1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

Recommended reading
Austroads. Rural Road Design - Guide to the Geometric Design of
Roads. Austroads, Sydney, 1989
Austroads. Pavement Design Guide - A Guide to the Structural
Design of Road Pavements. Austroads, Sydney, 1992
Underwood, R.T. Road Engineering Practice. 1st edn, Macmillan
Education, Melbourne, 1995
VicRoads. Guide to Pavement Desinn ., fTechnical * Bulletin 37).
VicRoads, Melbourne, 1993
CE470 Services
5 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn f;rGe&isite:
MM269 Services Instruction: lectures, field srnmions
Alcecm2at: sraminahn 604 arrersad .zemk 40%
This is a fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Technology
(Building Surveying)
Content
This subject deals with specialist services encountered in
commercial and office buildings.
The following services are covered: air-conditioning, fire
sprinklers, electrical services, specialist services, vertical
systems lifts and escalators. And in the area of site drainage,
elements of hydrology, applications to roof, surface and
subsurface drainage, hydraulics of pressure conduits, total
energy line, hydraulic grade line, graphical representation,
pipe formulas, minor losses, pump selection.
Recommended reading
Bergen, R.H. Elements of Hydrology, Swinburne University Press,
1985
Cordell Building Cost Guide: Commercial and Industrial, Housing
and New Construction.
Evett, J. B. and Lieu, C, Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics,
McGraw Hill, New York, 1987
Howard, C.A. An Introduction to Building Services, Hamilton
Education, London, 1988
Institution of Engineers, Australia, Australian Rainfall and
RunotE A Guide to Flood Estimation. Volume 1, 1987
patterson, J. Simpltfies Design for ~ iildin~ Fire Safety, Wiley, New
York 1993
3q dilia (PIT)
CE476 Construction Eng~neering (Elective),
8 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn Assessment:
assignments 50%, verbal presentations 50%
This is a fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Civil)
: Objectives
, To introduce students to engineering practice in a range of
construction activities.
: Content
Excavation excavation plant, drilling equipment,
blasting rock, setting out of open excavations, support
of open excavations.
Road construction operations in road construction,
quality control, plant output and selection, quarry
operation, stabilisation of subgrades, roller compacted
pavement, block pavement, geotextiles, layout of road
works, administration of road works.
Concrete production, delivery and inspection, crushed
aggregate and sand plant, concreting plant, delivery
systems, site inspection and quality control, formwork,
curing, cold and hot weather concreting, shotcrete,
precast concrete.
Foundation construction dewatering, ground anchors,
underpinning and shoring, footing and slab
construction.
Bridge construction methods for reinforced and
concrete bridges, segmental bridge
construction, girder launched construction.
CE477A Construction
5 vz?
7 credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisite: CE276 Construction Instruction: lectures,
site inspections Assessmm~ examination 60%, reports 40%
This is a fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Technology
(Building Surveying)
0 b jectives
To give students an appreciation of the general principles
and structural details for multi-storey structures.
Content
The subject covers structural systems, foundation types.
Construction systems steel construction, concrete
construction, including formwork and concrete placement.
Excavations methods, iquipment, trenching, rock
excavation. Cladding: and roofs cladding " and roof materials
and systems, curtainuwalls, glass and glazing sealants,
thermal and acoustical performance, cleaning and
maintenance trafficable and non-trafficable roofs, parapets,
stormwater discharge. Partitions, walls and ceilings materials
and details, acoustics, fire resistance and inspections of
appropriate sites.
Recommended reading
Economical Steelwork AISC
Various Australian Standards
CE477B Construction \w'i.
7 credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisites:
CE276 Construction, CE477A Construction 3 Instruction:
lectures, site inspections Assessment: examination 60%,
reports 40%
This is a fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Technology
(Building Surveying)
0 b jectives
This subject is designed to give students an appreciation of
the general principles, structural details of special structures.
Content
The topics are principles of structural action, materials,
structural details, and methods of construction for precast
and prefabricated structures, shells, folded-plate structures,
cable and membrane structures, air-inflated structures, highrise
post-tensioned structures, and other special structures
and inspections of appropriate sites.
Recommended reading
To be advised.