Sound is a constant throughout our lives - involving, informing and profoundly shaping our experience of communication, entertainment and architectural spaces. This degree is unique and challenging, giving students a solid foundation in the design, measurement and theory of audio and acoustics. From this foundation students can choose to specialise in their area of interest including acoustics, audio systems and audio production.
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Building Services is a degree aimed at giving a broad knowledge of all areas of this discipline. This includes all of the environmental systems that make a building usable – such as ventilation, air conditioning and heating, and lighting. It also embraces the supply and distribution of water electricity and communications; the provision of fire detection and fighting equipment; lifts and escalators – essential, but largely unseen.
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Lighting design concerns the creation of interior and exterior spaces for work and pleasure. It is a vital part of architecture and interior design.
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Sustainable design is concerned with both the process and outcomes of creating buildings to meet needs of a world that is growing increasingly conscious of the large impacts made by buildings on the worlds ecological systems and on human kind. As the world shifts to a more sustainable form of development in the coming millennium the task facing designers is uniquely challenging and different from previous eras.
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Every organisation uses buildings of some sort and their occupation requires recurrent resources for rent, rates, cleaning, energy, water, security, etc, amounting in time to more than the capital cost of creating the buildings in the first place. Facility Managers look after the Infrastructure of Business and have the responsibility of ensuring that their employers’ premises assist them in fulfilling their core business objectives, retain their capital value through appropriate maintenance, as well as obtaining value from their day-to-day operating costs.
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The Heritage Conservation Programs primary aim is to develop skills in the care and conservation of traditional and modern buildings, the latter a growing concern of contemporary conservation practice.
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The Interaction Design and Electronic Arts (IDEA) program is the first of its kind in Australia to prepare students in the skills and knowledge of interaction possibilities offered by modern computing technologies.
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The Urban and Regional Planning program teaches strong foundations in urban and regional planning, with the opportunity for students to develop more specialised knowledge in emergent areas, such as environmental design, planning for better structured cities, and sustainable management.
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Cities are the most complex of human inventions and their design rests on knowledge that spans from philosophy and aesthetics to ecology and the technologies of waste disposal. They are also intensely cultural. In recent times, the professions of architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning have been the most conspicuous contributors to the shaping of cities. Urban design is at the nexus between these professions. The ability to perform in the field rest on additional layers of knowledge and understanding of the built form in its cultural and ecological complexities at urban scales of resolution.
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Sound is a constant throughout our lives - involving, informing and profoundly shaping our experience of communication, entertainment and architectural spaces. This degree is unique and challenging, giving students a solid foundation in the design, measurement and theory of audio and acoustics. From this foundation students can choose to specialise in their area of interest including acoustics, audio systems and audio production.
more...