CPCCBS6116 - Assess and advise on performance solutions for Class 2 to 9 buildings to three storeys
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Prerequisites
(Or equivalent to be determined by unit coordinator)
Co-requisites
(Corequisite units must be studied concurrently with this unit)
Overview
This unit of competency specifies the skills and knowledge required to advise on the application of National Construction Code (NCC) requirements for performance solutions for buildings in Classes 2 to 9 up to three storeys and not exceeding 2,000 square metres in floor area, and to apply approved assessment methods to determine whether a proposed solution is compliant. It includes assessing architectural drawings and specifications for performance solutions and analysing them in relation to the relevant sections of the NCC and the Plumbing Code of Australia (PCA).This unit is suitable for building surveyors who draw on their broad theoretical knowledge and technical skills to provide advice to architects and building designers on compliance requirements and options for performance solutions, or act in the statutory role with responsibility for assessing and certifying compliance of performance solutions. Under legislation building surveyors are responsible for ensuring that there is no conflict of interest between the two roles. Building surveyors cannot advise on, and then certify, the same performance solution.
Assessment
For Melbourne campuses
Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.
Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:
A candidate must meet the elements and performance criteria of this unit by assessing, advising on, and certifying as compliant a total of three performance solutions for projects that include the following Classes of buildings as defined by the National Construction Code (NCC):
- one project incorporating Class 5 or Class 6
- one project incorporating Class 2 or Class 3 or Class 9c
- one project incorporating Class 7 or Class 8.
Each building must be up to three storeys and not exceeding 2,000 square metres in floor area, and in a different geographical location as defined by the NCC.
Of the three performance solutions: - one must be a performance solution for fire safety
- two must be performance solutions for structural safety, health, amenity and sustainability.
Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge of:
- design principles that are applied when analysing the compliance of performance solutions for structural safety, health, amenity and sustainability:
- access and egress, including access for people with a disability
- damp and weatherproofing
- energy efficiency
- light and ventilation
- room heights
- sanitary and other facilities
- services and equipment
- sound transmission and insulation
- structural safety
- NCC classifications and definitions for buildings included in Classes 2 to 9:
- building types
- geographic and climate zones
- NCC requirements for assessing performance solutions relevant to buildings included in Classes 2 to 9
- principles of fire safety engineering relevant to buildings included in Classes 2 to 9:
- characteristics of building materials in relation to fire
- fire-modelling
- fire science:
- fire behaviour and dynamics
- impact of fire on structures and materials
- products of combustion
- fire control strategies
- fire retardants
- fire detection technologies
- fire suppression technologies
- fire containment
- human response to fire
- interconnection of fire systems, including cause and effect matrix
- interaction with other services
- project management strategies that ensure thorough and timely advice is delivered according to service level agreement
- regulatory intent of performance solutions
- scope and limitations of building surveyor role in relation to advising on or certifying performance solutions
- workplace requirements for assessing and advising on performance solutions for buildings included in Classes 2 to 9:
- client service
- documentation and reporting.
Required reading
The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system.
As part of a course
This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):