Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit's learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.
A person demonstrating competency in this unit must satisfy all of the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit. The person must plan for, conduct and report on building surveying audits for four different projects involving the following class 1 and 10 buildings or structures as defined in the Building Code of Australia (BCA):
- two types of class 1a buildings in different locations;
- one class 1b building, and;
- one class 10 building or structure: bushfire shelter, swimming pool or retaining wall.
Each of the building surveying audits must include:
- a documented plan outlining the schedule of the building surveying audit, its scope and limitations, and the compliance criteria to be audited;
- evidence of research undertaken to identify the relevant compliance requirements of the building to be audited, including additional local planning policies that are to be included in the audit;
- liaison with relevant specialist consultants to obtain expert advice and recommendations on aspects of the building systems and materials, construction materials or methods or other relevant components of the building;
- a written report on the completed building surveying audit specifying:
- inclusions and exclusions of the building surveying audit conducted;
- items of the building which were compliant or which met deemed-to-satisfy provisions of the BCA;
- items of the building that did not meet compliance requirements;
- findings and recommendations of specialist consultants, and;
- strategies for achieving compliance.Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
- audit methodology;
- audit report inclusions;
- BCA classification and definitions for class 1 and 10 buildings and structures;
- construction methods and materials suitable for class 1 and 10 buildings and structures;
- drawing symbols, notations, acronyms and construction terminology used in the National Construction Code (NCC), Australian standards, working drawings, building design specifications, and building permit documentation;
- roles and responsibilities of specialist consultants, and;
- processes for writing building surveying audit reports, including use of assumptions.
