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Assignment Task

 

Part 1: Practical Tasks
Background
To support the role of the builder in being able to produce construction industry documentation, students have access to a professional intranet that provides a simulated building company, RB Holdings. RB Holdings functions as a simulated workplace environment where project-based assessments can be undertaken using industry standard documentation, plans, activities, responsibilities and procedures. The RB Holdings business structure allows simulation of work environments such as, but not limited to, design offices, site offices and construction sites. RB Holdings provides students with relevant documentation that is to industry standard that allows students to experience a professional simulation of a construction office environment. RB Holdings is a simulated organisation that has been created purely for educational purposes. RB Holdings materials are accessed via a secure website that is copyright of  TAFE NSW.
RB Holdings has an organisational policy that requires you, as one of its staff members, to produce material and labour estimates no later than 5 working days from receiving the request from your manager. The information calculated must be to the quality standards required by RB Holdings, that is, accurate quantity take-off and calculations in accordance with “Standard Method of Measurements”. Calculations, costings and communications must be created in accordance with standard RB Holdings policies and procedures. 

  • You will need to calculate the following costs based on the information provided in this assessment event.
  • You are to demonstrate your competence at task management skills by developing your own spreadsheet from a costing software program of your choice to calculate the materials and labour requirements
  • To establish your task management skills, YOU MAY NOT use any pre-prepared spreadsheets previously provided.

 

The costing software program method you choose to use will need to allow you to clearly provide the following items:
•    Areas to clearly show calculation workings for each trade
•    Description of the items being calculated
•    Logical ordering of trade costs with sub totals and total
•    A final price tally that enables the inclusion of overheads, margins and GST.
Some costs have been provided due to the nature of the question being asked. 

Scenario:
Mr and Mrs Brown have recently met with a Building Design consultant to initiate the design and costing stage for an alteration and addition to their existing house at 1 Lake Road Toronto NSW. 
You are employed by RB Holdings who have been engaged by their clients, Mr and Mrs Brown, to provide preliminary estimations of products identified by the designer, as a lead up to finalising their project budget.
Development approval is pending from Lake Macquarie City Council, and a set of working plans and specifications, has been drafted for the client. These will need further amendments dependant on the development approval requirements, and the outcomes of your work in this assessment. 
You will be analysing Mr and Mrs Brown’s Alterations and Additions 
to identify the items defined in the assessment tasks for the following trade areas:
•    Joists for first floor addition 
•    External Wall cladding for first floor addition 
•    Floor Covering for the first-floor addition
•    Internal Lining for the first-floor addition
•    Painting the first-floor addition.


Task 1.1 – Calculate quantities of floor joists for first floor additions
Considering the Mr and Mrs Brown’s Alterations and Additions 
you are required to calculate the quantities required for the floor joists for the first-floor additions. The quantities are to be expressed in an accepted industry format. 

Task 1.2
Using the following price guide calculate the total cost of the timber:
•    HJ300 ‘HyJoist’ at $25.00 per metre.

Task 1.3

You are required to conduct research and access the ‘Fair Work Building and Construction General on Site Award’ and calculate the cost of two Level 3 Carpenters on site for 8 hrs.

 


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