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.Microsoft Word - Assignment 1 2020.docx Building Infrastructure Audits- BLSV12020  Assessment One        Assignment 1- Building Infrastructure Audits 2 BLSV12020 Building Infrastructure Audits  Assessment item 1    Due Date  11:45pm AEST, 7 December 2020       Weight  30%  This assessment item relates to the following unit learning outcomes:    1. Discuss the difference between building inspections, audits and condition assessments.   2. Organise an inspection/audit/assessment from engagement to finalisation  3. Manage inspections of buildings subject of complaints and disputes    Grades- Question 1- 8 Marks    Question 2- 8 Marks    Question 3- 8 Marks    Presentation, spelling, grammar and references- 6 Marks    Total- 30 Marks    Question 1    It is your first day working for a small rural council as a building surveyor and building assets officer. You are now  in control of the maintenance/upgrade of 20 staff houses, 14 commercial buildings and the works depot.     Being the proactive person that you are, you have undertaken a search of the maintenance files for all of the  structures you are responsible for and found that all maintenance works are undertaken reactively only. No  proactive upgrade/renovation works have been undertaken to these structures too. There are no asset  management plans and the budget is exceeded each year. What a mess…    Write a memo to the General Manager explaining your findings and educate/encourage them of the benefits of  preventative proactive maintenance and upgrading of buildings. Your memo should detail the pitfalls of just  undertaking reactive maintenance, not having asset management plans, benefits of preventative maintenance  and upgrades of buildings. You should also provide a proposed action plan including implementation and review  timeframes.     Keep in mind, it’s your first day in the office, so be nice and professional in your memo. This is your chance to  show the GM that your appointment was a great decision.    Question 2    Following your time in the country, you have now accepted a job at a large city council where you supervise 10  building surveyors. On your first day in this office, you are approached by the Director and are advised that one of  your new building surveyors has certified a newly built awning which has just collapsed. The building surveyor  had assessed the awning during its original approval as a design and then during its construction at footing,  storm-water and then final stages. The homeowner is absolutely furious and is blaming the council.   Assignment 1- Building Infrastructure Audits 3   This is a delicate situation as your whole unit’s credibility could be on the line with this matter.     The Director has asked you to provide her with a proposed complaint management action plan for this issue. This  complaint management action plan needs to be provided to and approved by the director. As you are completely  new to the director she doesn’t trust you yet and this is your chance to demonstrate that you know what you are  doing.     Your complaint management plan is essentially an action plan. It should be at least 4 pages long, excluding title  pages, contents page, references page etc.  The complaint management plan should propose how you will  approach this situation in order to find out:  - What the building surveyor that certified the structure has done  - What the home owner/s have done   - What are the defects and why are they defects  - Possible ways to mediate the matter  - What documents/references/reports/certificates are needed  - What process should follow if nothing is found on site or all/some defects are proven?    Remember, it’s important to be professional and keep an open mind when placed in these situations. It’s  sometimes easy to jump to the conclusion that something has gone wrong, when it is possible that nothing is  wrong or the accuser is the cause of the issues.     Question 3    Checklists are important not only for the large jobs, but also for those smaller jobs we can sometimes be given.     You have recently been promoted from your traineeship/cadetship position. One of your new responsibilities is to  supervise and guide the new trainee/cadet. While you used to be the one following instructions, you are now in  the position to instruct the newbie.     Your manager has asked you to be in charge of inspecting all boundary fencing that surround residential sites  owned by the council in order to identify whether upgrades/replacement work is necessary. Each of these sites  have a single detached dwelling and detached garage on a standard residential block. Two of the houses have  swimming pools that adjoin the boundary fencing. Each of these sites have front, side and rear boundary fencing  with a small driveway gate.     You are much too busy to inspect fencing yourself, plus it’s the middle of summer. Why not use the trainee? They  can learn from the process, while you can benefit from developing your supervisory skills (and the air-conditioned  office).     The best way to ensure completeness and consistency of each fence and gate assessment is to develop a  checklist.     Assignment 1- Building Infrastructure Audits 4 Develop a one page checklist that enables the trainee to inspect, assess and report on the condition of the  fencing and gate. This checklist will then enable you to develop a spreadsheet documenting the condition levels,  so make sure all relevant information is detailed on the checklist like type of fencing, size, location etc.     The checklist should be clear and concise as the majority of the sites are located hours away from mobile phone  reception and to ensure you meet your managers expectations you want the trainee to complete the inspection on  a single visit so you can submit your report on time. Good luck!!       Assignment 1- Building Infrastructure Audits 5 Marking Criteria  Criteria Fail Pass Credit Distinction High Distinction

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Assignment 1- Building Infrastructure Audits
Student Name 
Student ID 
Answer: 1 
Preventative proactive maintenance and upgrading of buildings
To:  General Manager, 
From:  Student Name (write Name) 
Date: 12/02/2020
Subject: To conduct preventative proactive maintenance and upgrading of building 
	
As building surveyor, I observe that the staff houses and commercial buildings need maintenance and renovation work for all constructed buildings. These building are too old and there are no building maintenance work has been done from last five year. From the visual survey and last inspection report, it observes that it is high time to take action and perform maintenance operation for building as soon as possible. We still doing detail inspection and building surveying. From that, we have conduct and find important aspect that needs to consider for ensure safe residency and healthy indoor environment. 
Initially, it observes that the building key elements such as foundation, wall, roof, beam structures are considerable weaken, broken and not in position to stay in staff building for long time. Therefore, it is require doing maintenance for the existing staff for next upcoming years.  the building basic structure such as beam and column has been came out strong concrete layer, therefore, it is require to do maintenance and prepare fire-resistance layer over the wall. The existing building construction has not considered any safety aspects in terms of fire safety, emergency exit plan etc.  It is require re-designing and implementing fire-safety plan and escaping plan Goti, A.et.al.(2018). 
There is no surveillance at building gate and essential areas of building campus. It is recommended installing CCTV camera for 24x7 days surveillance.  The existing drainage system is not effective and allows wasting more water than required. It is recommend doing maintenance and assembling up gradation of drainage system and allows delivering waste water directly to gutter-line.  
The building fabrics were construct by referring old standard, there were changes in current building construction standard.  In this case, it is require doing maintenance and upgrading building fabric, fixtures, fitting, drainage system and plumbing as well. 
The existing mechanical ventilation system is not work efficiently, therefore it is recommend replacing or repairing existing mechanical ventilation and air conditioning system.   Subsequently,  the building equipments such as electrical distribution system, emergency generator, building management, fire service system, public area such as garden, life  etc. are require to replace (if not working) or repair as per  suitable condition.  additionally, it is recommend to install the door lock and burglar alarm system, installation or maintenance of auto-door system, maintenance of car-parking such as allocate new  car-maintenance equipments etc. lastly,  it is recommend to place new architecture and design which make sense and provide aesthetic appearance like new building constructed (Kelsey, J. and Pearson, D., 2011). 
As mentioned above, the building maintenance is done based on reactive maintenance procedure, the following are provides advantages of proactive maintenance. 
a. The maintenance perceived considerable economic cost; the lower cost is assuming acceptable approach from authority. 
b. in order to perform maintenance strategy, it is require considerable less manpower. 
c. Reduce overall maintenance cost such as fixes, temporary repairs are completed to the cut down any ongoing maintenance cost and use when it require. 
Answer: 2 
- What the building surveyor that certified the structure has done: 
As per given situation, the building owner is furious from the council that means,

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