Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2026-27

Construction in architecture or engineering is the art or technique of constructing buildings, infrastructures, etc. The building process is divided into different phases or trades: demolitions, earthworks, foundations, structure, enclosures, roofs, partitions, etc.
This subject includes the first constructions that are carried out once the resistant elements (foundations and structure) have been executed. Such as the construction of the building envelope or enclosures: facades and roofs.
This will cover key elements when working in the professional field, whatever the future dedication of the student (construction manager, project management, prevention technician, commercial, researcher, worker, etc.), as well as professional ethics.

 

 

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.

 

Conocimientos/Contenidos

  • CE12 : Knowledge of the environmental impact assessment of building and demolition processes, sustainability in building, and procedures and techniques for evaluating the energy efficiency of buildings.

 

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.
  • CE09 : Ability to rule on the causes and manifestations of defects in buildings, propose solutions to prevent or correct pathologies, and analyze the useful life cycle of elements and construction systems.
  • CE10 : Aptitude for intervening in building rehabilitation and in the restoration and conservation of built heritage.
  • CE13 : Ability to apply technical regulations to the building process and generate technical specification documents for building procedures and construction methods.
  • O5 : To manage new building technologies and participate in quality management processes in building; to carry out analyses, evaluations, and certifications of energy efficiency, as well as sustainability studies in buildings.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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

GENERAL OBJECTIVE
Acquire construction criteria for the development of professional practice in the field of construction of non-structural systems and elements.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

  • Reasoning the use of different constructive solutions, depending on the type of building, means, materials, etc. Live process, which changes according to the demands of society.
  • To develop a critical and comparative sense.
  • Use of technical language and graphic expression of construction elements (details).
  • To expand knowledge of the constructive elements and components of the building.
  • Develop a sense of observation.
  • Use appropriate constructive solutions in accordance with current regulations.
  • To forget stereotyped learning.
  • Acquire criteria for the use of traditional or new materials, as appropriate.
  • To know the needs of physical and human resources.
  • To acquire economic criteria.
  • To know the existing documentary sources.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE OF THE COURSE WORK
The general objective that the Teaching Unit intends to achieve through this coursework is to EXPOSE, KNOW AND SHARE CONSTRUCTIVE SOLUTIONS through new technologies and graphic tradition.
Complementing with secondary objectives such as:

  • To develop the CAPACITY of INTERPRETATION of graphic documentation, which contains an execution project.
  • To foment the SENSE OF OBSERVATION, as well as the critical development and of comparison; which must be reflected in the graphical representation of the constructive elements as well as the justification of the same ones.
  • To promote the DISCUSSION, among the students, of the different solutions that can have a same constructive detail, favoring the interaction of the participants throughout the course, by means of the partial deliveries and exhibition of the same ones.
  • To generate the proper space for the exchange of IDEAS, that allow to face the EDUCATIONAL, PEDAGOGICAL and PROFESSIONAL challenges of this moment and this reality, from an inclusive point of view that contemplates the technological advances.
  • To promote among students the integration of construction with DIGITAL novelties.

 

 

General

Code: 16043
Lecturer responsible:
Céspedes López, María Francisca
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