Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2025-26

The thermography is a technology that captures and creates an image using the infrared radiation issued by the objects, designated thermal image or termograma. Therefore, a thermal camera is an instrumental that allows to visualise and/or register the temperature of the objects in the finder, assigning to each temperature a colour.

In the last years this technology has turn an accessible tool of diagnostic no destructive that allows numerous applications in the field of the edificación. Applications that allow the detection, among others, of thermal bridges, fault of thermal isolation, anomalies in the materials, failures in electrical installations, humidities or leaks of air (Kaplan, 2007; Lucchi, 2018). By what the cameras termográficas can incorporate like a tool to the hour to make audits, technical inspections or maintenance of the edificaciones and installations.

From his starts the International Agency of the Energy (AIE) promoted methods of calculation to predict the saving of energy and entered the thermography like tool of detection (ECBCS, 2014; Fracastoro & Lyberg, 1983). At the same time the European Union (EU) has developed a series of managerial whose aim is to reduce the energetic consumption of the edifices, the emissions of gases of effect invernadero and the demand of resources no renewable, promoting, besides, the realisation of energetic audits (CE, 2002; EU, 2010, 2012).

Therefore, the camera termográfica is one of the tools to use in this type of performances. The handle of the camera is simple, but have to take a series of considerations to the hour to make a termograma so that this was valid. Besides, the interpretation and the analysis of the same are very important to the hour to make a report that allow a correct performance (Bleated & Argiriou, 2002).

 

 

Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2025-26

Transversal Competences

  • CT1 : Demonstrate computer and informational skills in the field of new technologies in building construction.
  • CT2 : Demonstrate skills in oral and written communication.
  • CT3 : Demonstrate the ability to lead studies related to savings and energy efficiency in buildings.

 

General Competences

  • CG5 : Analyze and structure the energy behavior of buildings, evaluating, rationalizing, and comparing results to make informed decisions.
  • CG7 : Utilize, manage, and interpret data from specific tools used within the study field to make decisions, generate reports, and communicate conclusions.

 

Specific Competences

  • CE17 : Understand and operate infrared thermal cameras.
  • CE18 : Ability to analyze the thermal behavior of an enclosure by detecting thermal anomalies.

 

Basic Competences

  • CB10 : That students possess the learning skills that allow them to continue studying in a way that will be largely self-directed or autonomous.
  • CB6 : Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context
  • CB7 : That students know how to apply the knowledge acquired and their ability to solve problems in new or little-known environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of ¿¿study
  • CB8 : Students are able to integrate knowledge and deal with the complexity of making judgements on the basis of incomplete or limited information, including reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities associated with information which, while incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgements.
  • CB9 : Students are able to communicate their conclusions and the ultimate knowledge and rationale behind them to specialist and non-specialist audiences in a clear and unambiguous way.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

· Aplicar el lenguaje y terminología específica de termografía.
· Experimentar qué información ofrece la cámara termográfica en diferentes situaciones.
· Determinar qué tipo de cámara termográfica es más adecuada en función del uso.
· Reunir la información pertinente para poder realizar una inspección termográfica.
· Redactar un informe termográfico.

 

 

Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2025-26

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General

Code: 43535
Lecturer responsible:
Céspedes López, María Francisca
Credits ECTS: 3,00
Theoretical credits: 0,60
Practical credits: 0,60
Distance-base hours: 1,80

Departments involved

  • Dept: BUILDING SCIENCIES AND URBANISM DEPARTMENT
    Area: ARCHITECTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS
    Theoretical credits: 0,6
    Practical credits: 0,6
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

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