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Course Model

• 2nd Cycle Joint Masters Course, 2 years (4 semesters), 120 ECTS.
• Involved European Higher Education Institutions (HEI):
• FEUP Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Portugal (https://sigarra.up.pt/feup/pt/web_page.inicial);
• ETSICCP Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, UC Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain (http://web.unican.es/centros/caminos);
• BAU Fachbereich Bauwesen, THM Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Giessen, Germany (https://www.thm.de/bau/);
• First edition will begin in the academic year 2022/2023 (1^st semester in FEUP);
• All course will be taught in English.

Background

The background of this course lies in the MSc in European Construction Engineering (MSECE) that has run for more than 20 years during which a deep and valuable partnership has developed between a wide range of European HEI – from Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Denmark - providing remarkable and invaluable contacts, knowledge exchange and partnership between teachers and students alike.

Among the current partners, FEUP (Portugal), Universidad de Cantabria (Spain) and THM Giessen (Germany), have decided to develop a new course, making good use of the existing cooperation and expertise among them and, on the other hand, developing a framework for the course’s curricula that includes new and updated subjects and provides a larger transversal/European approach for issues pertaining to the Construction Industry.

In the Construction Industry, although always with a large weight of domestic business, its larger and more prestigious companies have, for long, included an important slice of their business in non-European countries. The projects developed in many of these target countries rely on know-how and expertise brought by those companies which are faced, often, by some difficulty in finding local specialist collaborators with enough knowledge and skills that would enable them to understand the scope and innovation of the technical approaches to be implemented, and be an efficient bridge between the contracting company and the local manpower and services suppliers.

For this purpose, three European HEI have collaborated - FEUP (Portugal), Universidad de Cantabria (Spain) and THM Giessen (Germany) – and developed a framework for the course’s curricula with relevant subjects under the present Sustainability concerns and providing a large transversal/European approach for these issues as pertaining to the Construction Industry.

Objetivos

General Objectives for the Course

The attained of final products in the Construction Industry business area (buildings, infrastructures) requires the linking of a wide number of different professional expertise and environments, each with their own specific technical approaches and constraints, as well as different work languages. The implementation of sustainable concepts and solutions, through all the production cycle, requires a comprehensive and transversally spanning knowledge of the various issues at hand, as well as the capability to use management, development and control tools that may bring the several inputs into play in proper time and in adequate detail, so that the final output may be the best possible sum of each team member’s contribution.

Therefore, the students enrolling this course are expected to attain the following outcomes in four areas:

• SS Sustainable Strategies – to be acquainted and understand the several concepts and approaches towards the fulfilment the SDG in CI, including the use of existing tools for the assessment of performance under sustainability;
• SD Sustainable Design – to understand the requirements and be able to develop design solutions that balance the necessities of the several expertise involved as considered under sustainable attitudes; to be able to access and use 3-7D BIM models;
• SC Sustainable Construction – to be aware of the constraints arising from the implementation of sustainable buildings and infrastructures, both in the choice of materials and execution methods; to understand and be able to apply existing methodologies for its appraisal, under technical and economic aspects.
• SM Sustainable Management – understand and use work approaches that foster the implementation of sustainable coordinated options under the diverse expertise; apply Integrated Project Development models and ICT technologies for an effective information flow and monitoring.

Áreas de Especialização

Organization Framework

The proposed MBUILD MSc in Sustainable Design, Construction and Management of the Built Environment is a 2-year Cycle of Studies awarding the degree of Master of Science.

The course is organised in three teaching semesters, each one taking place in one of the partner universities, with an identical study plan to all students. These will travel between the three universities with classes delivered mainly by the residing staff and collaboration from staff from the other partners.

• The 1^st semester, to be delivered in FEUP (Portugal), focus on getting the students into the frame of mind of how to develop work in the CI under SUSTAINABILITY concerns. For this, the proposed modules will address the main CONCEPTS and STRATEGIES for Sustainability and how these can be implemented during the development of multi-expertise BUILDING DESIGN. The wide scope of stakeholders, professional expertise and trades that have to be combined during the full production spectrum for a building or infrastructure will be covered in modules concerning the MANAGEMENT of PROJECTS (inception and design focused) and WORKS (execution focused). In these modules the issues pertaining to the coordination and integration of the various components and the tools that can be used to structure, develop and monitor them, will be addressed. Finally, a module of INTEGRATED PROJECT 1 will apply most of these concepts and approaches in a practical case-study directed to building design.
• The 2^nd semester, to be delivered in THM (Germany), will address the issues concerned with the tools for the assessment of the performance of SUSTAINABLE CITIES and BUILDINGS, both new and refurbished, as well as the issues related to the achievement of a SUSTAINABLE THERMAL and ACOUSTIC LIVING ENVIRONMENT. A FIRE PROTECTION module will address the issues yielding from situations with large number of people gather in confined spaces, where the technical and materials’ problems arising from increased living comfort will also be relevant. The dematerialization of information in the CI, the computer tools for 3D-to-7D construction modelling will be the focus in ICT and BIM, with a large attention for an efficient management of the information contents and flow. As in the 1^st semester, a INTEGRATED PROJECT 2 will take place, now concerned essentially with the urban impact of building design.
• The 3^rd semester, now in UC (Spain), will concentrate largely on the aspects related to SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURES and SUSTAINABLE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, addressing the role of the urban context and how to ensure that sustainability concerns are adequately accounted for in it. The SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS and TECHNIQUES in CI will also be in focus, balancing the aspects of resource conservation and the economic short and long term impact of choices made during the design and execution stage. As a support for the development of the dissertation, the module of NEW TRENDS IN R&D in the Construction Industry will address the diverse areas under development for the future of a more sustainable industry and built environment. The INTEGRATED PROJECT 3 module will make use of the results of the two previous ones and frame it under the needed skills of entrepreneurship, leadership, adaptive and proactive professional profile, highly demanded for multinational CI companies.
• The 4th semester will be devoted to the development of the Dissertation and will take place in ANY OF THE UNIVERSITIES, according to theme and supervisor chosen by each student.

Competências Profissionais

Designing and Managing Construction Projects with deep and committed approach to sustainable solutions and attitudes.

Saídas Profissionais

Civil Engineering and Architectural practices with focus on developing work framend under the diverse concepts of sustainability as a whole and its reflection and application in the context of the Construction Industry.

Professionals in optimal place to act for EU companies working abroad, in a role of technical interface between the more sustainable solutions proposed by those companies and the actual context of the countries where projects will be implemented.

Informações

All information, application procedures, deadlines and application submission is made through the courses' dedicated platform www.mbuild.eu

Contactos

mbuild@fe.up.pt 

FEUP (PT): +351-22-041-4645
THM (DE): ++49-177-765-3333
UC (ES): +34-942-203-943

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