Week 7: Water sourcing and the specialist handover
What a roof delivers month by month — and the week the measured year comes back.
Two things happen this week. Assignment 1 is submitted — the measurement programme you have been assembling since week 1. Teaching may preview how to read the findings earlier in the week, but the fictional handover follows Friday's submission: the story jumps twelve months and the specialist team hands back Release B, the analysed findings of a measurement year at your home, identical for every student who took that home, whatever their programme said. From here your figures are findings rather than estimates. The teaching content is water supply: the enHealth runoff formula applied month by month, a capped bore where the home has one, and the supply curve every later water decision is built on. Alice Springs leads, because it is the hardest site there is for a roof. Annual totals are how people end up with a tank that runs dry in September.
This week
- Lecture, 19 April 2027
- What a roof can actually deliverWeek 7 — the enHealth runoff formula, a capped bore, and the month-by-month supply curve that every later water decision is built on
- Tutorial, 22 April 2027
- The supply curve, and submitting Assignment 1Week 7 tutorial — compute monthly roof yield from the enHealth formula, lay it against week 2's demand, and do the last pass on the measurement programme
- Assessed, due 23 April 2027
- Year-long Measurement Programme20 % of the course mark. Assignment 1 — a twelve-month plan for finding out what nobody yet knows about your client's home, with every instrument tied to the decision it informs and the whole thing costed against the investigation allowance
- Worked example
- Alice SpringsThe Nguyens' home leads this week, because its climate makes this subsystem hard. All five homes are compared on the lecture page.
What you leave with
A monthly supply curve laid over week 2's demand curve, on the same axis and in the same units.
You have finished the tutorial when all of this is true, and you can tell without asking anyone:
- your spreadsheet reproduces the enHealth worked example exactly before you use it on your own site
- runoff is computed per month, not from the annual rainfall total
- first-flush volume is deducted and its sizing rule is named
- your supply and demand curves are on the same axis, in kilolitres
- your measurement register has been through the two cross-checks and totals inside the allowance
Assignment milestone
Assignment 1, the year-long measurement programme (20 %), is due 5 pm Friday. Teaching may preview how to read the findings earlier, but the fictional specialist handover follows submission.
Where this sits
Assignment 1 goes in, and the story jumps twelve fictional months. The specialist team hands back what a measurement year at your home found (Release B), and from here on your numbers come from those findings rather than from a scoping estimate.
Expected effort
About 8 hours this week: 2 h lecture and notes, 2 h tutorial, 1 h preparation and quiz, 2 h assignment 1, 1 h assignment 2. The assignment hours go into: Both cross-checks, final costing, submission; then Findings read; the baseline written down.
A planning guide from the semester planner, not a requirement and not a measurement of anyone. Tutorial submission sits inside the tutorial hours and the quiz inside preparation; neither is counted twice.