CPCCBC5013 - Manage professional technical and legal reports on building and construction projects
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Prerequisites
Co-requisites
(Corequisite units must be studied concurrently with this unit)
Overview
This unit of competency specifies the skills and knowledge required to manage the development of technical and legal reports on buildings and commercial construction projects. It includes pre-property inspections and reports, building design and planning advice and reviewing and monitoring construction works.This unit of competency applies to builders, senior managers, building consultants and other construction industry personnel who advise on building design processes and conduct inspections to develop building and construction reports.
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, incl 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:
* maximise the effectiveness of resources, and oversee the building and construction works to effect contractual outcomes
* coordinate the design process and obtain planning approval
* address assessment of any controversy or doubts.
Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
* government building and construction legislative requirements:
* construction industry contracts including quantities establishment, rates and costs related to payments and claims
* building and construction industry subcontracting system
* relevant licensing arrangements
* human resource principles and practices
* work health and safety (WHS) Acts and regulations
* workplace safety requirements
* relevant state or territory building and construction codes, standards and regulations:
* National Construction Code (NCC)
* zoning and compliance with laws and by-laws by local authorities
* environmental and sustainability requirements:
* Environment Protection Authority (EPA)
* building and construction quality practices and processes:
* planning
* management of on and off-site operations technical and legal requirements
* engineering approvals by architectural or design consultants
* final design or specification client approvals
* finance approvals by lending bodies
* feasibility studies, including related information from:
* architectural or engineering practicalities
* availability and quantum of finance
* availability of services and conditions governing service provision
* change of use for existing buildings
* confirmation of ownership
* development on vacant land
* encumbrances or caveats on property
* environmental factors or constraints
* existing buildings/structures for a given purpose
* most cost-effective method of building for a given site or location
* refurbishment costs of buildings/structures
* special conditions that may apply to developments
* identification of defects through property inspections:
* adjoining properties
* confirmation of boundaries
* on-site inspections of buildings, structures or features
* site access and egress
* topographical and geological surveys.
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):