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Building Infrastructure Audits- BLSV12020
Assessment One
Assignment 1- Building Infrastructure Audits 2
BLSV12020 Building Infrastructure Audits
Assessment item 1
Due Date 11:45pm AEST, 7 December 2020
Weight 30%
This assessment item relates to the following unit learning outcomes:
1. Discuss the difference between building inspections, audits and condition assessments.
2. Organise an inspection/audit/assessment from engagement to finalisation
3. Manage inspections of buildings subject of complaints and disputes
Grades- Question 1- 8 Marks
Question 2- 8 Marks
Question 3- 8 Marks
Presentation, spelling, grammar and references- 6 Marks
Total- 30 Marks
Question 1
It is your first day working for a small rural council as a building surveyor and building assets officer. You are now
in control of the maintenance/upgrade of 20 staff houses, 14 commercial buildings and the works depot.
Being the proactive person that you are, you have undertaken a search of the maintenance files for all of the
structures you are responsible for and found that all maintenance works are undertaken reactively only. No
proactive upgrade
enovation works have been undertaken to these structures too. There are no asset
management plans and the budget is exceeded each year. What a mess…
Write a memo to the General Manager explaining your findings and educate/encourage them of the benefits of
preventative proactive maintenance and upgrading of buildings. Your memo should detail the pitfalls of just
undertaking reactive maintenance, not having asset management plans, benefits of preventative maintenance
and upgrades of buildings. You should also provide a proposed action plan including implementation and review
timeframes.
Keep in mind, it’s your first day in the office, so be nice and professional in your memo. This is your chance to
show the GM that your appointment was a great decision.
Question 2
Following your time in the country, you have now accepted a job at a large city council where you supervise 10
uilding surveyors. On your first day in this office, you are approached by the Director and are advised that one of
your new building surveyors has certified a newly built awning which has just collapsed. The building surveyor
had assessed the awning during its original approval as a design and then during its construction at footing,
storm-water and then final stages. The homeowner is absolutely furious and is blaming the council.
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This is a delicate situation as your whole unit’s credibility could be on the line with this matter.
The Director has asked you to provide her with a proposed complaint management action plan for this issue. This
complaint management action plan needs to be provided to and approved by the director. As you are completely
new to the director she doesn’t trust you yet and this is your chance to demonstrate that you know what you are
doing.
Your complaint management plan is essentially an action plan. It should be at least 4 pages long, excluding title
pages, contents page, references page etc. The complaint management plan should propose how you will
approach this situation in order to find out:
- What the building surveyor that certified the structure has done
- What the home owne
s have done
- What are the defects and why are they defects
- Possible ways to mediate the matter
- What documents
eferences
eports/certificates are needed
- What process should follow if nothing is found on site or all/some defects are proven?
Remember, it’s important to be professional and keep an open mind when placed in these situations. It’s
sometimes easy to jump to the conclusion that something has gone wrong, when it is possible that nothing is
wrong or the accuser is the cause of the issues.
Question 3
Checklists are important not only for the large jobs, but also for those smaller jobs we can sometimes be given.
You have recently been promoted from your traineeship/cadetship position. One of your new responsibilities is to
supervise and guide the new trainee/cadet. While you used to be the one following instructions, you are now in
the position to instruct the newbie.
Your manager has asked you to be in charge of inspecting all boundary fencing that su
ound residential sites
owned by the council in order to identify whether upgrades
eplacement work is necessary. Each of these sites
have a single detached dwelling and detached garage on a standard residential block. Two of the houses have
swimming pools that adjoin the boundary fencing. Each of these sites have front, side and rear boundary fencing
with a small driveway gate.
You are much too busy to inspect fencing yourself, plus it’s the middle of summer. Why not use the trainee? They
can learn from the process, while you can benefit from developing your supervisory skills (and the air-conditioned
office).
The best way to ensure completeness and consistency of each fence and gate assessment is to develop a
checklist.
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Develop a one page checklist that enables the trainee to inspect, assess and report on the condition of the
fencing and gate. This checklist will then enable you to develop a spreadsheet documenting the condition levels,
so make sure all relevant information is detailed on the checklist like type of fencing, size, location etc.
The checklist should be clear and concise as the majority of the sites are located hours away from mobile phone
eception and to ensure you meet your managers expectations you want the trainee to complete the inspection on
a single visit so you can submit your report on time. Good luck!!
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Marking Criteria
Criteria Fail Pass Credit Distinction High Distinction
50% ≥50% & <65% ≥65% & <75% ≥75% & < 85% ≥ 85%
Format,
References,
Presentation
(6 marks)
No submission or
poorly written.
Acceptable presentation with some
components missing; spelling/grammar
mistakes.
Complete submission; Brief but fully detailed
professional presentation with cover page,
page numbers, table of contents, title,
subtitles, and references; no spelling/grammar
mistakes; Harvard reference style.
Question 1
(8 Marks)
Submission
demonstrates a poor
understanding of the
enefits of proactive
asset management
maintenance
processes, critical
e
ors in the asset
management process,
absence of core
elements of asset
management
procedures. Poorly
structured action plan.
Missing key elements of
assessment
Submission
demonstrates a basic
understanding of
uilding asset
management processes.
Simple means of
demonstrating the
enefits of proactive
asset maintenance
processes. Lack of
critical discussion on
proactive
eactive
maintenance, asset
management plans,
upgrading of buildings.
Submission demonstrates a good
understanding of preventative
maintenance on building assets,
structured building asset
management plans, budgetary
considerations and upgrading
assets. Action plan is linked with rest
of submission to GM and is
appropriate for number of building
assets and budget considerations.
Submission demonstrates
an excellent understanding
of building asset
management processes.
Can clearly and
comprehensively
demonstrate the benefits
of preventative and
proactive maintenance
processes, management
of budgets
esources,
action plan and review
timeframes corelate to
information within memo
an are appropriate to
number and type of
assets.
Question 2
(8 marks)
Poor discussion on the
proposed approach to
deal with the incident.
Complaint management
plan does not address
question. Plan focuses
lame on a particular
party. Plan is largely
generic in nature and is
not specific to particular
incident.
Basic discussion on the
proposed process of
investigation and
process/es thereafter.
Limited process
proposed, generic
plan/process rather than
specific action
plan/process.
Submission clearly demonstrates a
good understanding of how to
propose an appropriate way of
managing this incident in terms of
investigation, keeping open mind on
potential liable parties, defining the
defects, options of how to mediate
the matter, range of information to
support the decision-making process
and next steps in the situation.
Excellent response to the
assessment question. The
proposed action plan
clinically and
comprehensively responds
to incident by proposing a
detailed and incident
specific action plan that
covers all elements of the
assessment question,
keeps an open mind on
the matter and details an
appropriate set of next
steps to manage the
situation.
Question 3
(8 marks)
Poorly developed
checklist that is missing
fundamental elements
to the checklist and is
not relevant to the type
of building element
discussed in the
assessment question.
Basic checklist that has
not considered all
elevant elements of a
checklist and is missing
some elements relevant
to the type of structure
subject of the
assessment question.
Submission demonstrates a good
checklist that could be practically
used for the purpose detailed within
the assessment question. Checklist
is thorough, relates to specific
structure detailed in assessment
question and enables a good
understanding of the condition rating
of the structure.
Clinical and
comprehensive checklist
that covers all elements of
the assessment question
and would enable a
detailed understanding of
the property and condition
of the structure subject of
the assessment question.
Late submission will be penalised by 5% per calendar day.
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