SRM750 - Built Environment Professional Practice

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:Trimester 1: Waterfront (Geelong)
Trimester 2: Waterfront (Geelong)
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Glen Rodgers
Trimester 2: Glen Rodgers
Cohort rule:Nil
Prerequisite:

Students enrolled in D306 must have passed 24 credit points of study at levels 1, 2 & 3

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: SRM470, SRM591
Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

1 x 2 hour lecture per week, 1 x 2 hour seminar per week.

Content

This unit introduces knowledge of professional practise principles and explores the roles, functions, and interactions between different types of built environment professionals. This unit has an emphasis on professional practitioner involvement in the building construction industry, the roles of architects in working within their discipline, and with other built environment professionals.
In this unit you will develop understanding of the legal and ethical responsibilities of built environment professionals to clients, consultants and other parties. This exploration will enable students to contextualise professional practises, within economic, social, cultural and professional conditions. This unit also provides skills that enable the application of professional competency criteria that includes registration, principles of the law of contract, law of tort, copyright, moral rights and professional codes of conduct as they relate to built environment professionals.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Assess legislative, professional, and economic parameters required in setting up a built environment professional practice.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO2

Work collaboratively to analyse physical, economic and social parameters, and thereby demonstrate knowledge of the stages involved in a built environment project from inception to completion and evaluate relevant contractual processes.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving

ULO3

Evaluate ethical dimensions of built environment professional practice, in terms of social and environmental factors, as well as the legal implications of torts and negligence.

GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO4

Use development planning processes and heritage issues to prepare built environment project procurement.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO6: Self-management
GLO7: Teamwork
GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO5

Integrate knowledge of the costing of individual projects and the economic underpinnings of running a built environment professional practice to study feasibility.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO6 Understand the importance of teamwork in built environment professional practice, both within a practice, and in terms of working with consultants.

GLO7: Teamwork
GLO8: Global citizenship

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1
Project initiation
Professional fee, services proposal and engagement letter, 2500-3250 words 30% Week 4
Assessment 2
Planning work
Collaborative work: Organisation agreement and reports. Approximately 2750-3500 words 40% Week 8
Assessment 3
Contract administration
Individual report describing the principles and components of Contract Administration. 2500-3000 words 30% Week 12

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: SRM750 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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