Civil Engineering and Construction Management

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• Students will be able to apply the fundamentals of building physics to wall, ceiling and roof assemblies.

• Students will be able to design the foundation of a building structure.

• Students will be able to design solid and lightweight wall structures.

• Students will be able to develop stairs as building access.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exam

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• Students will be able to read plans and describe plan content.

• Students will be able to apply the fundamentals of technical drawing.

• Students will be able to draw a submittal plan as well as a foreman's plan.

• Students will be able to describe and apply the specifications for submittal and foreman design.

• Students will be able to apply the general processes from planning to implementation.

Exercises; lecture

Continuous assessment: Written exams

Basics

• Students will be able to explain the technical parameters of building materials.

• Students will be able to describe approaches to evaluating building materials in terms of sustainability and elementary scientific approaches to advancing building materials.

• For important binders used in the construction industry, students will be able to state in each case the starting materials, the essential technology of production and thus an initial assessment of the sustainability behavior, the technical properties and the resulting applications.

• Students will be able to specify for different types of mortar, in each case, the starting materials, the main technologies used to produce them and, consequently, an initial assessment of their sustainability behavior, their technical properties and the resulting applications.

Lecture + exercises

Continuous assessment: Written exams

Hypothetical language: making polite suggestions, analyzing effects of past events, describing consequences

Academic skills: Efficient notetaking, critical thinking and questioning

Civil Engineering: subfields of civil engineering; technical vocabulary; construction phases; feasibility study; GANTT charts in project management

Presentation skills: opening techniques, signposting, building rapport, idiomatic phrases, closing a presentation, describing results and trends

Sustainability in Civil Engineering: United Nations SDGs, Green Building Standards

Attaching and supporting: vocabulary for structural elements; types of load; stress, strain, and deformation

Structural engineering: skyscrapers

Use of English: hypothesizing, narrative tenses, subordinate clauses of result and purpose, future tenses, weights, measures, shapes, numbers; idiomatic language

• Students can hypothesize about business developments, express polite suggestions and fluently analyze consequences of past events. Students demonstrate critical thinking by formulating relevant questions to interpret, challenge and evaluate information.

• Students can communicate about a wide range of civil engineering topics using specific vocabulary for technical equipment, building materials, attaching structural members and explaining weights, measures, shapes and numbers. Students can write feasibility study reports involving GANTT charts for effective project management.

• Students can give professional presentations using idiomatic language, maintaining rapport with the audience, and using visuals to support their messages. Students can deliver clear and coherent presentations of numerical information, charts, and trends using discipline-specific terminology.

• Students can critically evaluate sustainability practices in civil engineering by applying industry-specific terminology related to green building standards and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

• Students can analyze and communicate key structural engineering concepts related to high-rise building construction, including load distribution, material selection, and design strategies, using industry-relevant terminology.

Lecture, group work, discussions, writing tasks, self-study (research project: rebuilding / new development of a building with a focus on the UN SDGs) online collaboration; presentations

Final exam: Language check and course projects must be positive to pass the course.

•Language check (90 mins): 25%

•Course project: 1. Rebuilding / new development of a building with a focus on the UN SDGs: 50%

•Course project: 2. Note-taking and critical thinking: 15%

•Attendance & participation: 10%

1. introduction to business administration

2. the company and its organization

3. corporate accounting

• Students will be able to describe how a business functions and the processes involved.

• Students will be able to define the different organizational and legal forms of business enterprises.

• Students are able to explain and apply the basics of accounting (balance sheet P&L).

• Students will be able to perform simple balance sheet analysis.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

Session 1 – Introduction: My Learning So Far
Reflection on students’ previous learning behaviour and the factors that have influenced it, approached in two different ways. General definition of the concept of learning and differentiation between various forms of learning. Exercise: Material Challenge.

Session 2 – Learning and Memory
How does our brain work? Trying out different techniques designed to counteract forgetting.

