Part A: Course Overview

Program: C5415 Diploma of Building and Construction (Building)

Course Title: Build thermally efficient and sustainable structures

Portfolio: Vocational Education

Nominal Hours: 40

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Important Information:

Please note that this course may have compulsory in-person attendance requirements for some teaching activities.

Please read the Student website for additional requirements of in-person attendance: https://www.rmit.edu.au/covid/coming-to-campus

Please check your Canvas course shell closer to when the course starts to see if this course requires mandatory in-person attendance. The delivery method of the course might have to change quickly in response to changes in the local state/national directive regarding in-person course attendance.

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
BUIL6450C	City Campus	TAFE	530T Built Environment and Sustainability	Face-to-Face or Internet	Term1 2022

Course Contact: Matthew Sweeney

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4105

Course Contact Email: matthew.sweeney@rmit.edu.au

Course Description

In this course you will develop the skills and knowledge required to apply sound principles of thermal efficiency as part of the implementation of sustainable building and construction processes in response to the need to respond to growing consumer demand for sustainable buildings and environmentally friendly developments.

This course of competency supports the needs of builders, site managers and forepersons, and estimators in the building and construction industry.

 

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:	CPCCBC4020 Build thermally efficient and sustainable structures
Elements:	1. Apply legislative and planning requirements for thermal efficiency to the building process 2. Review design solutions for effectiveness and compliance 3. Manage the building process to ensure an effective outcome

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this course you will have developed and applied the skills and knowledge required to demonstrate competency in the above elements. 

Overview of Assessment

Assessment for this course is ongoing throughout the semester. Your knowledge and understanding of course content is assessed through participation in class exercises, oral presentations and through the application of learned skills and insights to your written tasks. Full assessment briefs will be provided and can be found on CANVAS.