Sustainable Building Engineering - Ingegneria per l'Edilizia Sostenibile (sede di Rieti)

Bachelor Degree in Sustainable Building Engineering
L 23 Class - Science and Techniques of Constructions
Studies Program 2025-2026

Specific learning targets
The Bachelor Course (first cycle – 180 ECTS) of Sustainable Building Engineering, which is held entirely in English and in the Rieti campus, aims to
familiarize students with the knowledge and skills which provide a sustainable future both for existing buildings and for those they will design and build.
Achieving sustainable development continues to be among the major global issues of our era.
The main purpose of this degree, open to all the students, either Italian or foreign, is to update traditional, world-renowned, civil and architectural engineering skills, with a particular focus on environmental protection and especially sustainable development.
To achieve this target, the Degree will ensure the acquisition of top scientific and technological content and the ability to design, plan and manage solutions for the many and complex situations in terms of sustainable architecture, sustainability of built environment and territories, through the application of the following principles:
• lower energy demand and consumption by existing and new buildings;
• sustainable exploitation of natural resources to develop passive design strategies;
• sustainable architecture;
• recycle and reuse of building components and materials;
• extended lifetime of products and buildings;
• risk-free return of materials to the natural cycle;
• adoption of a sustainable use of the territory and a participatory planning and design;
• reduction of urban sprawl, promotion of urban renewal and protection of natural areas.
This degree aims to form professional engineers which are ready to tackle different projects either locally or at an international scale. At the design phase, a sustainable building engineer will be prepared to develop and control sustainable design strategies in architecture and urban planning; during the construction process, a sustainable building engineer will be able to use sustainable and recycled materials, to minimize waste flows and to avoid damage to urban areas and the natural environment. As a facility manager, a sustainable building engineer will know how to reduce energy demand, how to alternatively use other natural resources and how to settle new activities in a sustainable manner.
The programme also provides students with the scientific knowledge needed to obtain an appropriate technical and operational training in the fields of Architectural and Environmental Engineering, whose major target is the organization, protection and modification of the built environment and territory for human settlement purposes.
Targets of this course are also the acquisition of analytical skills to recognize, understand, plan and design under complex environmental conditions. By teaching the multiple activities of management, design, development, production at the different operational scales, which are at the core of the building industry, this course is intended to provide students with the basic knowledge to transform a territory in all its physical, economic, social and morphological aspects, from a sustainable point of view.
The course provides a knowledge of basic subjects, such as physics, mathematics, engineering geology and building representation; it also includes the teaching of application and intervention techniques in multidisciplinary fields of sustainable building engineering, such as urban planning, architectural technology, hydraulics, hydrology, environmental engineering, planning, structural mechanics, structural techniques, geotechnics and road constructions, taught stressing the specific aspects of sustainable development. This will be accompanied by the teaching of the principles of environmental health and of materials technology for a sustainable construction. As a consequence, the Sustainable Building Engineer can tackle the many complex issues of building engineering, from the initial design to completion with works management, with a special emphasis on environmental protection and environmental risk prevention.
The Degree will also prepare the Degree holder for the Master of Science in Environmental and Sustainable Building Engineering (2nd cycle – 120 ECTS), that provides a more complete and thorough preparation and specific skills in the subject areas required for intervention on the built environment and territory, to recover and protect it.
The portion of the total time available to the student for personal study or other individual learning activities is at least 60% (15 h of self-study for 1 ECTS).

Admission requirements
(DM 270/04, Article 6, paragraph 1 and 2)
Applicants must hold a high-school diploma or another qualification obtained abroad and recognized as valid in Italy.
Knowledge of English skills Bat 2 level is mandatory as minimum as spoken and written.
Mathematical skills are also required such that the student has the ability to:
• identify the problem data and use them to provide an answer;
• infer the behavior of a simple system, starting from the basic laws and the characteristics of its members;
• distinguish between necessary and sufficient conditions;
• link the results to the assumptions that determine them;
• know the limits of the simplifying assumptions at the basis of the mathematical models containing the problem.