Session 3 – From Learning to Knowledge
Techniques aimed at improving the understanding of new information by establishing meaningful connections between different pieces of knowledge.

Session 4 – Motivation and Self-Regulation: How Do I Get Started?
Techniques that help students begin their learning activities in good time and overcome procrastination.

Session 5 – Managing Stress Professionally
Reflection on individual stress factors and possible strategies that can be helpful both preventively and in acute stressful situations.

Session 6 – Life Does Not Always Go According to Plan
Learning from mistakes and setbacks while strengthening resilience. Reflection and a specific communication exercise.

Session 7 – Transfer: Developing My Personal Learning Toolbox
Bringing together the knowledge and strategies acquired throughout the course to create an individual learning toolbox, taking into account effective time management.

• Students can name three different learning strategies and supporting digital tools for use in the cognitive, metacognitive and resource-related areas and apply one strategy or tool from each of these areas in a specific learning context of their studies.

• Students reflect on the benefits and usefulness of the tested learning strategy or digital tool and decide how to integrate it into their methodological set of learning and working strategies.

• Students assess their own learning behavior using a learning biography at the beginning of the course. They identify changes in individual learning behavior with the help of the learning biography.

In-person teaching

Lectures and short input sessions, interactive individual, pair and group exercises, self-assessment activities and individual reflection. Students transfer learning and working strategies to other subject areas of their first semester.
At the end of the course, students compile a personal learning toolbox as an individual summary of the strategies, methods and insights developed throughout the course.
A possible off-site educational visit is currently being considered.

Continuous assessment: Continuous assessment and regular reflections.

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• Students will be able to describe, classify, and calculate soils.

• Students will be able to plan subsurface investigations.

• Students will be able to evaluate effects of water on soil and provide evidence against hydraulic fracturing and buoyancy.

• Students will be able to calculate stresses in the soil.

• Students will be able to calculate the settlements of foundations.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

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• Students will be able to implement 3-dimensional planning.

• Students will be able to construct numeric coordinate input using basic elements, change and duplicate commands.

• Students are able to apply the working method with 'intelligent' building objects (wall, ceiling, window, door, staircase, ...).

• Students will be able to create views (floor plans, sections and elevations) and evaluations from the building model.

• Students will be able to design plans from the views they develop and put them into the desired form.

Lecture

Continuous assessment: Project work

1 Complex numbers

2 Matrices

3 Linear systems of equations

4 Vectors and vector spaces

5 Eigenvalues and eigenvectors

6 Linear dynamic systems

7 Differential calculus

8 Integral calculus

• Students can explain the core concepts of higher engineering mathematics - including complex numbers, matrix calculus, linear dynamic systems and infinitesimal calculus - in their own words and describe their geometric and physical significance. Students are able to independently apply standardized mathematical procedures and calculation rules to concrete structural engineering and mathematical problems in order to calculate exact analytical solutions.

• Students demonstrate the ability to implement the mathematical problems covered algorithmically. They can program mathematical relationships, data and functions with standard libraries (such as NumPy and matplotlib) in Python, display them graphically and critically check numerical results.

• Students are able to mathematically analyze complex physical and structural systems (such as plane trusses or time-dependent processes). They can transfer real structural or dynamic conditions into mathematical models (LGS or recursion relationships) and assess the system behavior with regard to stability and long-term development.

Lecture with numerous practical examples

Final exam: Written exams

In recent decades, the importance of building physics in architectural design has increased significantly. As people today spend up to 90% of their lives indoors, a precise coordination of thermal protection in winter and summer, moisture protection, and sound insulation is necessary to ensure both user comfort and building sustainability. The lecture introduces the physical fundamentals of thermal, moisture, and sound protection. Building on the basics of heat transfer through the building envelope, the overall energy balance of buildings is calculated, including an examination of summer thermal protection. Building regulations and legal requirements (e.g., energy performance certificates) as well as construction standards are also addressed. Another key focus is moisture transport through building components as well as moisture management and protection in buildings. The lecture concludes with an introduction to acoustics, covering both room acoustics and building acoustics.

