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2025 unit information
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1 x 1 hour scheduled online lecture per week, 1 x 1 hour seminar per week for 7 weeks, 1 x 2 hour practical experience (studio) for 4 weeks
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.
Equipment Requirements: Students will be required to pay up to $30 for model materials (not included in standard student fees).
SRT151 introduces students to construction processes and structural systems. Students learn about building elements requisite to a simple residential building, such as footings, floors, walls and roofs: inclusive of common contemporary and alternative structural systems. In so doing, students will consider the engineering requirements of low-rise residential structures, such as loads, forces, fixing techniques and material properties. Energy efficiency and the global socio-ecological implications of material choices will also be considered. Further, students will be introduced to other key construction activities such as site surveys and condition reports, site establishment, excavation, bracing and off-site fabrication.
Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
Identify structural principles and apply them to construction systems and processes used in residential buildings.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO2: CommunicationGLO4: Critical thinking
Read, interpret and critique residential construction drawings with particular reference to compliance with Australian structural standards.
Analyse construction problems and communicate solutions through sketches, drawings and model making.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO2: CommunicationGLO4: Critical thinkingGLO5: Problem solvingGLO7: Teamwork
Appreciate the role of sustainable, regenerative and circular economy principles in materiality and the construction of residential and small scale buildings.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO4: Critical thinkingGLO5: Problem solving
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.
To be eligible to obtain a pass in this unit students must achieve at least 40% in the applied structural solution task.
The texts and reading list for SRT151 can be found via the University Library. 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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