Course Title: Monitor costing systems on medium rise building and construction projects

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C5256 Diploma of Building and Construction (Building)

Course Title: Monitor costing systems on medium rise building and construction projects

Portfolio: Vocational Education

Nominal Hours: 60

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Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
BUIL5990C	City Campus	TAFE	130T Vocational Engineering	Face-to-Face or Internet	Term1 2012, Term2 2013, Term1 2014, Term2 2014, Term1 2015, Term2 2015, Term1 2016, Term2 2016
BUIL5990C	City Campus	TAFE	174T School of VE Engineering, Health & Science	Face-to-Face or Internet	Term1 2017, Term2 2017, Term1 2018, Term2 2018, Term2 2019, Term1 2020, Term2 2020, Term1 2021, Term2 2021
BUIL5990C	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.a

Course Description

In this course you will cover the outcomes required to monitor building or construction costing systems. The processes and practices involved in supervising and monitoring costing systems result in the ongoing maintenance of cost control and the production of expenditure schedules and other arrangements, which ensure contracts or projects remain on budget. In order to achieve the outcomes for this unit, knowledge of relevant legislation, codes and standards, industry estimating and costing systems, and financial principles is required.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Nil

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:	CPCCBC5002A Monitor costing systems on medium rise building and construction projects
Elements:	1. Supervise the identification and classification of project costs. 2. Manage the preparation of a schedule of project expenditure. 3. Prepare curves showing projected cash flow and payments. 4. Maintain continuous checks on expenditure and evaluate outcomes. 5. Prepare final cost report.

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 will incorporate a variety of methods including written, oral, practical tasks and activities. You will be asked to personally demonstrate to your teacher/assessor the practical skills gained during this course to the relevant industry standards. Assessment activities will occur throughout this course and feedback will be provided at regular intervals.

Assessment Tasks

Students must pass each of the following assessment tasks to demonstrate competent.

Assessment Task 1 Online Quiz 

Assessment Task 2 Project   Assessment Task 3 Project   Assessment Task 4 Final Online Quiz

To be deemed competent you must demonstrate an understanding of all aspects required of the competency. Assessment methods have been designed to measure your achievement of each competency in a flexible manner over multiple tasks.