• Students will be able to assess the physical fundamentals of thermal, moisture, fire, and sound protection.

• Students will be able to apply relevant building and funding codes and standards in the design of buildings.

• Students will be able to determine the heating demand, final energy demand, primary energy demand, and CO2 emissions of buildings.

• Students will be able to plan structural sound insulation of exterior building components and within buildings (impact sound insulation, airborne sound insulation).

• Students will be able to ensure the durability of building structures through applied moisture protection.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

1. Basics of constitutional and administrative law with reference to the construction industry: different types of sources of legal knowledge and their origin, specific constitutional provisions as the basis of public construction law, organization of authorities and courts and corresponding jurisdiction in relation to the construction industry, basics of administrative procedural law including construction procedures and associated key terms such as ordinance, decision, party status, appeal procedures in relation to the construction industry, overview of spatial planning law;
2. Overview of judicial criminal law and differentiation from administrative criminal law and tort law according to the Austrian Civil Code, responsible officer according to the Administrative Offenses Act.
3. Overview of trade law and differentiation from the professional law of civil engineers
4. Land register law and cadastre
5. Property law: Property law terms relevant to the construction industry using land register law (different types of ownership, possession, lien/mortgage, easement, real charge, building right, superädifikat, etc.).
6. Basics of contract law: conclusion of contract, cost estimate, general terms and conditions, delay in delivery, delay in acceptance, delay in payment, retention of title, securing claims (bank guarantee, retention of liability, penalty, etc.), warranty, guarantee, compensation law, product liability law, etc.; overview of copyright law for construction plans

• After successfully completing the course, students will be able to systematically understand and classify the most important legal steps for the realization of a construction project and apply them in practice. They will be able to explain the main features of constitutional and administrative law with special reference to the construction industry and distinguish between the different types of sources of legal knowledge and their origins. Furthermore, they understand the constitutional framework as the basis of public construction law and can describe the organization of authorities and courts as well as their responsibilities in the construction industry. Students are also able to explain the zoning plan as a central instrument of local spatial planning and assess its legal significance for construction projects.

• Students master the essential basics of administrative procedural law, particularly in the context of construction procedures. They will be able to correctly apply key terms such as decision, party status and appeal procedures and assess their significance for construction projects. They will be able to differentiate between judicial criminal law, administrative criminal law and civil law on damages and understand the role and responsibility of a responsible officer under the Administrative Penal Code. Students know the basic provisions of trade law and can clearly distinguish this from the professional law of civil engineers.

• Students will be able to systematically explain the key concepts of property law in the construction industry and apply their practical significance in connection with land register law. In particular, they will be able to explain different forms of ownership and the legal difference to possession and apply them to construction-related issues. In addition, they understand the function and legal structure of liens (especially mortgages) for financing construction projects and can analyze and evaluate easements (servitudes), real encumbrances as well as building rights and superädifikate with regard to their significance for the use and development of land.in the area of land register law and cadastre, they are able to explain the basic structures and analyze their significance for the planning and implementation of construction projects. In particular, they understand the structure of the land register as well as the functioning of the public faith of the land register and the principles of registration. They will be able to explain the role of the land register as a technical counterpart to the land register. Students will also be able to read and interpret extracts from the land register - even in complex and multi-layered cases - and derive the relevant legal consequences for the planning, execution and utilization of construction projects.

• In the area of contract law, students will be able to explain how contracts are concluded and differentiate between central contents such as cost estimates, general terms and conditions and various types of default (default in delivery, acceptance and payment). They will be able to assess instruments for securing receivables such as bank guarantees, liability retentions and penalties. They are also able to apply the legal concepts of warranty, guarantee, compensation and product liability in practice. Furthermore, they understand the basic aspects of copyright law in connection with construction plans and can assess its relevance for practice. Overall, after completing the course, students will be able to analyze legal issues in the construction industry in a structured manner and make well-founded decisions in the context of project management. In particular, they will understand the interdisciplinary relationship between legal framework conditions and technical planning and execution processes and will be able to take these into account mutually. In addition, they are able to communicate with legal stakeholders - in particular lawyers, notaries and courts - in a technically precise manner.

