Infrastructure Workshop

Course aim

To provide students with an understanding of how physical infrastructure is planned for and provided as part of the process of urban and regional development

Course content

Water provision. Stormwater management and catchment planning. Transport provision. Resource efficiency. Urban food production. Waste management. Energy efficient development. Modern construction materials and technologies; intelligent buildings. Telecommunications and ‘smart cities’. The planning, budgeting and programming of infrastructure provision. The use of Gantt charts in project management. Case studies of settlements employing more sustainable forms of infrastructure. ‘Work-shopping’ and preparing a Master Plan for the infrastructure requirements for a hypothetical settlement within either an urban ‘brownfields’ or urban ‘greenfields’ or metropolitan fringe or rural community context.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, CITY EAST
Lecture	1 hour x 11 weeks
Workshop	2 hours x 11 weeks
Field Placement (Field trip)	4 hours x 1 week

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

Assessment

Group project presentation plus executive summary, Open book examination, Tutorial paper

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.