Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2026-27

This subject initiates to students in the terminology, concepts and basic building elements of a construction project to make way for a broader view of the systems and procedures used in the construction sector. This subject is a basic tool of first contact with the world of buildings in general and construction discipline in particular. With this subject students will understand the construction sector, in such a way that they can use it as an introduction to construction.

 

 

Learning outcomes / Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2026-27

Skills/Skills

  • O1 : To direct the material execution of building works, their installations and elements, carrying out qualitative and quantitative control of what has been built by establishing and managing control plans for materials, systems, and work execution, preparing the corresponding records for their incorporation into the Building Book. To carry out the economic control of the work by preparing certifications and the settlement of the executed work.

 

Skills/Competences

  • CE07 : Aptitude for identifying construction elements and systems, defining their function and compatibility, and their placement on site in the construction process. To propose and solve constructive details.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2026-27

This course is developed as a continuation and extension of the basic knowledge acquired in the four-month course History of the Construction. With this minimum knowledge and some new concepts, the aim for the student is to achieve the following goals:

• Identify the basic construction elements and parts.
• Acquire a comprehensive and comparative view from the first constructions up to now.
• Acquire the technical language of the discipline.
• Acquire the graphic expression of the elements and building construction techniques of the discipline.
• Develop a sense of observation.
• Identify and recognize different constructive typologies, morphology, function and performance.
• Get to pose and solve construction details.
• Know in theory and in practice the own construction techniques and the compatibility with the different building systems.
• Know the most appropriate building materials for each building type and its use in construction within the construction process.
• Acknowledge the different structural systems, learning the fundamental advantages and disadvantages that each one presents.
• Get adequate and sufficiently wide knowledge of construction, so that it is possible to continue in subsequent years of study.

 

 

General

Code: 16007
Lecturer responsible:
García González, Encarnación
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 0,00
Practical credits: 2,40
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: Building Sciences and Urbanism
    Area: Architectural Constructions
    Theoretical credits: 0
    Practical credits: 2,4
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

Study programmes where this course is taught