Task 3 - The Built Environment: Designing a Structure Wednesday , 28 July 2004 print

Professional Associations and useful contacts

Internet Site

Address

Building Designers' Association of Queensland (BDAQ)

http://www.bdaq.com.au/

Building Services Authority Queensland

http://www.bsa.qld.gov.au/

QBuild: Queensland Government Department of Public Works

http://www.qbuild.qld.gov.au/qbuildintro.html

Queensland Master Builders Association

http://www.qmba.asn.au/

Identifying clients and their needs - school, family and community

Internet Site

Address

Brisbane City Council

http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/

Global engineering: Design brief

http://www.uwlax.edu/globalengineer/draft/brief/

Marcoola Beach Progress Association

http://www.angelfire.com/sc/marcoola

Structures

http://www.yesmag.ca/focus/structures/structures.html

Examining environment, aesthetic and other aspects of proposed structure

Internet Site

Address

Enertia Building Systems

http://www.enertia.com/

Environmentally responsible house requires thoughtful choices

http://www.oikos.com/esb/40/ecohouse.html

Green Roads: Building environmentally friendly, low maintenance rural roads through local participation

http://www.mtnforum.org/resources/library/klatf00a.htm

Richmond Valley Council planning reports

http://www.richmondvalley.nsw.gov.au/planning/

SmartGlass solution finder

http://www.smartglass.co.za/solutionfinder.asp

Estimation of materials, quantity and costs

Internet Site

Address

Building-Cost.net- free residential building cost calculator

http://www.building-cost.net/

Crafers Building Design

http://jeff_yablon.tripod.com/crafersbuildingdesign/

CSIRO Built Environment: Online Brochures

http://www.dbce.csiro.au/brochures/

Preparation of a design brief for a particular structure- drawing and modelling 

Internet Site

Address

How to use a design brief

http://www.cs.jmu.edu/common/projects/CISAT 0EP/HTML/howtouse.htm

Sixth grade curriculum

http://teched.vt.edu/ElectronicPortfolios/ReedP.ep/HTML/sixthgradecurr.html

The Technology course advice professional development support kit

http://www.sofweb.vic.edu/pd/curric/tech/pdf/Techca_.pdf.773k

The Toothbrush design challenge

http://www.curricstudies.educ.ubc.ca/programs/oldTSED/Resources/Briefs/Tooth/tooth.html

What's designing?

http://www.moe.edu.sg/schools/tkgs/D&T/designing.htm