Practice-oriented lecture involving the students

Practical examples and cases

Final exam: Written exam: multiple choice - moodle - paper pencil

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• The students are able to calculate statically determined structures.

• Students will be able to determine the internal forces that occur.

• Students will be able to determine support sizes.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

Building construction

• Students will be able to interpret project templates and use them to create their own project in a group setting.

• Students will be able to implement and target all course content learned from other lecturers' lectures and prepare architectural, structural design plans and regulatory setback plans.

• The students are able to use the CAD version provided by the UAS to convert the output documents in such a way that a CAD "overall model" is created from it, which can subsequently be used by the individual students at any time.

• Students are able to develop design and construction tasks and to recognize and describe the structural characteristics of a building.

• Students will be able to estimate the spatial and structural details of buildings and interpret a relatively accurate idea of spatial sequences and structural components.

Exercises

Continuous assessment: Exercises

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• Students will be able to design solid and lightweight ceiling structures.

• Students will be able to design basements in terms of load-bearing structures and water stress.

• Students will be able to design a flat roof with its many options and details.

• Students will be able to properly assess and develop windows.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exam

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• Students will be able to state for normal concrete and concrete blocks the raw materials, the essential technology of production and thus an initial assessment of the sustainability behavior, the technical properties and the resulting applications.

• Students will be able to state for ceramic building materials and building glasses the starting materials, the essential technology of production and thus an initial assessment of the sustainability behavior, the technical properties and the resulting applications.

• Students will be able to state for plastics and insulation materials the starting materials, the essential technology of production and thus an initial assessment of sustainability behavior, the technical properties and the resulting applications.

• Students will be able to state for construction metals the starting materials, the essential technology of production and thus an initial assessment of the sustainability behavior, the technical properties and the resulting applications.

• The students are able to state the raw materials for wood and wood-based materials and thus an initial assessment of the sustainability behavior, the essential technologies for production. The technical properties and the resulting applications.

Lecture + exercises

Continuous assessment: Written exams

1. Deepening of the Functions of the Company according to Business Administration 1.
2. Deepening of Selected Topics in Accounting.
3. Investment Appraisal.
4. Financing including Excursion: Project Financing.

• Learning Objective 1: Students will be able to understand and apply the functions of the company as covered in Business Administration 1 in a more in-depth manner. In this regard especially focus will be on: Procurement and logistics, production and marketing.

• Learning Objective 2: Students will deepen their knowledge of selected topics in accounting and will be able to successfully apply advanced concepts and methods.

• Learning Objective 3: Students will acquire knowledge and skills in conducting investment evaluations and will be able to address complex issues in the field of investments.

• Learning Objective 4: Students will develop a profound understanding of financing methods and will be able to apply them to various business contexts. Additionally, they will be capable of dealing with project financing and its specific challenges.

• Learning Objective 5: Furthermore, they are capable of engaging with project financing and its specific challenges.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

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• Students will be able to describe the strengths and weaknesses of different communication channels.

• Students will be able to describe the areas of application of digital and analog communications in operations.

• Students will be able to assess the importance of external and internal corporate communications.

Lecture, pairwork, groupwork, writing tasks

Continuous assessment: Exercises and written exams

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• Students will be able to calculate soils.

• Students will be able to perform foundation design and dimensioning.

• Students will be able to calculate different types of earth pressures.

• Students will be able to apply earth pressure theories and design retaining walls.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

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• Students will be able to describe general principles of applied geology for a practical application.

• The students are able to read and reproduce a geological report or to classify relevant engineering geological contents in order to apply them for efficient problem solving.

• Students will be able to describe subject-specific map material.

