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Level 5
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15 Credits
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0.125 EFTS
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Course duration: 16 weeks
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Workload - Approximately 10 hours per week
This online course will enable you to understand the relationship between the choice of site and structure of a small building, taking into consideration site limitations, small building design, the envelope and interior. You will learn how a building is constructed in accordance with NZS 3604 and the Building Code to specific and non-specific design.
Students who complete this course will be able to (for residential construction)
- Identify, analyse and describe the limitations of a small building site in terms of the relevant legislative requirements and building implications for a new build
- Determine and describe the type of structure that can be built on a given site in terms of its foundations structure, bracing and internal and external finished
- Identify the requirements of the Building Code as they relate to non-specific building design
- Create simple technical sketches for construction from a given brief
Course content includes
- Site limitations: Environment, vegetation, water, structures, services, adjacent sites, geotechnical and topographical as well as LIM information and considerations of buildability and cost
- Environment is not only about climatic elements but also about the environment created
- Legislative requirements: Resource Management Act and district plan (operative and proposed)
- For each part of the structure (e.g. foundations etc.) consider the construction process (site constraints, materials, time, general cost implications)
- In addition, description of foundation includes geotechnical factors; description of structure includes cladding; description of envelope includes wall and roof claddings and openings and cladding jointing systems; description of building interior includes linings, joinery and fitments that match the required structure and meet or exceed regulatory requirements.
- Ruled or free hand sketching to identify components and structural details as well as their functions
- Provide how to obtain a property title from LINZ
Assessment
100% internally assessed
Textbooks
No textbooks are required for this course
How to enrol
Before enrolling in this course you need to:
- choose the qualification you will study the course under
- check the order that courses in the qualification should be studied in the Qualification Structure table. This is in the Choose courses and apply tab on the qualification page.