster: 01 - Law
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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