Tendering, awarding and billing, overview of laws and standards, basic principles of building contract types and building contract design, creation of tenders and specifications for tenders, use of the course content for practical examples.
Condensation inside the building, building acoustics and room acoustics, basic physical principles and their constructive implementation as well as standard verification and the fulfillment of minimum requirements.
Building Services Engineering
Basic terms and tasks of building services engineering, climate and energy issues from the perspective of the entire building, heat load calculation and energy balances, acoustics, overview of cable routing, control and regulation of building services engineering.
Drywall constructions, timber constructions doors, facades and glass facades, technical tasks regarding interfaces of varying construction concepts such as masonry and solid construction, lightweight construction, timber construction and hybrid building designs.
Design of a specific architectural object (eg residential building) with a specific spatial reference: that is, use and improvement of design and planning methods, whereby building regulations (development planning), design requirements and functional organisation are to be taken into consideration together with a user profile and spatial programme developed from this. Interior spatial design approaches are integrated into the architectural design.
Interior design as an interpretation of space, spatial objects and spatial structures; focus on material and colour effects, lighting and maintaining the “human” scale; Influence of social, cultural, physiological and psychological conditions.
Basic knowledge of space requirements, functional organisation and spatial qualities in residential construction, typologies and systems in multi-storey residential buildings using examples: explanation of location and orientation, access, housing concept, historical and contemporary aspects.
Properties, load-bearing behaviour and use of supporting structures, investigation of load-bearing models with regard to load-bearing capacity and material requirements, development of load-bearing concepts depending on manufacture, prefabrication, transport, construction and assembly, specific examples of wood, steel, glass, masonry and concrete construction, dimensioning of load-bearing components.
Building Surveying and Architectural Drawings
Use and significance of the building survey for the renovation and modernisation of existing buildings, technical implementation of building surveys with classic and computer-aided methods, evaluation of digitized measurement images, creation of measurement plans, basic methods of hand drawings for the documentation of detailed objects and perspective representation of buildings and building ensembles.
History of building in Europe and the Mediterranean region with a focus on the historical context, urban ensemble, building tasks, building types, shape concepts and stylistic influences in the context of local historical conditions.
Professional English for Architects 1
Examination of architecture-related topics, development of communicative strategies in professional life, emphasis on job applications and written correspondence
Material properties of concrete and concrete reinforcement steel and their interaction as composite building materials, verifications in the ultimate limit states of the load-bearing capacity for bending with and without normal and shear forces, verifications in the ultimate limit states of suitability for use with regard to deformations and crack width limitation according to Eurocode 2, constructive design of beams and supports
Material properties of steel, material technology, construction and dimensioning of steel components according to Eurocode 3, connection technology, constructive detailed solutions, stress problems of the second order.
Soil Mechanics and Engineering
Soil parameters, their determination and significance, strength and deformation properties of the soils, earth static calculations, permissible loads on the subsoil, improvement of the properties of the subsoil, shallow foundations, deep foundations, simple construction pit enclosures, stability of embankments, monolithic support structures
Soil engineering laboratory exercises
Naming and classification of soils, soil and rock classes, geotechnical investigations, determination of soil parameters (grain sizes and their distribution, grain density and grain weight, water content, porosity and number of pores, storage density of cohesive and non-cohesive soils, consistency limits, permeability).
Professional English for Engineers 1
Examination of construction-related topics and technical vocabulary, focus on structural engineering, development of communicative strategies in professional life, emphasis on job applications and written correspondence
Descriptive statistics, statistical parameters, basic principles of probability calculation, binomial and normal distribution, confidence intervals and simple statistical tests, application of the statistical evaluation in the security concept of the Eurocodes for load assumptions and material strengths.
Arch and cable structures, determination of internal forces according to second order theory, stability for straight bars, internal forces for plate structures, application of FEM programmes, modelling and interpretation of calculation results, basic principles of the theory of platitude, principles of building dynamics
