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Unit Code: 641

Sustainable Physical Infrastructure

  • Unit Duration:

    One semester

  • Credit Points:
    1
Sustainable infrastructure is defined for this Unit as the designing, building, operating, maintaining, rehabilitating, and decommissioning of infrastructure structural elements over their life cycles. Definitions may vary both nationally and internationally. Infrastructure includes such as transport, public health, water, sewage treatment, energy, and telecommunication that are critical to the sustainability of communities. The Unit provides a broad treatment of the many facets of sustainable infrastructure including the role of asset management, integrated design, smart structures, sensing technologies, performance monitoring, the impact of changing environments and the life-cycle approach to infrastructure planning and management. Research skills will be developed through extensive literature surveys and communication skills evaluated though a Case Study.

Unit Topics

  • Topic 1

    Introduction to Sustainable Infrastructure and Asset Management

  • Topic 2

    Planning for Sustainable Infrastructure

  • Topic 3

    Whole of Life Frameworks and Sustainable Infrastructure

  • Topic 4

    Applications of Sensors for Physical Asset Performance Monitoring

  • Topic 5

    Smart Sustainable Infrastructure

  • Topic 6

    Integrated engineering design and sustainable physical infrastructure

  • Topic 7

    The impact of changing environment on physical infrastructure sustainability

  • Topic 8

    Resilient physical infrastructure systems

Prerequisites and Corequisites

  • Project Management
    Master and Graduate Certificate
    Prerequisites 541 Project Management Elements
    Corequisites Nil
  • Asset Management
    Graduate Certificate
    Prerequisites: 540 Asset Management Principles
    640 Economics of Financial Management
    Corequisites: Nil

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