STUDENT ASSESSMENT TASK 1

Knowledge check

CPCCBC5004A

Supervise and apply quality standards to the

selection of building and construction materials

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Student Assessment task 1 Knowledge Check

Unit Outcomes
This unit of competency specifies the outcomes required to supervise the systems through which materials are selected, acquired and
stored on site for building or construction work up to and including medium rise projects. It ensures the delivery to the site of materials
that meet contract specifications and service requirements for commercial projects.

To achieve the outcomes for this unit, knowledge of relevant building construction materials and technologies, environmental effects on
materials and testing procedures is required.

Delivery Method
This unit will be delivered using a blended approach. You will be required to attend classes as scheduled in your timetable, complete all
learning activities as set by your trainer and assessor and a range of self-directed learning tasks.

If at any stage, you are unable to complete any of the above activities you must contact your trainer/assessor immediately to make alter-
native arrangements.

Guided Online Learning Activities

All Guided Online Learning activities in part 1 of this booklet must be completed and submitted to your trainer/assessor to demonstrate
that you have completed the learning section of the material and understand the subject matter.

If you require further assistance with your learning tasks, please make a time with your trainer/assessor to discuss the topic in further
detail.

Assessment Materials
To complete these assessments, you will require access to:

• documentation that should normally be available in either a building or construction office

• relevant codes, standards and government regulations
• office equipment, including calculators, photocopiers and telephone systems
• computers with appropriate software to view 2-D CAD drawings, run costing programs and print copies
• a technical reference library with current publications on measurement, design, building construction and manufacturers'
product literature
• a suitable work area appropriate to the construction process

Assessment Summary
Once you have demonstrated to your trainer/assessor that you have the required skills and knowledge for the unit they will inform you
that you are ready to be assessed.

To gain competency in this unit you must accurately complete the following assessment tasks.

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Task Description Due Date

Assessment Task 1- Knowledge You are required to complete all questions to a satisfactorily level. As per training
check plan
Assessment Task 2A- Skills Test You are required to complete all questions on material properties to a satisfac- As per training
torily level. plan
Assessment Task 2B – Skills Test You are required to play out a role on an onsite building workplace scenario. As per training
This will require producing answers to real building questions requested during plan
daily operations.
Assessment Task 3 You are required to complete the matrix on the 10 nominated properties of As per training
Project Work building materials in a medium rise building plan

If you are unable to submit an assessment on or before the due date you must decide with your trainer/assessor for an extension and a
new submission date.

Assessment Results

At the completion of each assessment task your trainer/assessor will deem your work to be:
• S – Satisfactory. You have completed your assessment task adequately meeting all of requirements.
• NS – Not Satisfactory. You have not provided enough evidence to meet all aspects of the assessment task.

Once all assessment tasks have been submitted you will receive an overall result for this unit being:
• C – Competent. All the required assessments have received a result of ‘S’ meaning you have demonstrated that you can suc-
cessfully meet all the unit outcomes.
• NYC – Not Yet Competent. One or more of your assessment tasks have received a result of NS meaning that you have not met
the necessary requirements for that assessment.

Please refer to the student handbook for further information on re-assessment.

Reasonable Adjustments

An adjustment is any measure or action that you may require because of a disability, which has the effect of assisting you to access and
participate in education and training on the same basis as students without a disability. An adjustment is reasonable if it achieves this
purpose while considering factors such as the nature of your disability, your views, and the potential effect of the adjustment on yourself
and others, who might be affected, and the costs and benefits of making the adjustment.

We must maintain the academic integrity of a course and consider the requirements or components that are inherent or essential to its
nature when assessing whether an adjustment is reasonable. There may be more than one adjustment that is reasonable in a given set of
circumstances. We will make adjustments that are reasonable and that do not cause unjustifiable hardship to yourself and our organisa-
tion.

If at any time whilst you are undertaking the assessment and you require further clarification on the task or you believe you require an
assessment to be adjusted due to a disability or other impacting situations please speak to your trainer/assessor for further information or
possible options. During the assessment process your trainer/assessor can assist you with gaining understanding of the task, but they are
unable to provide you with the response or any answers

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Rules and Principles of Assessment

All assessment tasks have been designed to ensure that they meet all of the requirements of the unit you are undertaking. They have also
been designed to meet the rules and principles of assessments ensuring that all assessment tasks are:

• Fair
• Valid
• Flexible
• Reliable
• Authentic
• Sufficient
• Reliable

Assessment Conditions

The assessments for this unit must be conducted in quiet classroom or home study environment and/or simulated environment.