• Students will be able to research information in the field of applied geology and geomechanics on a national and international level according to the state of the art.

Lecture; exercises

Final exam: Written exams

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• Students will be able to describe the properties and design principles for wood as a building material.

• Students will be able to explain the principles of durability of the building material using their own sketches.

• Students will be able to sketch and explain structural systems of timber construction.

• Students will be able to design structures using wood as a building material and reproduce the strength properties of the building material and principles of design procedures (preparation for VO KHB2).

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

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• The students will be able to systematically analyse spatial and geometric problems and break them down into their fundamental geometric relationships.

• The students will be able to apply different geometric transformation methods and investigate their effects on objects in three-dimensional space.

• The students will be able to construct curves and surfaces in Rhino3D, deliberately modify their parameters, and interpret the resulting geometric changes.

• The students will be able to use the core components of Grasshopper in a targeted manner to create parametric geometric models.

• The students will be able to explain the functional principle of the optimisation tool Galapagos and describe its role in the parametric design process.

Lecture

Final exam: Written final examination in the form of a Rhino/Grasshopper-based project.

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• Students will be able to perform basic surveying tasks on the job site.

• Students are able to describe coordinate systems and reference frames

• Students will be able to name and describe the basic components of a total station and level.

• Students will be able to classify and adequately apply GNSS and its accuracies in civil engineering.

• The students are able to name modern methods (laser scanning, UAV surveys) and their purpose or their advantages and disadvantages.

Lecture

Continuous assessment: Written exams, presentations

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• The students know the responsibilities and tasks of the departments of the City of Vienna dealing with building law issues and are familiar with their organizational interaction.

• Students will be able to correctly interpret and legally evaluate planning documents containing zoning and land development plans.

• Students will be able to present the legal basis and structure of the Vienna Building and Construction Law as well as its relation to other related legal matters.

• Students will be able to explain the building permit procedures provided for various construction projects and outline the procedural processes that may need to be completed electronically.

• Students will be able to classify these legal matters as a basis for later, independent and practical application.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

Introduction to steel construction, background and determination of cross-section classes, stress analysis, plastic analysis, interaction conditions

• Students are able to determine cross-section classes and select the correct verification method based on the result. .

• Students are able to determine the normal and shear stresses of rolled and welded profiles.

• The students are able to perform plastic cross-section verifications using the interaction conditions.

Lecture with activating methods

Final exam: Written final examination with calculation part and theory knowledge test

Grading key, detailed assessment criteria and permitted aids according to the slides for the first teaching unit

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• The students are able to describe the material behavior of the building materials concrete and reinforcing steel under load and via the characteristic values of the building materials necessary for the calculation.

• Students are able to apply the general load-bearing behavior of reinforced concrete and, based on this, the basic rules for the arrangement of reinforcement of reinforced concrete components.

• Students will be able to perform the basic load capacity calculations and design for bending and bending with normal force.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

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• Students will be able to determine stresses and strains.

• Students are able to calculate deformations of simple statically determinate structures.

• Students will be able to perform simple stability checks.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

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• Students will be able to have an overview of construction equipment and methods so that they can select appropriate methods for individual construction tasks based on technical and economic criteria.

• The students are able to describe the essential construction machines in their conception and with their operating conditions and possible applications, developing appropriate decision criteria (e.g. performance and cost approaches) for the selection of individual construction machines and construction methods.

• Students will be able to perform simple cost calculations using school-based calculation examples.

Lecture, exercises

Final exam: Moodle Paper Pencil (Multiple Choice)

The students create execution plans (forecast and detailed plans) from the CAD overall planning model developed in the second semester. Furthermore, the students create detailed structural measurements and calculations, as well as descriptions (description of the supporting structure, according to the minimum requirements of the City of Vienna [residential construction], the BOW with OIB-RL and Eurocode). They also develop detailed building physics calculations and detailed designs (U-value calculations, with layer boundary temperatures Rw, Dntw and Rw, res. ventilated standard impact sound level L'nTw).

