• 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

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