The assessments for this unit must be conducted in a safe environment for the safety of all students and trainers/assessors. Your train-
er/assessor will cease the assessment at any time that they believe it has become unsafe for yourself and/or others around you.

If the assessment is ceased due to safety reasons your trainer/assessor may require you to undergo further training or make further ad-
justments to the task and/or environment prior to providing you with the opportunity to be re-assessed.

Re-assessment
If you are unable to show competency in all of the required assessment tasks you trainer/assessor will inform you that you will need to
undertake the assessment task again.

Prior to undertaking the re-assessment process, you may be required to complete further learning activities to consolidate your skills and
knowledge. Once you can demonstrate to your trainer/assessor that you possess the required skills and knowledge they will inform you
that you are ready to be assessed again.

Please refer to your student handbook for further information on re-assessment.

Complaints and appeals

If you believe that you have been unfairly assessed and wish to appeal your trainer/assessor decision or have any complaints in regard to
your training or assessment results please refer to our complaints and appeals procedure located on our website for further information.

Plagiarism
All work submitted must be your own work and not taken from any other source. Any information utilised to assist you with your learning
activities or assessments must be correctly referenced and a bibliography attached.

If the work submitted is found to have been plagiarised it will be unable to be accepted as a form of evidence towards this unit of compe-
tency.

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Assessment Task 1 – Written Questions

1. List 5 desirable physical properties of concrete:

Answer:

1 Weather Resistance: The concrete has a resistance to wetting, heating, cooling.

2 Durability: Ability of concrete to resist deterioration caused by weathering, chemicals and abrasion.

3 Strength: Concrete is hard enough to hold itself together in any condition.

4 Erosion: Regardless of water flow, traffic, weight, etc. concrete holds up and doesn’t breaks down.

5 Workability: Concrete is easy to handle, place and finish.

2. What are 5 different types of external claddings used in residential and medium rise buildings?
Answer:
1 Brick Veneer

2 Scyon Cladding

3 FC sheeting
4 Colorbond sheets

5 Polystyrene panels

3. What Australian Standard and Part of the NCC covers the requirements for masonry work in residential and medium rise con-
struction?
Answer:
AS3700 Part 3.3.1

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4. What is the maximum spacing for engaged piers in single skin masonry?
Answer:
Support bearers at 1800 mm Maximum centers and Engaged 230x110 tied to the walls (according to bearer peir table)

5. What is the bricklayer installing in this photo?

Answer:
The bricklayer is installing Brick Veneer tie. Bricklayer is installing “Face of Wall”
steel which is used to hold non-structural skin of brick with structural frame of
timer.

6. List 5 advantages colorbond has as an external wall cladding:

Answer:
1 Easy to maintain

2 Long lasting

3 Durrable in extreme conditions

4 lightweight

5 Available in a different range of colours.

7. What would be the source of information for the dimensioning of a steel joist and bearer flooring system?
Answer:
NCC part 3.4.2.3 steel floor framing, AS4600 engineer calculations and/or the NASH specifications.

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8. Supply a description of pre-stressed concrete floor systems.

Answer:
Pre stressed concrete floor system is a method of overcoming concrete’s natural weakness. This type of floor system is used in high ten-
sile cables or rods construction.

9. What type of floor system is the photo below referring to and supply a description of the same?
Answer:
Posisttrut floor truss system This system includes a parallel top and
bottom chord with metal webbing. It is
generally engineer designed floor sys-
tem.

10. What type of timber flooring does the photo below represent and what is the most aesthetic nailing system to use with this
product?
Answer:
Tongue and Groove solid tim- A modern way of installing this system:
ber Flooring system “Secret Nail” technique where nails are
invisible, giving an aesthetic and stylish
look at the end of work.

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11. Referring to the AS1684.4 Timber Framing Code in your Document Addendum, TABLE 5.3 STRUCTURAL FLOORING—
MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE SPACING OF JOISTS, what is the maximum joist support spacing for 19mm select grade Australian
hardwood, end matched?
Answer:
The maximum joist support spacing for 19mm select grade Australian hardwood is 520mm.