• Students will be able to further interpret the project templates handed out in the 2nd semester in that much more accurate projects of their own will be created from them.

• Using the CAD version provided by the UAS, the students are able to create an architectural foreman's plan, including more detailed planning and planning of the construction sequence, from the overall models of the templates created in the groups in the 2nd semester.

• Students will be able to implement and target all course content developed from other lecturers' lectures.

• The students are able to develop and implement planning tasks and also to recognize, plan, interpret and calculate constructional details of the building and likewise the structural-physical properties of a building.

• The students are able to estimate and interpret the structural design of buildings including the detailed execution for the construction.

The students in each group will prepare a foreman's floor plan and at least two sections with all Ö-NORM-compliant versions, as well as a construction schedule that provides a rough time estimate for the individual trades. They will also develop detailed execution plans with all dimensions and descriptions important for detailed planning. For this purpose, the groups will prepare detailed structural descriptions of the supporting structure and a more precise overall building physics assessment of a building with the required individual verifications.

Continuous assessment: Written exams

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• Students will be able to design structures in terms of construction and formation.

• Students will be able to design structures in terms of construction and formation.

• Students will be able to apply the fundamentals of structural design.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exam

The aim is to impart the necessary skills for the preparation of submission plans for fire protection submission documents in accordance with the requirements for Vienna (BTVO, OIB RL, ÖNORM; TRVB, Planzeichenverordnung, etc.) and a standard fire protection concept corresponding to the Viennese fire protection regulations in accordance with point 4 of the OIB guidelines for OIB Guideline 2 (deviations in fire protection and fire protection concepts in the version currently valid in Vienna). In addition, the visual representation of the fire protection measures in the form of a fire protection concept plan on a scale of 1:200  is provided.

• Students are able to name fire protection basics (structural, technical and organizational).

• Students are able to reproduce the relevant legal bases and protection objectives: based on the type of use, construction method, building category, escape routes and any deviations from building regulations and fire protection regulations.

• Students are able to draw sketchy submission plans (1:100) for basic fire protection considerations (escape routes and lengths, fire compartment sizes and boundaries, type of stairwells, fire behavior and fire resistance requirements for building components, door qualifications, evacuation measures).

• Students are able to create building descriptions and legends in the detailed area of fire protection.

• Students are able to create a fire protection concept in accordance with the OIB RL 2 guidelines.

• Students are able to create conceptual representations of the measures to achieve the protection goals for the permits or approvals required under public law.

• Students are able to specify the requirements of structural, defensive, organizational and technical fire protection, including applications and formulation of deviations (essential and non-essential).

• Students are able to justify deviations.

• Students are able to create a fire protection concept plan on a scale of 1:200 .

Lecture, lecture with numerous visual examples

Final exam

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• Students will be able to implement the process of designing and constructing buildings.

• Students will be able to describe major building types and their structural contexts.

• Students will be able to select and design building types according to their use.

Presentatios

Final exam: Written exams and presentation

The lecture introduces the fundamentals of building ecology and illustrates the ecological impacts of construction. Key concepts such as sustainability, resource efficiency, circular economy, and climate neutrality are discussed. A central focus is placed on the ecological assessment of building materials, components, and buildings using life cycle assessment and ecological indicators such as primary energy demand, global warming potential, and acidification potential. Students also learn how Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are developed and applied. Building on this, the course presents tools and methods for life cycle analysis and for the ecological optimization of construction projects. In addition, it addresses national and international building certification systems such as klimaaktiv, DGNB, LEED, and BREEAM. Overall, the course provides an understanding of how ecological criteria can be systematically integrated into the planning, construction, and operation of buildings.

• Students will be able to describe the ecological impacts of construction (e.g., resource consumption, energy demand, emissions, waste generation) and assess their relevance for sustainability and building ecology.

• Students will be able to explain the principles and methods of life cycle assessment (LCA) and apply ecological indicators (e.g., GWP, primary energy demand, acidification potential) to building materials, components, and buildings.

