Project and Construction Management of Building Systems

Educational objectives

course aim is to study in more detail structural modeling and analysis, with particular reference to structural model, with its numerical implementation. By characterizing the models for the structural system and acting forces and their implementation with numerical codes, theoretical knowledge and operational procedures will be extended and completed; specific skills for the statement and development structural analysis will be developed.

Educational objectives

The course has the goal to provide theoretical and applicative issues on the relationship between architecture and building construction, through this different aspects: Introduction of the concept of building and architectural organism according to the constructive techniques, the materials and the principles of environmental sustainability. Analysis of the building organism in the technological, environmental and functional-spatial sub-systems and application of the performance approach to the various building scales. The structure and the envelope: construction principles and geometry of the supporting structure, environmental principles, construction of the envelope and energy saving. Plants, facilities ad integration with architecture.

Educational objectives

The course has the goal to provide theoretical and applicative issues on the relationship between architecture and building construction, through this different aspects: Introduction of the concept of building and architectural organism according to the constructive techniques, the materials and the principles of environmental sustainability. Analysis of the building organism in the technological, environmental and functional-spatial sub-systems and application of the performance approach to the various building scales. The structure and the envelope: construction principles and geometry of the supporting structure, environmental principles, construction of the envelope and energy saving. Plants, facilities ad integration with architecture.

Educational objectives

The course has the goal to provide theoretical and applicative issues on the relationship between architecture and building construction, through this different aspects: Introduction of the concept of building and architectural organism according to the constructive techniques, the materials and the principles of environmental sustainability. Analysis of the building organism in the technological, environmental and functional-spatial sub-systems and application of the performance approach to the various building scales. The structure and the envelope: construction principles and geometry of the supporting structure, environmental principles, construction of the envelope and energy saving. Plants, facilities ad integration with architecture.

Educational objectives

The course is aimed at introducing the fundamentals of soil mechanics adopting a twofold experimental and theoretical based approach which allows, in its final part, to analyse some schematic geotechnical engineering problems. In detail, the teaching path starts form the soil classification then deals with the peculiar aspects of the mechanics of soil as a multiphase material, this requiring the introduction of the necessary background on seepage analysis. Basic constitutive assumptions are then discussed, together with the standard laboratory tests adopted to characterise the soil behaviour. In the final part of the course, some simple geotechnical structures are analysed to evaluate their settlements and safety conditions.

Educational objectives

The course is aimed at learning skills and abilities, in order to understand and control the space of building systems or portions of it, through the critical exercise based on the acquisition and representation of the geometric, graphic, digital model. At the end of the course the student must be able to solve the creation and representation of complex geometric shapes, even generated in the parametric field, knowing how to set them critically according to the foundations and technical issues of the Representation Science.

Educational objectives

The Advanced FOUNDATIONS AND STRUCTURES STUDIO consists of two integrated modules and addresses the issues of verification and management of problems of structural design, foundations and structures above ground with specific attention to the aspects of the response of new and existing structures to earthquake motion, for checking compliance with seismic performance requirement according to modern design codes.

Educational objectives

The geotechnical part of the course is aimed at providing the basic tools to design shallow and deep foundations. Both theoretical and technological aspects are discussed in detail. The different stages of design are discussed starting from in situ investigation, soil characterisation and soil profile definition, to end up with the choice of the most convenient solution considering both serviceability and ultimate limit states.

Educational objectives

Within the integrated Studio, the course provides the fundamentals of earthquake generation and of the response of structures to earthquake motion. The course provides the tools, including innovative seismic protection techniques, for checking compliance with seismic performance requirement according to modern design codes. Finally, the course covers recent important developments in the important area of seismic risk assessment and reduction for existing non-conforming buildings.

Educational objectives

This course comprises several iterative modules, aimed at deepening the practical use of project management, its key disciplines, such as the overall process, and to assist graduates in entering the profession, consistently with both the models and the laws recently introduced in Italy, and the theories and practices universally adopted in this sector and known with the name of project management body of knowledge.
The modules address the thematic area of the building process management from the point of view of the procedures of the design process and of the phase of work assignment and building management and from the point of view of technical-economic sustainability.

Educational objectives

The specific goal of the Project Management module is to provide methods and tools of the technological culture for a correct approach within the decision-making process, for quality control, for the management of design choices and implementation of interventions.
At the end of the Project Management module, students must:
- have acquired the knowledge of the main operational phases, of the main actors and of the instruments of control of the technological quality,

- having acquired, also through the experimentation carried out through the application, the methodologies of control of the design and construction quality, starting from the technical-economic feasibility design, towards the subsequent technical in-depth stages of the process.

