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Establish quality requirements, manage, and monitor the installation of
subdivision infrastructure
Level
6
Credits
18
Purpose
This unit standard is for people who are working, or who intend to work, in
the surveying industry, as a survey technician.
People credited with this unit standard are able, for subdivision infrastructure
installation, to: evaluate resource consents, subdivision designs, and tender
documents for requirements; establish responsibilities and monitoring
requirements; and manage quality assurance and monitor performance.
Subfield
Surveying
Domain
Subdivisional Design
Status
Registered
Status date
25 February 2008
Date version published
25 February 2008
Planned review date
31 December 2012
Entry information
Open.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and
industry.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Infrastructure ITO
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0101
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
1
The following legislation and documentation must be complied with:
Land Drainage Act 1908;
Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992;
Resource Management Act 1991;
NZS 3910:2003 Conditions of contract for building and civil engineering construction;
NZS 4404:2004 Land development and subdivision engineering;
SNZ HB 44:2001 Subdivision for people and the environment (Standards New
Zealand Handbook);
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SNZ/PAS 4509:2003 New Zealand Fire Service Fire Fighting Water Supplies Code of
Practice; available at http://www.standards.co.nz;
Code of Practice for Temporary Traffic Management in New Zealand (CoPTTM)
available from Transit New Zealand at http://www.transit.govt.nz;
catchment management plans;
regional and district plans;
territorial authority rules and standards for subdivisions;
water utility standards;
client’s requirements.
2
Evidence for this unit standard must comprise evaluating, managing, and monitoring
the implementation of a plan for an urban or rural subdivision of four to ten lots with a
serviced carriageway.
3
Definitions
Subdivision infrastructure refers to utility services, carriageways, and accessways in
a subdivision;
Workplace procedures refer to documented procedures specific to an enterprise
which set out the quality management requirements for the business practice and
activities of that enterprise.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Evaluate resource consents, subdivision designs, and tender documents for subdivision
infrastructure installation requirements.
Performance criteria
1.1
Consents and designs are evaluated to establish a critical path for the key
construction elements for subdivision infrastructure installation in accordance
with workplace procedures.
1.2
Construction details are evaluated to ensure they meet local authority standards
in accordance with workplace procedures.
1.3
Designs and construction specifications are evaluated to determine
infrastructure requirements in accordance with workplace procedures.
1.4
Designs and tender documents are evaluated in relation to workflow and for
compliance with territorial authority requirements and statutory obligations.
Range
obligations include – site safety, temporary traffic management.
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Element 2
Establish responsibilities and monitoring requirements for subdivision infrastructure
installation.
Performance criteria
2.1
Responsibilities for subdivision infrastructure installation are established in
accordance with workplace procedures and client’s requirements.
Range
2.2
Monitoring requirements for standard aspects of subdivision infrastructure
installation are established and recorded in accordance with workplace
procedures.
Range
2.3
responsibilities for – communication with client, project
instructions, specifications, drawings, quality assurance plans,
inspections, delegation.
standard aspects include but are not limited to – site safety,
ground conditions, weather conditions, maintenance of geodetic
survey marks, temporary traffic management, public safety.
Monitoring requirements relating to engineering aspects of resource consents
are established in accordance with the resource consent conditions NZS 3910
and NZS 4404 or territorial authority quality assurance management
requirements.
Range
key tasks, inspection procedures, testing.
Element 3
Manage quality assurance and monitor performance for subdivision infrastructure
installation.
Performance criteria
3.1
Management ensures that the quality assurance system for monitoring
compliance is implemented in accordance with workplace procedures.
Range
system includes but is not limited to – site records, inspection
documentation, progress reporting, hierarchy of responsibilities
and authority, contact details, progress meetings.
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3.2
Management ensures that quality assurance relating to road installation is
implemented and performance is monitored in accordance with workplace
procedures.
Range
3.3
Management ensures that quality assurance relating to services installation is
implemented in accordance with workplace procedures.
Range
3.4
documentation includes but is not limited to – measurements,
sampling, testing, target comparisons, as-built records.
Management ensures that progress relating to subdivision infrastructure
installation is communicated to client in accordance with workplace procedures
and client’s requirements.
Range
3.6
services – electricity, gas, telecommunications, domestic water
supply, stormwater, wastewater;
electricity includes – power pole location, street light location;
gas includes – pipe type, pipe diameter, pipe depth, pipe location,
backfill, lateral end identification;
telecommunications includes – cable location, cable conduit;
domestic water supply includes – pipe type, pipe diameter, pipe
depth, pipe location, backfill, lateral end identification;
stormwater includes – pipe type, pipe diameter, pipe depth, pipe
location, backfill, lateral end identification, sump design, sump
location, grate design, culvert type;
wastewater includes – pipe type, pipe diameter, pipe depth, pipe
location, backfill, connections, access chamber.
Management ensures that quality assurance documentation is completed and
filed throughout the duration of subdivision infrastructure installation in
accordance with workplace procedures and territorial authority requirements.
Range
3.5
includes – subgrade testing, carriageway width, crossfall,
pavement construction, final inspection;
may include but is not limited to – road layout, basecourse depth,
basecourse material, elevation, kerb and channel, pavement
depth, pavement design, pavement surface, parking, property
entrances, footpath width, footpath depth, footpath surface finish.
progress reports, daily job records for quality assurance, project
debrief, final report, recommendations, review.
Performance relating to environmental protection is monitored in accordance
with workplace procedures.
Range
requirements under – Resource Management Act, district plan,
resource consents, environmental impact assessment.
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3.7
Performance relating to site requirements is monitored in accordance with
workplace procedures.
Range
requirements include but are not limited to – safety, access, site
traffic, drainage, network utilities.
Please note
Providers must be accredited by NZQA, or an inter-institutional body with delegated
authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from assessment against
unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by NZQA before they can register
credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards
must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations
wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for
tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact Infrastructure ITO askus@infratrain.co.nz if you wish to suggest changes to
the content of this unit standard.
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