• Students will be able to identify concepts and tools of sustainable building certification and compare their evaluation dimensions (e.g., klimaaktiv, DGNB, LEED, BREEAM).

Lecture and discussion

Final exam: Written exams

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• The students are able to ensure the necessary basis for tenders and to correctly implement the requirements of the BvergG in the tender.

• The students are able to set up and structure specifications in compliance with standards and to handle the awarding process in compliance with laws and standards.

• Students will be able to complete the construction accounting process in accordance with standards.

• Students will be able to handle price conversions and variable prices in a standard and appropriate manner.

• Students will be able to evaluate and solve in-depth questions regarding the best bidder award as well as analyze and clarify in-depth questions regarding selected chapters of the Standard Service Book for Building Construction.

Lecture; exercises

Final exam: Written exams

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• Students will be able to translate and apply principles of business administration to the construction industry.

• Students will be able to structure and organize the flow of a real estate / construction project.

• The students are able to define the service profiles project development, project management, planning and ÖBA and know the essential contents, tasks, fees and responsibilities.

• Students will be able to prepare project schedules and cost determinations.

• The students are able to handle variable prices in accordance with ÖN B 2111 in a proper and standardized manner.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exam

Introduction to academic working: data collection; structuring; table of contents; citiation; comments; attachments; table of figures; bibliography; index; typeface; academic working as a project.Introduction to academic working: data collection; structuring; table of contents; citiation; comments; attachments; table of figures; bibliography; index; typeface; academic working as a project.

• Students will be able to develop scientific questions.

• Students will be able to gather materials for a scientific inquiry.

• Students will be able to create a disposition.

• Students are able to apply the formal requirements of a scientific paper (table of contents; citations; notes; appendix; list of figures and references; index; typeface).

• Students will be able to independently apply the criteria for writing scientific papers .

Lecture and exercises.

Continuous assessment: Exercises and written exam

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• Students are able to design and conceptualize constructions with wood as a building material and to make the necessary structural calculations in this regard, as well as to develop detail points and combine wood as a building material with other building materials.

• The students are able to correctly use wood as a building material in structural design.

• Students will be able to assess and evaluate wood as a building material for existing buildings and to order any necessary measures.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

Design rules for torsion

Design rules for stability

Production-oriented design principles

Design of bolted connections

Design of welded connections

Stability: Members under normal force loading

• Practice-oriented dimensioning of simple steel structures

• Dimensioning of simple details (connection technology)

• Torsion design in steel construction

Lecture and design examples

Final exam: Written final examination and distance learning,

Proportion of the overall assessment see teaching unit 1

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• Students will be able to perform the design of reinforced concrete beams when subjected to shear force and bending as well as torsion.

• Students will be able to implement reinforcement design and representation in reinforcement drawings.

• Students will be able to perform the design of plate structures when subjected to shear forces and perform the design of flat slabs against punching shear.

• Students will be able to perform the design and construction of unreinforced and lightly reinforced structural members.

• Students are able to design, dimension and construct simple components independently.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

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• Students will be able to plan and apply different methods of soil improvement (optimization of foundations).

• Students will be able to calculate soil improvement.

• Students will be able to design and calculate deep foundations.

Lecture, practice examples, self-study

Final exam: Written exams

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• Students will be able to derive modeling and associated loading from design from the design.

• Students will be able to perform the determination of dead weights from the design.

• Students will be able to determine site-specific wind loads and associated zones of effect.

• Students will be able to classify the determination of site-specific snow loads and associated zones of effect.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

1 Introduction
- Solving differential equations
- Setting up differential equations: Radioactive decay
2 1st order differential equations
- If the solution is known
- Solution curves in the directional field
- Solving the homogeneous 1st order linear differential equation
- Solving the inhomogeneous 1st order linear differential equation
3 2nd order differential equations Order differential equations
- Solution of the homogeneous linear 2nd order differential equation
- Solution of the inhomogeneous linear 2nd order differential equation
- Substitution
- Oscillations
- Forced oscillations and resonance
4 Coupled systems of differential equations

• Students can apply the basic mathematical concepts of differential calculus to differential equations (DGE) in order to classify them precisely according to type (ordinary vs. partial), order and linearity. They can explain in their own words the fundamental difference between a general, particular and singular solution as well as between initial and boundary value problems.