Educational objectives

This course comprises several iterative modules, aimed at deepening the practical use of project management, its key disciplines, such as the overall process, and to assist graduates in entering the profession, consistently with both the models and the laws recently introduced in Italy, and the theories and practices universally adopted in this sector and known with the name of project management body of knowledge.
The modules address the thematic area of the building process management from the point of view of the procedures of the design process and of the phase of work assignment and building management and from the point of view of technical-economic sustainability.

Educational objectives

The energy diagnosis of buildings is the fundamental tool to draw a picture of the actions and investments necessary for the determination and possible reduction of economic, energy and environmental costs related to the management of the buildings themselves. An energy diagnosis must be conducted with considerable accuracy and completeness, so as to allow the identification of interventions aimed at improving the income statement of the company and / or the citizen. The energy diagnosis is regulated by legislation, but, however, the technical skills that allow the drafting of energy diagnoses that faithfully reproduce the real energy status of the building are not yet highly developed. In fact, the energy diagnosis is erroneously understood as a simplified instrument of energy certification and economic evaluation. When the diagnosis is carried out in a qualified way, it can and must act as an instrument that helps the building owners to correctly identify and manage the interventions to reduce the expenses related to energy consumption.

Educational objectives

The Studio experiences the issues of integrated executive design and construction management. In particular, the Studio integrates on a case study related to building system chosen by the teaching team criteria, methods and tools driven to an integrated conception of morphological, structural, technological and economic solutions , with awareness of the economic and social environmental sustainability of the interventions, and within the framework of the innovation processes of the control of parametric and interoperable information models and of the process, design and production innovations.

Educational objectives

The Studio experiences the issues of integrated executive design and construction management. In particular, the Studio integrates on a case study related to building system chosen by the teaching team criteria, methods and tools driven to an integrated conception of morphological, structural, technological and economic solutions , with awareness of the economic and social environmental sustainability of the interventions, and within the framework of the innovation processes of the control of parametric and interoperable information models and of the process, design and production innovations.

Educational objectives

The Studio experiences the issues of integrated executive design and construction management. In particular, the Studio integrates on a case study related to building system chosen by the teaching team criteria, methods and tools driven to an integrated conception of morphological, structural, technological and economic solutions , with awareness of the economic and social environmental sustainability of the interventions, and within the framework of the innovation processes of the control of parametric and interoperable information models and of the process, design and production innovations.

Educational objectives

The elective courses should be consistent with the educational objectives of the degree program.

Educational objectives

The further learning activities are aimed at opening the student to verify the skills acquired open to jobs, through the attendance of internships, seminars, workshops, acquisition of computer skills, agreed with the coordinator of the Degree Course or with the teacher responsible for the verification of the knowledge acquired in this training area.

Educational objectives

The final exam consists of a thesis, elaborated individually with a single speaker or group of speakers co-ordinated within thesis laboratories, either a design or theoretical methodological (historical or technical) type, as a thorough development of the disciplinary content dealt with during the master degree course, even with the provision of interdisciplinary knowledge. It has to express technical and expressive maturity, as an original and updated contribution to the most advanced positions of the disciplinary debate.

Educational objectives

The Studio experiences the issues of integrated executive design and construction management. In particular, the Studio integrates on a case study related to building system chosen by the teaching team criteria, methods and tools driven to an integrated conception of morphological, structural, technological and economic solutions , with awareness of the economic and social environmental sustainability of the interventions, and within the framework of the innovation processes of the control of parametric and interoperable information models and of the process, design and production innovations.

Educational objectives

The Studio experiences the issues of integrated executive design and construction management. In particular, the Studio integrates on a case study related to building system chosen by the teaching team criteria, methods and tools driven to an integrated conception of morphological, structural, technological and economic solutions , with awareness of the economic and social environmental sustainability of the interventions, and within the framework of the innovation processes of the control of parametric and interoperable information models and of the process, design and production innovations.

Educational objectives

The Studio experiences the issues of integrated executive design and construction management. In particular, the Studio integrates on a case study related to building system chosen by the teaching team criteria, methods and tools driven to an integrated conception of morphological, structural, technological and economic solutions , with awareness of the economic and social environmental sustainability of the interventions, and within the framework of the innovation processes of the control of parametric and interoperable information models and of the process, design and production innovations.

Educational objectives

The Course aims to give students an organic framework for addressing the economic and management issues which characterize the activities of firms in the building market/process.
The Course is made up of two integrated teaching modules: a "institutional" Course mainly focussed on a general theoretical framework of the topic (main economic and business management principles: micro and macro economics, finance, marketing, management, etc.); a "monographic" Course focussed on the application of the topic with respect to the new market area of Facility Management (firms providing services for the management and maintenance of real estate and urban assets).