The 2nd cycle Degree Course in Building Engineering replaces the former course (class 4S- Architecture and Building Engineering, Ministerial decree 509/99).
The educational objective is to provide the labour market with high-level professionals who, through their interdisciplinary training and the acquisition of a typical engineering technique, are able to identify problems and find appropriate design solutions, keeping pace with the innovative dynamics of the area, to improve the quality of buildings in its physical, technical, performance, economic and process aspects.
In particular, the course aims at training professional engineers capable of working autonomously and effectively in the following fields:
- Design of complex building systems, with respect to the technological, structural, environmental quality aspects, and with a specific attention to wellbeing, service life and to issues related to energy, environmental impact and seismic safety;
- recovery, rehabilitation, maintenance and management of existing buildings and of historical buildings;
- Development of the construction process, with respect to the use of innovative materials and technologies;
- Energetic sustainability of building processes and products;
- Testing and quality control of products and works with respect also to the durability of materials for new buildings and for recuperation..
The training offered by the 2nd cycle Degree Course, focusing on integrated building design, structural and plant design, with respect to the existing different orientations, enables graduates of this course to easily fit in various building industry sectors
Credit intervals of the class specific educational activities provide further competences in the following sectors:
- Structural Design
Advanced study of structural analysis and design issues, through the in depth analysis of structures in reinforced concrete, pre-stressed concrete, steel, masonry with particular reference to prefabrication, and to the safety of the structures and to earthquake resistance issues.
- Plant engineering
Explores the design of technical plants and of safety systems for buildings, with particular attention to energetic and environmental sustainability issues.
- Building rehabilitation
Provides general and specific knowledge and the operational skills needed to tackle the building renovation sector in terms of building and structure design, of techniques and technologies as well as of the management organization of interventions.
Specific issues will then be detailed under a disciplinary and instrumental point of view with respect to the survey of damage and deterioration as well as of the study of the evolution of edifices , building techniques and used materials.
Existing regulations will be then analysed, as well as the latest technologies for interventions and for verifying the stability of buildings and inspecting yard works.
The first year of the educational programme will study in depth subjects related to structural issues(dynamics, complex structures in steel, reinforced concrete and pre-stressed reinforced concrete, structural problems of monuments and historic buildings), technological, environmental and plant engineering issues (technical architecture and technological innovation, design of thermal, technological and safety plants).
The second year is devoted to the preparation of building plans, with respect, in particular, to the recuperation of existing buildings, through the advanced study, under an integrated design point of view, of building issues(building design and building recuperation and conservation design), structural and plant engineering issues (structural designs in seismic zones, thermal, hydraulic and electric plant design for the building industry). The educational programme s completed by stages, internships, and the preparation of the degree dissertation.
