Reference no: EM133018678

CPCCBC4004A Identify and Produce Estimated Cost for Building and Construction Projects

Assessment Overview

This assessment kit contains practical and theory based tasks designed and mapped to the performance criteria required for the units of competency within this kit. This assessment is aimed towards those that would like to increase and improve their skills in the workplace and or personal life. It provides the tools to confidently prepare for and work in a variety of situations. This assessment will provide you with opportunities to learn new skills and techniques as well as building on existing or previously learned expertise.

Your completed assessment tasks will provide evidence for your assessor to determine whether participants have successfully performed and satisfied all of the requirements to achieve competency.

Each assessment task includes clear and explicit instructions detailing how you are to complete the task, and what evidence must be submitted by when to be successful. Assessment task instructions also indicate how long each task will take and what you need to do to complete that task.

Assessment Task 1 - Knowledge Questions

1. Look at the Garage plans and answer the following questions:

a) Name the type of plans you have been provided with.

b) List the measurements for the:
c) Estimate the quantity of bricks and roofing required.
d) List a minimum of (3) three types of trades that will work on site and estimate the time they will need on site for their part of the project.

2. Your client has asked for butcher's block wood to be used as the bench top for their large kitchen island as they love the country farm house look. However, when you checked what their regular activities would be when using the bench top, the client advised that they also like to do their pottery painting on the bench top.

a) List an alternative material you could recommend the client use (that would still give them the country style look) instead of the wood as this could get damaged during the art works.
b) Write down what you would say to the client to explain the possible problems with the wood surface and how you persuade them to use the alternative material you listed in (a).

3. Complete the table below, by listing (3) three materials, their limitations during transportation and actions to take to prevent them getting damaged.
4. During the construction of a low rise building explain the following:

a) How to preserve timber using established methods

b) How to protect ferrous and no-ferrous metals

5. Explain the procedures that are used in your company for the supervision of small teams.

6. a) List (4) four materials used during the construction of a low rise building and answer the following questions:

i. Explain their properties
ii. Explain their qualities
iii. What materials are they compatible to be used with?
iv. What materials are they not compatible to be used with?
b) Explain how you would test each of the materials listed in (a) to ensure they are safe and suitable for use.

7. In relation to the materials listed at Q6, describe the short and long-term degradation of materials in relation to the building's proposed life cycle.

8. a) Identify the allowable tolerances associated with a steel frame for a one storey house.

b) Briefly explain the impact of the tolerances on the building.

9. Explain the procedures your organization uses to maintain effective sampling and record keeping practices.

10. a) Briefly describe what ‘non-contract' elements of on-site work are.
b) Calculate the labour hours for the ‘non-contract' elements you listed in (a) according to the
Garage Plans Handout.

11. Explain the use of a call forward sheet.

Assessment Task 2 - Project

This project can be completed either within the classroom or in your own time. The project lays further foundations for the following assessments.

It is recommended that you keep a blank template of the forms and schedules use in this assessment as these blank templates will be required to be completed in the group activity in Assessment Task 3.

If this assessment will be completed in class, it is an open book assessment - you will have access to the internet, must have access to appropriate costing software program and may refer to your workbooks or any other materials at any time during the assessment. You may ask for assistance if you have reasonable grounds for adjustment to have the questions asked and answered orally. If you have any concerns or questions about this assessment task, your assessor may give your assistance or guidance.

In this task you will work individually using the Garage Plans handout to produce the following (main structure is brick and roofing is Colourbond):

• estimates
• actual costs
• schedules (ensure schedules include colour sections)
• orders (ensure contract details and instructions are included)
• overlay drawings
• site files
• identify environmental impacts of the (2) two of the materials to be used
• storage of materials being used according to the manufacturers specifications

Assessment Task 3 - Practical Activity
Assessor Instructions
In this task you will be working in groups of a minimum of (4) four people. This task is based on the information gathered in the Assessment Task 2 Project and you should have blank templates of the forms and schedules you used in that assessment. For this assessment you may complete these forms in hand writing if there is no access to enough computers.

Initially (Assessment Task 2) the garage was being built in brick with a Colourbond roof, however the client has now changed their mind and requested that the garage be built of wood with the outer
covering being Hardiplank. This is because they've decided to upgrade the outside of their house
and they are having their old weatherboards covered in Hardiplank.

• Work out all the details as a group and each complete your individual assessment sheets and templates you created in Assessment Task 2.
• Use the Criteria checklist provided on the following (2) two pages to guide you through the process
• Discuss:
o relevant safe work practices
o processes for inspecting materials delivered on site
o processes for dealing with defects in the materials caused by incorrect installation, application or placement
o material handling and testing procedures
o methods used to ensure timber is preserved and ferrous and non-ferrous metals used in the construction process are protected, using established methods
• Ensure you have the cost and regulatory and environmental comparisons between using bricks versus Hardiplank clearly documented to use in Assessment Task 4 Role Plays.
• You will be assessed using the Observation Checklist following the Criteria Checklist.
• Ensure schedules include colour sections

Assessment Task 4 - Role Play

Part A - Team Role Play
• Participant is playing the supervisor of a small team and is discussing the changes the client made from having their garage built in brick to Hardiplank (a minimum of (2) two other people are required to make up the ‘team').

• The supervisor will have the garage plans and all documentation created in Assessment Task 3 to briefly show his team.

• One of the team members is to get a little agitated as they are annoyed at the late change. This team member is to ‘act' culturally different from the supervisor, (e.g. may gesture wildly or speak very loudly even though they are not meaning to be rude).

• The supervisor is to handle the situation, calm the agitated team member and move forward with the project.

You need to briefly address the following aspects in your discussion:

• Changes to the schedules, orders and site files
• Application of safe work practices and materials handling now being used with the different material
• Mention the BCA, Australian standards and/or Plumbing Codes involved
• Storage of the Hardiplank during construction
• Briefly reiterate the standardised procedure the participant previously created in Assessment Task 2
• Use the cost and regulatory comparisons you documented in Assessment Task 3
• Processes to be implemented for inspecting all materials delivered on site for naturally occurring and/or manufactured defects before installation
• Actions to be taken in the case of defects caused by incorrect installation, application or placement

Part B - Client Role Play
You are to explain to the client the ramifications of the changes made to their Garage project. The person playing the client will get annoyed at the extra cost attached to storing the Hardiplank as it is different to bricks sitting out in the open during construction. The participant is to handle the situation, calm their annoyed client and ensure the client is happy to move forward with the project.

You must include the following aspects in your discussion:

• Show and explain the cost and regulatory changes from the original quoting using the document created in Assessment Task 3
• Explain any changes to the timeframes originally quoted
• Explain new storage requirements of the Hardiplank during construction and the additional cost associated with that as they need to be stored differently to bricks

Assessment Task 5 - Video Demonstration /Site Visit

Part A is the video demonstration during site visite, the participant is to create of themselves accepting the delivery of (2) two types of materials on a construction site. The video is to go for a minimum of 2-5 minutes and the participant must incorporate the following:

• Effectively and efficiently test materials to maintain quality standards on site
• Maintain effective sampling and record-keeping processes During the video the participant is to explain the following:
• Limitations and effects of transportation on materials and action to be taken in the case of potentially damaging circumstances
• Materials are handled correctly and safely on site using appropriate equipment and safe work practices
• Materials are stored in accordance with manufacturer specifications and in compliance with relevant Australian standards

Part B
The participant is to provide the documentation supporting the video during (site visit) of the materials sampled. The participant is to produce the sampling and record-keeping documentation used in the construction industry that supports the testing of the materials accepted on the building site in the video in Part A.