VU23457 - Manage architectural project administration

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Unit code: VU23457 | Study level: TAFE
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Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to manage the development and administration of the building project documentation.
It requires the ability to apply the relevant legislation relating to project administration and to comply with the organisational requirements for quality assurance.This unit applies to building designers who manage the documentation and administration requirements for building projects within the legal responsibilities of building designers.

Assessment

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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:
• manage the aspects of administration for at least one architectural project
In completing the above there must also be evidence that the learner has:
• determined the requirements for contract legislation, standard architectural and building contracts, contract documentation processes and legal implications for all parties and liability
• complied with copyright and competition legislation
• complied with consumer legislation
• completed a standard contract and specifications associated with the architectural project
• completed a project management schedule for the project.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
• common terminology, definitions, methods, process and procedures used in relation to a design drafting office
• relevant legislation and how it relates to architectural services and the building industry
• organisational quality assurance standards and procedures related to managing architectural project administration.
• legal liabilities of parties involved in the execution of a building project
• basic cost indicators for a building project
• standard building contracts and their essential components
• contract documentation process, including order of precedence and relationships between the documents.
• legal liabilities of each party within the terms of the contract conditions under which a contract can be deemed valid or invalid.
• agencies and the means available in the process of contract enforcement
• means for the resolution of disputes
• principles of project management, including project constraints
• use and implication of specification notes on drawings
• file transmittal, revision and management of project file
• use of project management software.

Required reading

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

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Advanced Diploma of Building Design (Architectural)
22627VIC | Advanced diploma | Duration:

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