12. Under building material properties, provide a description and example of the following 5 properties.
Answer:
Water Perme- Click or tap This is the capacity of a material to allow water to penetrate under pressure.
ability here to
enter text.

Fire resistance Click or tap This is the ability of a material to resist the high temperature without any deformation and substantial
here to loss of strength.
enter text.

Refractoriness Click or tap This is the capacity of material to withstand even under high temperature without melting or losing its
here to shpe.
enter text.

13. Provide a description of Compatibility regarding building materials.

Answer:
Compatibility of building material maybe be describes as existing or performing in harmonious, agreeable, or congenial combination with
other materials.

14. When considering the lifecycle methodology in assessing sustainability properties of building materials, what are the 5 relevant
life cycle stages considered?
Answer:
1 Mining and extraction

2 Maintenance

3 Demolition and recycling

4 On site construction and transport

5 Manufacturing

15. Provide an example of an extremely environmentally friendly building material.

Answer:
The exteme environment friendly material is Rammed Earth.

16. What are the advantages of Timbercrete over other external wall building system/ products?
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17. What is the 3 Step test in measuring the size tolerance in a batch of standard bricks?
Answer:
Step 1 Lay 20 bricks in line, joining end to end to each other.

Step 2 Measure the total or overall length

Step 3 Check against the calculated length of 20 X 230. Anything beyond/over that measurement is defective.

18. Referring to the 2015 Guide to Standards and Tolerances on your usb support documents, what is the standard viewing dis-
tance for inspecting surface finishes?
Answer:

1500mm

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19. List 4 applications of Australian Standards in reference to building materials and systems:
Answer:
1 Covers all features of building

2 Developed for only building industry.

3 Provides the guidelines, rules, specifications and technical help where required.

4 Are compulsory and they are referred in the NCC.

20. What does Australian Standard AS 1170.4-2007 refer to?

Answer:
Structural design Actions- Earthquake actions in Australia

21. What is the Australian Standard that refers to to the protection of structural steel against atmospheric corrosion using protec-
tive coatings?
Answer:
AS/NZ 2312: 2002

22. What is the relevance of structural engineering in contract plan documentation?

Answer:
It is covered under Part 2.1 in the NCC of Australia. As this is also a compliance level of NCC which describes that structural integrity
must be maintained. Moreover, it is also a backbone of any building construction.

23. Using the AS1684.4 Framing Code and Span tables attached in your usb support documents or student portal, refer to TABLE
A50 -LINTELS—LOWER STOREY OF TWO-STOREY LOADBEARING WALLS— UPPER FLOOR JOIST SPAN 4800 mm MAX and calcu-
late the lintel size required for a window opening size of 1800mm, where the roof is sheet metal with a truss span of 6000mm.
Provide the answer in F17 hardwood.
Answer:
2/120 x 45 F17

24. What is the obligation of a project manager towards OHS when ordering building materials for a site construction?
Answer:

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The product manager should be aware that he/she has an obligation to ensure that when materials are selected, they are ordered and
they are kept or maintened in a manner so as not cause any risk to any stakeholder during delivery and installation.

25. List 5 good procedures in the safe handling and storage of building materials at site:

Answer:

Create a safe lay down area, where materials can be kept

1

Always make sure there is a proper systematic system or procedure in place.

2

Always have somebody on site to supervise

3

Never unload defected material for the container or truck, always send it back to the original place or manufacturer
4

Nothing to be order or delivered until the site manager has created or made some loading space for it.
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26. Provide a description for the Australian standard for the design of foundation and slabs:
Answer:
Australian Standard: AS 2870, Residential slabs and footing provides design construction methods of foundation maintenance.

27. How can surface testing be applied to a building and construction site?

Answer:
Surface testing can be applied to provide an evidence of coats of paint on a surface or polyurethane coating on timber finishes.

28. Why is the slump test popular in measuring the workability of concrete at a building site?
Answer:

The slump test is popular because of the simplicity of the apparatus and the procedure or steps.

29. How does the rating of concrete in a Slump Test apply to the workability of the concrete?

Answer:

Slump Test It is measured in MM. Higher the slump in MM, the more is the moisture content, thus the more workable
concrete.

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30. In the testing of building materials, what does NDT refer to and provide a description?
Answer:

NDT NDT stands for non destructive testing. This referes to the physical properties of materials being tested
without actually destroying or damaging them .

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