Sustainable contruction using BIM
More than 50 international lecturers experts from the consortium of partner universities and companies
- Open to students that have completed three years of higher education in Civil Engineering or a
- related field
- A tailored mix of lectures, tutored group sessions, practical applications, and independent group
- works over a period of 4,5 MONTHS
- A group dedicated to International students
- Working language English
- Project teams, dedicated lectures, technical visits, access to research lab
- Assessment by projects, lab experiments, exams
- Successful project awarded with 30 ECTS credit points : International Full semester
General outline
Lecture plan
The Built environment - 4 ETCS
- Introduction to architecture, city planning and urban sociology – history and trends
- Urban facility management
- Transformation and adaptive re-use of existing buildings and districts
- Area networks (energy, water, waste and communications)
- Sustainable construction and the use of recycled materials
- Infrastructures maintenance and rehabilitation
Building design processes and methods - 5 ECTS
- Circular innovation in different economic sectors
- Lean Construction
- Building information modelling and management
- Project management in a BIM environment
- Building pathology, maintenance and retrofitting
- Research methods in civil engineering
Buildings A functional approach - 5 ECTS
- Spaces (function, comfort, accessibility, light, sound, …)
- Envelope (esthetics, energy, air, water, vapor, sound, …)
- Advanced technologies for plus energy buildings and communities
- Superstructures – why things don’t fall down and why sometimes they do
- Infrastructure and foundations
- Dealing with hazards (fire, earthquakes, flooding, ...)
Advanced structure design - 5 ECTS
- Intuitive analysis of complex building typologies
- Recycling, sustainable materials and wood-concrete composites
- Earth and biosourced construction
- Composite and timber structure for BIM design
- Numerical modelling and design of RC and masonry structures for seismic actions
- Prestressing for buildings
Integrated design project - 3 ECTS
- Functional analysis and user-oriented design approaches
- Research methods in civil engineering
- Social responsability and ethics
- Technical visits / Portfolio / English for the construction world
International Workshop - 8 ECTS
Optional Contest (Optional) - 6 ECTS