Unit description
Introduces students to the organisation, implementation and management of strategies to purchase, maintain and enhance the longevity of public and private infrastructure assets. Software tools will be utilised and students will undertake activities that integrate underpinning theories and best engineering industry practice.
Unit content
Topic 1. Principles of life-cycle analyses associated with operation, maintenance and renewal of infrastructure assets
Topic 2. Assessing remaining service life and renewal strategies
Topic 3. Familiarisation with software tools
Topic 4. Planning and implementation of asset management: managing costs, resources, quality and risks
Topic 5. Asset management frameworks
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
Learning outcomes and graduate attributes
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apply life-cycle analysis to infrastructure assets | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 2 | Evaluate the required service life of infrastructure assets | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||||
| 3 | Familiarisation and application of asset management-based software tools | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||||
| 4 | Integrate theory and best practice of infrastructure asset management to a case study | Intellectual rigour | Creativity | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||
| 5 | Understand and apply asset management frameworks | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
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Commencing 2015 Commonwealth Supported only. Student contribution band: 3
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