Single-Course Dansk 10 ECTS

House building

Overall Course Objectives

This course gives the students an overview and insight into the necessary skills to build a small building from start to finish.
The aim of the course is to provide the students with basic building technical prerequisites to be able to design a small building in a digital environment.
The aim of the course is to combine skills from this course with subject-specific topics from the other courses on the Construction and Infrastructure program in the 1st semester.

The aim of the course is also to learn how to present and collaborate on a construction project.

See course description in Danish

Learning Objectives

  • Projecting a small residential building with a focus on the whole, building construction and building materials
  • Explain the phases of construction including construction management, financial estimates, scheduling
  • Perform basic design of the building envelope and the building’s heating and ventilation systems
  • Use digital forms of communication with an emphasis on (BIM) Building Information Modelling
  • Assesses the climate footprint of individual building parts and buildings
  • Assess the individual building parts and the building’s financial conditions
  • Prepare a schedule for a construction project
  • Basic knowledge of heating and ventilation systems in small dwellings
  • Knowledge of building legislation, norms and standards
  • Documents, argues and communicates the chosen solutions in writing and orally
  • Assesses and evaluates the group’s working style

Course Content

Project planning
– Digital construction
– Construction phases
– The project structure and descriptions
– Quality, time and economy

Construction technology
– Construction details
– Material knowledge
– Climate screen

Bearing constructions
– Bearing and stabilizing constructions in smaller buildings

Installations
– Warm up
– Ventilation

Building energy
– The climate screen’s influence on energy consumption

Project and group work
– Meeting culture, including meeting management
– Forms of cooperation, including division of labour
– Presentation and argumentation for technical choices

Possible start times

  • 36 – 49 (Mon 8-12)
  • 36 – 49 (Mon 13-17)

Teaching Method

Teaching based on a case with lectures and group work with mandatory practical exercises and presentations.

Faculty

Remarks

Section of Building Technology and Processes
Byggeri og infrastruktur: 1. semester

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Registration

Language

Dansk

Duration

13 weeks

Institute

Engineering Technology

Place

DTU Ballerup Campus

Course code 62319
Course type Graduate Engineer
Price

18.500,00 DKK

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