Reference no: EM133183451

Classify Buildings

Secure Access to Project Plans

This task requires you to secure project plans in your workplace of buildings that have not yet been built. Specifically, you are required to:
• Secure a copy of a project plan of a class 2, 3, or 9 building that has not yet been built
• Secure a copy of a project plan of a class 5, 6, 7, or 8 building that has not yet been built

Steps to take:

1. Locate the Equipment and Program Confirmation form provided for you on the following pages.
The Equipment and Program Confirmation form will be used to confirm the equipment and programs you used in accessing and extracting information from the project plans.

Review the instructions here and in the Equipment and Program Confirmation form with your supervisor before starting so you can prepare for the tasks.

2. Seek assistance from your supervisor to secure copies of the following:
i. The project plan of a Class 2, 3, or 9 building that has not yet been built.
The project plan must have been created during the year the latest building codes have been approved or later.
Class 2 buildings include buildings containing two or more sole-occupancy units.
Class 3 buildings include residential buildings providing long-term or transient accommodation for a number of unrelated persons, including the following:
• A boarding house, guest house, hostel, lodging house or backpacker accommodation.
• A residential part of a hotel or motel.
• A residential part of a school.
• Accommodation for the aged, children, or people with disability.
• A residential part of a health-care building which accommodates members of staff.
• A residential part of a detention centre.

• A residential care building. Class 9 buildings include:
a. A health-care building including any parts of the building set aside as laboratories, and includes a healthcare building used as a residential care building.
b. An assembly building including a trade workshop or laboratory in a primary or secondary school
c. A residential care building.
ii. The project plan of a Class 5, 6, 7, or 8 building that has not yet been built.
The project plan must have been created during the year the latest building codes have been approved or later.
Class 5 buildings include office buildings used for professional or commercial purposes.
Class 6 buildings include shops or other buildings used for the sale of goods by retail or the supply of services direct to the public, including-
• an eating room, café, restaurant, milk or soft-drink bar; or
• a dining room, bar area that is not an assembly building, shop or kiosk part of a hotel or motel; or
• a hairdresser's or barber's shop, public laundry, or undertaker's
establishment; or
• a market or sale room, showroom, or service station. Class 7 buildings include:
a. A carpark
b. A building that is used for storage, or display of goods or produce for sale by wholesale.
Class 8 buildings include process-type buildings that include the following:
• A laboratory.
• A building in which the production, assembling, altering, repairing, packing, finishing, or cleaning of goods or produce for sale takes place.
The project plan for the Class 2, 3, or 9 building must be for a one-storey building, and the project plan for the Class 5, 6, 7, or 8 building must be for a two-storey building.

Each project plan must include the following information:
i. At least one construction drawing
ii. Information on the following building properties:
a. Energy efficiency
b. Services and equipment
c. Fire protection
d. Health and amenity
e. Structure
f. Access and egress
g. Ancillary provisions
Information must include at least one of each of the following:
a. Construction method used
b. Materials used for any of the following building components:
• Walls
• Columns
• Beams
• Floors
• Roof
• Ceilings
c. Products used
iii. Other specifications common in building project plans such as floor area, orientation, number of storeys, etc.
When securing copies of the project plans, you must use the following:
i. Equipment to access information from project plans (e.g. desktop computer, laptop computer, smartphone), and
ii. At least two programs to extract information from project plans (either for computers or smartphones) to access and extract information from the project plans.
The project plans that you have secured copies of will be used in future tasks.

3. Complete the Equipment and Program Confirmation form by answering the following questions:

i. What equipment did you use to access the Class 2, 3, or 9 project plan?
ii. What program did you use to extract information from the Class 2, 3, or 9 project plan?
iii. What equipment did you use to access the Class 5, 6, 7, or 8 project plan?
iv. What program did you use to extract information from the Class 5, 6, 7, or 8 project plan?

4. Have your supervisor review your completed Equipment and Program Confirmation form. Your supervisor must also complete and sign the Supervisor Declaration at the end of the form. Their signature must be handwritten.