CPCPGS4011C - Design and size consumer gas installations

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Unit code: CPCPGS4011C | Study level: TAFE
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Overview

This unit of competency specifies the outcomes required to design, size and document a consumer's gas installation, including consumer piping operating up to a pressure of 200kPa, fluing, ventilation and appliance installation associated with natural gas (NG), simulated natural gas (SNG), liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and tempered liquefied petroleum gas (TLPG) for a building of minimum four floors and multiple buildings supplied through one gas source (billing meter or storage tank).  It covers preparing for work, determining gas installation design requirements, detailed planning of the layout, and completing work finalisation processes, including records and documentation.

Assessment

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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.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

  • communication skills to: enable clear and direct communication, using questioning to identify and confirm requirements, share information, listen and understand; follow instructions; identify requirements, including system requirements;
  • use language and concepts appropriate to cultural differences;
  • use and interpret non-verbal communication;
  • initiative and enterprise skills to identify and report to appropriate personnel any faults in tools, equipment or materials;
  • literacy skills to: access and understand site-specific instructions in a variety of media;
  • read and interpret: documentation from a variety of sources; regulations, relevant Australian standards, plans, specifications and drawings; record plans in writing and complete workplace documentation;
  • numeracy skills to apply measurements and calculations;
  • planning and organising skills to: organise and sequence tasks with others; plan and set out work;
  • technical skills to plan, size and document layout of gas installations for single and multiple buildings consisting of a minimum of four floors;
  • teamwork skills to work with others to action tasks and relate to people from a range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds and with varying physical and mental abilities, and;
  • access and understand site-specific instructions in a variety of media; use mobile communication technology.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the Polytechnic and/or via the Polytechnic e-learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is not compulsory for any specific course. Depending on the course you study, this unit may be taken as an elective.

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