Credit Points 10

Legacy Code 301104

Coordinator Payam Rahnamayiezekavat Opens in new window

Description The basis of this unit is to ensure students become accustomed to reading and interpreting building and related laws. The unit provides students with background knowledge of the negligence, administrative law, life safety, proportional liability, contracts and statutory interpretation as it applies to architecture, building surveying, fire engineering and bushfire protection. The unit studies the codes of professional conduct, ethics, conflict of interest and the rules of evidence within the legal constraints when acting as certifiers and or experts. The jurisdictional requirements for certification are considered and assessed. These professions can act as expert witnesses and consequently need to understand codes of professional conduct, ethics, conflict of interest and the rules of providing expert evidence. In doing so, they are potentially required to brief solicitors or other legal professionals and will ultimately have a duty to the court or tribunal.

School Eng, Design & Built Env

Discipline Building Surveying

Student Contribution Band HECS Band 2 10cp

Level Postgraduate Coursework Level 7 subject

Restrictions

Students must be enrolled in the following Programs:
3703 Master of Building Surveying
3704 Graduate Diploma in Building Surveying
3705 Master of Fire Safety Engineering
3706 Graduate Diploma in Fire Safety Engineering
3708 Master of Bushfire Protection
3709 Graduate Diploma in Bushfire Protection
3761 Master of Architecture (Urban Transformation)
3793    Graduate Diploma in Bushfire Protection

Students enrolled in the 3703 Master of Building Surveying or 3704 Graduate Diploma in Building Surveying must have completed 40 credit points prior to enrolling in this Subject