ABPL90312 Cost Management Assignment 01 Brief 2025 | UoM

ABPL90312 Instructions

• This is a group work (maximum of 2 students in a group).
• The maximum mark obtainable for Assignment 1 is 25% (Part A: 15% and Part B: 10%).
• Present your answers on a dimension paper. You can use a pen or a pencil throughout, and it must be legible if you use a pencil. Scan the dim paper and combine it into a single PDF file for submission. Alternatively, you can work on the digital dimension paper.
• List the names and student numbers of all members of the group on a plain paper cover sheet. All group members must sign the work submitted. In your submission, attach a diary of meetings of the group, including those present, what was discussed, allocation of tasks and progress to date. The submission should also indicate the contribution of each member of the group. All members of the group will score equal marks unless there is a report of a lack of participation by any member of the group.
• The assignment and cover sheet should be scanned and submitted via LMS on the due date.

Part A: Masonry

Task 1

Take off the quantities for Masonry work under the ANZSMM. Use the following: 

• The set of drawings is provided.
• Section view of the window sill, head, and jamb details.
• The specification notes are below. 

NOTE: If there are discrepancies between the specifications and the drawings, the specifications shall take precedence over the drawings, except where otherwise indicated AND shall be reasonable. Nevertheless, you are expected to make reasonable assumptions where necessary. State the assumptions. 

Specification Notes: Brickwork

General: All workmanship and materials shall be under AS 3700 section 8.

Bricks: Exposed external brick walls shall be built with face bricks throughout -Austral Brick Metallix (Colour: Platinum). All other brickwork to be built with common bricks. All brickwork shall be well articulated by the provision of full height joints under the BCA and the Cement and Concrete Association T.N. 61

Block: Blocks shall be 140mm / 190mm hollow concrete block work wall in stretcher bond 

Brick Veneer: Brick veneer shall be 110 mm bricks in stretcher bond externally, and 90 x 45 timber studs internally with 40 mm cavity. 
Bond and Mortar: Mortar should be mixed in the following proportion. Above Damp Course: 1 cement, 1 lime, 6 sand by volume (1:1:6) 

Below Damp Course: 1 cement, 0.25 lime, 3 sand by volume (1:1/4 :3) 

Joints: Joints in face brickwork shall be ironed. 

Panels: Panels shall be 75mm thick Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (AAC) Hebel lightweight Power Panel XL, size 600mm X 2400mm, single mesh, fixed externally with relevant accessories by manufacturer's instructions and complying with AS 5146 (parts 1-3). 

Window Sills: Build window sills in snapped header course face bricks and set to weather, laid in cement mortar (1:5). Note: "The architect didn't include window sills in the drawings, but the client wants them. Only brick sills will be added to ground-level windows." 

Wall Ties: Provide 6mm diameter. stainless steel Abbey or approved equivalent as wall ties spaced at 450mm centres (max.) Each way. 

Brick lintels: Provide hog-dip galvanised mild steel (MS) flat bars and angle lintels to support masonry over openings. These should have their ends 3 bearing 100mm min. Lintels are to comply with the following Table:

Windows Flashing: 0.5mm thick bitumen-coated aluminium strip as flashing in the following: 

• Under sills: Sill flashing to all windows fixed behind window sill, turned down 3 courses across cavity and taking into full width of outer skin.
• Over lintels: Head flashing to all windows extending 150m on each side of the opening. Full width of outer leaf immediately above the lintel, continuous across cavity, 50mm into the inner leaf two courses above.
• Jamb flashing to windows built as directed.

Damp Proof Courses (DPC): to AS3700, 0.5mm thk bitumen-coated aluminium strip. Provide a continuous membrane for the full length of the walls. Lap full width of angles and intersections with a max of 2 vertical courses per step in the following location: 

• Outer wall skin of cavity walls: minimum 2 courses above finished ground level. 

Weep Holes: Weep holes commence on the DPC/flashing at the bottom of the cavity. It is placed 1200mm max. apart generally, in the form of open perpends to external leaves of cavity walls. 

Cleaning Down: Clean all face brickwork with hydrochloric acid solution and wash off with clean water to remove mortar smears, stains, discolouration, and the like. Cleaning of masonry shall be carried out before the installation of roof cladding, fascia and guttering. 

ABPL90312 Submission Requirement

Your submission should contain: 

• A university cover sheet.
• A title page as the very first page with a job title and reference number.
• A trade summary (even if it is one trade).
• Take off list (or otherwise known as the shopping list).
• A list of assumptions that you have made for taking off. 
• A list of contributions of each member of the group (applies to group assignment ONLY). 
• Dimension paper - Enter all taking-off into dimension paper, including squaring (total) of dimensions and any adjustments of openings where 
  necessary. Indicate the ANZSMM clauses applied in the taking off of each item measured.