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CPCCBS6003 Apply legal and ethical requirements to building surveying functions
Assessment - Research Project - Residential building
This assessment task relates to the processing and inspection of a residential Class 1 building project. You may select a relevant project from your local area.
Consider the requirements that relate to this type of building and advise the following:
1. Provide a copy of a site plan or aerial photograph and include a brief description of the building project.
2. Identify the climate, geographic and planning zones that apply to the site. Describe how these zones may impact on the conduct and information requirements of your inspection.
3. Identify any codes, regulations and legislation applicable to the building project. Indicate the applicable sections of each and provide written evidence of how you will apply the principles of the Code of Conduct in your assessment and processing of the project.
4. Research and document the administrative procedures that you must follow to ensure completion of the project. Your response should include:
a) Timelines
b) Required documentation
c) Compliance requirements - how they are determined and assessed
d) Exemption requests - which exemptions may be available under the relevant legislation/regulations and the procedures for dealing with them
e) Administrative requirements - How problems in meeting administrative requirements are managed, including referral for external advice.
f) What record keeping processes must you undertake to ensure compliance and good management?
5. Identify State, Territory and Local Planning Authority constraints that apply to the project.
6. Describe three different examples of how you have (or would) handle complaints or disputes from different clients, using relevant dispute-handling procedures and according to the organisational or industry Code of Conduct.
7. Describe what communications will take place during the building surveying component of the project, between you and your client/applicant and other stakeholders, for each of the following components:
a) The need for proper and complete documentation
b) Compliance with legislation, regulations and the NCC
c) Availability and scope of dispute resolution processes.
8. Review an inspection that you have conducted in the past. Discuss the ethical and legal implications of conducting an on-site building inspection.
Your answer should include details of:
a) Your comments in relation to actual or potential ethical and legal issues, particularly in relation to the following matters.
b) Inspection details -date, location, names of participants, property identification
c) A brief summary of:
• inspection documentation
• Site discussions/interviews
• Observations made during the inspection
• What specialists were consulted to identify and assess the extent of non-compliance or risk to public health and safety?