Description of the training course
The training course is organized in two three-month periods of lessons, for each year, to gradually acquire the following skills and abilities. More specifically the content of each year can be summarized as follows:
• 1st year: General basic training and first elements of the application technologies;
• 2nd year: Implementation of the core subjects, basic training in engineering subjects, development of process technologies in the building field;
• 3rd year: Training in the sector of Sustainable Building Engineering on the training fields applied to the intervention in the built and natural environment.
To provide the Sustainable Building Engineer with an integrated professional training, both disciplinary and interdisciplinary experimental and design
laboratory activities are carried out; there is also the possibility of traineeships abroad, preferably in the third year.

Verification of proficiency in the foreign language and related credits
All students must take a test of proficiency in the English language, both written and oral. 3 ECTS are assigned to allow students to increase their language skills, with special attention to the technical field. The University offers Italian language courses for non-Italian students.

Study plans
Each student will submit a study plan, stating the options taken, and in compliance with the rules in force, within the deadline established annually by the Area Council. The study plan will be reviewed and approved or rejected by the Area Council, which will communicate the outcome of its decision to the student and to the Secretary's office of the Faculty.

Final Test
(DM 270/04, Article 11, paragraph 3-d)
The student, having attended mandatory course, internships and orientation within the branch chosen, will conclude the training course under the guidance of a supervising professor, with the elaboration of a synthetic Degree thesis, to be discussed during the final test. The latter, to be held in the presence of the Degree Board, assesses the achievement of learning outcomes, referring to knowledge data, analytical skills, synthesis processing in relation to the topic of the thesis under discussion and the required level of communication.

Employment and career opportunities for graduates
(DM on Classes, Art. 3, paragraph 7)
There are a variety of professional, managerial and policy-making positions in a wide range of organizations, involved in the management and use of existing buildings. There is an increasing demand in Europe and internationally for built environment professionals in the field of sustainability, who are able to develop and deliver holistic solutions for the sustainability of existing and future buildings.
The Degree program is designed to form an intermediate professional figure, able to carry out activities in various fields of the building industry, cooperating in the planning, design and implementation of interventions to organize and transform the territories at different scales. More specifically, graduates in this Degree course will know and understand the morphological, typological, structural and technological characters of modifying interventions, preservation and protection of the territory and construction, transformation and conservation of building structures into their material and constructive components, in relation to environmental, social, economic, regulatory and productive context.
Graduates may practice the acquired skills in public and private companies, engineering companies, construction and environmental industries, construction companies, as well as in private consulting. The degree programme also prepares to access further degree courses and, in particular, the master's degree programme in Environmental and Sustainable Building Engineering.
The course prepares students for the profession of:
• Engineers and related professions - (2.2.1)
• Civil engineers - (2.2.1.6)
• Building engineers - (2.2.1.6.1)

Typology of courses taken and the procedures for verification of proficiency
For each course, lectures, tutorials, workshops, group work will be provided, in addition to any other activity deemed appropriate.
The assessment of knowledge acquired in each course is usually done through an examination (E) consisting of oral and / or written tests, as defined by the teacher and communicated along with the program (or posted on www.uniroma1.it, the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering site
(http://www.ing.uniroma1.it).
For some activities, an exam will not be held, but replaced by a “judgement of eligibility” (V); also in this case the procedure will be defined and
communicated by the teacher.

Study Program

FIRST YEAR
TEACHING SECTOR (SSD) ECTS SEMESTER ACTIVITY
Materials technology for sustainable construction ING-IND/22 6 1 B
Physics FIS/01 9 1 A
Analysis I and II MAT/05 12 1 and 2 A
Descriptive geometry and architecture drawing with elements of architecture history
ICAR/17-ICAR/18 9+6 2 and 1 A
Environment and health MED/42 9 2 C
Geometry MAT/03 6 2 A
Foreign language AAF1871 3 2 E

SECOND YEAR
TEACHING SECTOR (SSD) ECTS SEMESTER ACTIVITY
Geomatics ICAR/06 6 1 B
Hydraulics ICAR/01 9 1 B
Structural mechanics ICAR/08 9 1 B
Building design for sustainable architecture-architectural design
ICAR/10-ICAR/14 9 +6 1 and 2 B
Engineering geology for sustainable building GEO/05 9 2 A
Environmental engineering physics ING-IND/11 6 2 B

