Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2012-13

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Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)

Specific Competences (CE)

  • E13 : Capacity to apply technical regulations to the building process and generate technical specification documents for the construction procedures and methods of buildings.
  • E15 : Ability to pre-dimension, design, calculate and check structures and oversee their material execution.
  • E16 : Capacity to develop the construction details of building installations, monitor and plan their execution and verify the service and reception tests, as well as their maintenance.
  • E17 : Capacity to programme and organise building processes, site equipment and the technical and human resources needed to execute and maintain them.
  • E18 : Understand building law and that of the contractual relationships that arise at different stages of the building process, as well as the legislation, regulations and specific standards relating to prevention and coordination in the field of health and safety during building work.
  • E22 : Understand the organisation of professional work and the professional practices, offices and societies, the regulations and legislation associated with the functions carried out by Building Engineers and the framework of responsibility associated with the activity.
  • E23 : Capacity to prepare and calculate basic, auxiliary, unit and breakdown costs of units of work; analyse and monitor costs during building, draft budgets.
  • E24 : Ability to develop market surveys and valuations, real estate feasibility studies, surveys and financial evaluation of hazards and damage in building.
  • E27 : Capacity to apply the advanced tools needed to reconcile the parts that make up technical projects and their management.
  • E30 : Capacity to analyse working projects and transfer them to the execution of work.
  • E31 : Understand the functions and responsibilities of the agents intervening in building and their professional or business organisation. Administrative, management and processing procedures.
  • E32 : Understand the professional organisation and basic procedures for building and development.
  • E37 : Comprender la lógica y el funcionamiento del entorno económico donde se integra la empresa de construcción. Comprender conceptos como inflación, desempleo, PIB, productividad, sector público, inversión, mercado de viviendas, política de viviendas o licitación, entre otros, y sus implicaciones para la empresa promotora. Aprender el funcionamiento de los sistemas de gestión financiera de la empresa constructora, estructura bancaria, medios de pago. Aprender y comprender el funcionamiento del Mercado inmobiliario y el de viviendas en España, con el objeto de facilitar la toma de decisiones de construcción. Resolver problemas prácticos de la empresa de edificación mediante la utilización de herramientas de cálculo económico, como el cálculo de una cuota hipotecaria, estimar el crecimiento de los costes de construcción, calcular la accesibilidad de las familias a la vivienda o el ritmo de crecimiento de los precios, entre otros.
  • E39 : Suitable understanding of the economic environment in which building companies operate, their institutional framework, organisational models and planning. Market foundations, production model, costs structure of the financial system and its working, housing and building market mechanisms. Identify the reactions of supply and demand in the residential market and identify the driving forces behind building in an area. Interpret market signals and changes in land regulation and other by-laws related to the supply and demand of housing. Recognise the importance of overall economic change and its effects on the working of the housing market on building companies. Capacity to calculate the evolution of costs, inflation, prices and production to integrate them into technical reports associated with bids or development activity. Capacity to calculate the final sale price of real estate assets.
  • E5 : Capacity to choose the correct building materials for the type and use of the building, manage and direct their receipt and quality control of the materials, their location on site, control the execution of the work units and carry out final tests and trials.

 

General Transversal Competences

  • G11 : Skills in a foreign language.
  • G12 : Computer and information skills.
  • G13 : Oral and written communication skills.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2012-13

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General

Code: 16031
Lecturer responsible:
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Credits ECTS: 9,00
Theoretical credits: 0,00
Practical credits: 3,60
Distance-base hours: 5,40

Departments involved

  • Dept: BUILDING SCIENCIES AND URBANISM DEPARTMENT
    Area: ARCHITECTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS
    Theoretical credits: 0
    Practical credits: 3,6
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

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