Construction Engineering Seminar

Code:

EC5180

Acronym:

SCC

Instance: 2006/2007 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Building Division
Institution Responsible:	Faculty of Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LEC	36	Plano de estudos de transição para 2006/07	5	7	7	-
MIEC	32	Plano de estudos de transição para 2006/07	5	-	7	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To develop technician-professionals aptitudes, stimulating the research and treatment of information in the domain of the buildings.

Program

1. CONSTRUCTION SUSTAINABILITY (Resp.: Prof. Vítor Abrantes) a) Analysis of the existing methods of evaluation b) Development of appraisers (one) for application Portugal.

2. DIVERSE SUBJECTS INTEGRATED IN FOLLOWING THE AREAS (Resp.: Prof. João Porto):
a) Behavior of construction elements (comparative study of constructive solutions)
b) Behavior of buildings (thermal, acoustic, security against fire, etc.)
c) Monographic study of materials, elements or systems of construction
d) Economy and management of the construction
e) Quality and security in the construction

3. SHEETS OF SUPPORT To the QUALITY CONTROL, SECURITY and ENVIRONMENT (Resp.: Prof. Jose Amorim Faria)
Having for base example of control in the areas of the quality of construction, the security and the environment, and admitting a system of management of a company who respects the foreseen one in the norms of series ISO9000, ISO14000 and ISO18000 to carry through fiches of control diverse situations to consider. It is foreseen:
a) the study of the example sheets;
b) the study of the norms of series ISO9000, ISO14000 and ISO18000;
c) the preparation of new sheets;
d) application of the sheets to a concrete case of a workmanship in course.

4. CONSTRUCTION DURABILITY (Resp. Prof. Helena Corvacho)
For an item of construction (material, element, system) to the choice of the pupils it is proposed the collecting and the treatment of its behaviour in service and durability information, the work developing in the following form:
a) Exhausting characterization of the chosen construction item
b) Collecting of normative, regulating or others texts
c) Identification of the applicable requirements of performance
d) Inspection of buildings: photographic survey of pathologies associated to the element in study
e) Identification of the agents of more excellent degradation
f) Research of existing works on the item in study behaviour through the time - useful life reference
g) Listing of the influential factors in its useful life
h) Proposal of characterization matrix of the durability
i) Synthesis of recommendations for the prevention of the degradation - conception and maintenance.

5. BUILDING MAINTENANCE (Resp. Prof. Rui Calejo Rodrigues)
Redaction of a synthesis of knowledge on Management of Buildings in Service, based on collected bibliography and in thematic sessions issued by the thatcher or by selected guests.
Development of a "MANUAL OF USE" of an existing building structuralized in manual of operation and manual of maintenance connected with the respective Fiches Techniques of the Habitations (FTH).

Teaching methods and learning activities

After an exposition of methodologies on the part of the professors, the practical works are carried through with some autonomy. Each work is demands a presentation to the class and is debated by this.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Subject Classes	Participação presencial	56,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

No special demands

Calculation formula of final grade

Results of the evaluation of the obligatory report and of its oral presentation.

Examinations or Special Assignments

One report for groups of two students, in general

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

nothing previewed
new report and frequency needed

Classification improvement

nothing previewed
new report and frequency needed

Observations

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Estimated working time out of classes: 9 hours