6 ECTS FROM THE FOLLOWING OPTIONAL SUBJECTS
TEACHING SECTOR (SSD) ECTS SEMESTER ACTIVITY
Elements of chemistry CHIM/07 6 1 YEAR 1 SEMESTER C
Project evaluation ICAR/22 6 2 YEAR 2 SEMESTER C
Building components design ICAR/10 6 2 YEAR 2 SEMESTER C
Geohazards GEO/05 6 2 YEAR 2SEMESTER C
Construction site management ICAR/11 6 3 YEAR 1SEMESTER C
Comparative international legislation for public works IUS/09 6 3 YEAR 2 SEMESTER C
Engineering seismology GEO/11 6 3 YEAR 1SEMESTER C
Sustainable techniques for road construction ICAR/04 63 YEAR 2 SEMESTER C

THIRD YEAR
TEACHING SECTOR (SSD) ECTS SEMESTER ACTIVITY
Principles of environmental engineering ICAR/03 9 1 B
Sustainable community planning ICAR/20 6 1 B
Structural design ICAR/09 9 1 B
Hydrology ICAR/02 9 2 C
Geotechnical engineering ICAR/07 9 2 B
Other training activities

TEACHING SECTOR (SSD) ECTS SEMESTER ACTIVITY
Elective course = 6+6 1 an/or 2 D
Final test AAF1959 3 2 E
More foreign language knowledge AAF1960 3 2 F

Legend: A=base activities; B=characterizing activities; C=complementary alike activities; D=elective activities; E=final test; F=other complementary activities

Attendance also referring to part-time students

The freshmen and students of the Degree course, who are simultaneously engaged in other activities, may opt for part-time and achieve fewer ECTS per year, instead of the 60 required.
The rules and procedures applicable are indicated by the University Rules. To regulate the rights and duties of part-time students, please refer to the general rules established.
The Degree course will appoint a mentor, who will support part-time students in the training programme agreed.

Rules to pass to following years and prerequisites

The student must have obtained at least 21 credits to be enrolled in the second year of the course of study, and 45 credits to be enrolled in the third year of the course.

During the course of their training, students must comply with the prerequisites listed in the table

Students enrolled under previous didactic regulations

Students from degree courses of Engineering already opened at the Sapienza University of Rome may, upon request, obtain to be transferred to the new Degree in Sustainable Building Engineering of the L23 Class (DM 270/04), after obtaining the approval, by the Academic Board, of the training activities performed in terms of university credits.

Transfers
Students who wish to enroll in the Degree course of Sustainable Building Engineering, coming from degree programs of other classes and / or courses of L23 class of other universities, must submit a special application to the Degree course council and simultaneously require, if appropriate, an abbreviated training path documenting the passing of exams of disciplines present in the didactic regulation of their original Degree course.

Check procedures of study periods abroad

Courses taken in European or foreign universities with which the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering has in place agreements, projects and / or
contracts, are recognised in the manner prescribed by the agreements.
Students can, with permission of the Degree course council, carry out a period of study abroad within the scope of the LLP Erasmus project.
In accordance with the academic regulations of the University in the case of studies, examinations and academic degrees obtained abroad, the Degree course examines individually the programme for the purpose of credit allocation in the corresponding disciplinary scientific fields.

General Information
Information regarding the Degree course is shown in the study @ sapienza section of the Sapienza University of Rome website
http://en.uniroma1.it/study-us, and also available on the official website of the Ministry of Instruction, University and Research (MIUR).
Detailed information relating to: Programme and educational materials is available on the website www.uniroma1.it , Faculty of Civil and Industrial
Engineering or web.uniroma1.it/sbe
The e-mail address of the course of study is: sbe@uniroma1.it

Tutorial services: the Degree course offers tutoring services made available by the Faculty. The teachers of the Degree perform disciplinary tutoring activities to support the students. On the Course site (web.uniroma1.it/sbe) emails, phone number and office hours of teachers are reported. The academic tutors will follow the development of the student. In addition to the regular tutoring service, the Degree course also provides additional tutors, in particular for basic and design disciplines.

Quality assessment: individual courses during the Degree course, in collaboration with the Faculty, are assessed individually by the students. This is
integrated with a quality path responsibility of which is entrusted to the self-assessment group, composed of teachers, students and staff of the degree programme.

The results of the surveys and the conclusions of the self-evaluation group are used to improve teaching and training.

The Coordinator of the Bachelor Degree
Prof.ssa Agostina Chiavola