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Unit of Study FORS2003 - Forest Operations (2022)

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  • Enrolment information

    There will be a 3-day compulsory residential for all students (online and On-campus) that will be held on the Lismore campus. Please refer to http://scu.edu.au/timetables for further information on timetables.

Unit description

Introduces students to project management skills and forest operations. These include road construction, runoff and erosion control, bridge design, forest management and harvesting operations, machinery design, legal matters, and budgeting.

Unit content

Introduction to forest operations and goals of operations management
Project planning tools; managing time, money and people
Understanding the roles standards, codes, best practice and legislation
Contracts and tenders
Design goals; forest products, costs and impact
Compartment design; roads, bridges, and hydrology
Wood production operations in native forests
Wood production operations in plantation forests
Operations relating to provision of recreational services
Operations relating to provision of forest conservation services

Availabilities

2022 unit offering information will be available in November 2021

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

demonstrate skills in project management including stakeholder identification and consultation; preparation of project plans including milestones and work schedules; preparation of budgets and expenditure review; contingency plans

exhibit knowledge of and skills in business management principles; legislative compliance and contracts

demonstrate skill in the design and conduct of mechanised forest operations including; site preparation and planting; pruning, thinning and harvesting

demonstrate knowledge of the principle motivations that underpin machinery design including maximising forest product value, optimising costs of production and minimising landscape impacts

demonstrate skills in the design of road transport infrastructure including pavements, runoff control infrastructure and water course crossings.