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 Architecture
   
   
   
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: ARCH1171.
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

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Environment: Natural and artificial lighting. Quantitative and qualitative aspects of lighting design. Electric light sources, light control and prediction methods. Structures: Structural steel design. Material characteristics, analysis and optimisation of structural systems and elements in steel. Design and behaviour of members in bending, shear and axial loading. Load path and action/effect diagrams - the use of to Multiframe. Strength and deflection. An introduction to the structural design of masonry. Codes of practice and Australian Standards. Construction: Steel in construction: framing, wall and roof cladding, basic detailing. Introduction to the Building Code of Australia [BCA]. Footing systems for steel and concrete framed buildings. Basements and retaining walls. Concrete frame, wall, floor and roof systems for low to medium scale buildings.

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