Sustainability in Assets and Facilities

Course aim

To provide students with an understanding of environmental sustainability concepts and practices and the integration of these practices to the design, construction and maintenance of assets and infrastructure.

Course content

Asset sustainability and environmental concepts, sustainability philosophies, assessment against environmental and sustainability benchmarks, identification of sustainability performance indicators. Integration of design and construction techniques into the sustainability framework, sustainable communities, life cost planning and analysis. Energy, water and other resource consumption. Technical fixes, durability issues, maintenance management, risk analysis, special cases and legislation.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Assignment 1: paper and presentation, Assignment 2: paper and presentation, Quiz

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 2)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.