• Students are able to independently select and apply standard mathematical methods for ordinary differential equations in order to calculate analytical solution functions for first and second order problems. Students can mathematically formulate real physical and engineering processes (such as continuous growth processes, Newton's cooling law or mechanical vibrations) in the form of differential equations and interpret the calculated solution functions in the application context.

• Students demonstrate the ability to solve differential equations and coupled dynamic systems using computers. They can implement numerical methods (such as the Runge-Kutta method) or state-space reductions in Python, display the results graphically (e.g. directional fields or cooling curves) and verify the correctness of an assumed solution statistically/algebraically by inserting it into the differential equation. Students are able to mathematically analyze the dynamic behavior of coupled multi-body systems (e.g. multi-story buildings under dynamic load) using mass, damping and stiffness matrices. They can investigate the physical effects of excitation frequencies and structurally assess the risk of a catastrophic resonance disaster.

Lecture with numerous practical examples

Final exam: Final written examination

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• Students are able to calculate statically indeterminate systems (continuous beams ).

• Students are able to calculate statically indeterminate systems (frames).

• Students will be able to perform stress determination (torsion).

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

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• Students are able to select construction equipment and methods for individual construction tasks as well as suitable processes based on technical, economic and ecologically sustainable criteria.

• The students are able to evaluate the essential construction machines in their conception and with their application conditions and application possibilities, whereby appropriate decision criteria (e.g. performance and cost approaches, sustainability criteria) are worked out for the selection of individual construction machines and construction methods.

• Students will be able to perform simple cost calculations using school-based calculation examples.

Lecture, exercises

Final exam: Moodle Paper Pencil (Multiple Choice)

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• Students will be able to constructively understand and design carpentry roof trusses.

• Students will be able to design developed and un-developed pitched roofs.

• Students will be able to properly assess and develop doors.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exam

What means scientific writing

• Students will be able to explain the essential features of scientific texts.

• Students will be able to implement the essential features of scientific texts.

• Students will be able to transform scientific texts into a presentation.

Lecture and exercises

Continuous assessment: Exersices and written exams

m

• Students are able to work in a team to develop a structural design (structural plans, component lists, pre-dimensioning) of given building structures according to the required use.

• The students are able to document the developed design.

• The students are able to present the developed design.

m

Continuous assessment: p

m

• The students are able to link the work carried out during the professional internship with the corresponding theoretical content.

• Students will be able to discuss specific work performance during the professional internship in nacg terms,

• Students will be able to present specific work accomplishments during the professional practicum in a nacg understandable form.

none

Continuous assessment: none

m

• m

• Students are able to present the bachelor thesis.

• Students will be able to discuss the bachelor's thesis with a professional audience.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

m

• Students will be able to assess the importance of digitization in the construction industry and reflect a basic understanding of data and the need for it as the basis for successful digitization.

• Students will be able to differentiate between the steps of data use (data quality, data generation, data management, and data analysis).

• Students will be able to transition the fundamentals of cross-lifecycle data management into a conceptual understanding of databases as well as database models.

• Students will be able to understand the fundamentals of the BIM method and apply them to specific BIM objectives and BIM use cases in construction projects.

• Students will be able to interpret content of client information requirements (AIA) and a BIM execution plan (BAP), as well as assess the effort required to apply the BIM method and associated BIM objectives and use cases.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

Torsional buckling and Th.II.O., structural elements, composite structures, fatigue, production, corrosion protection and assembly, calculation, quality assurance, acceptance and tolerances

• Students are able to evaluate and calculate stability failure under bending moments (lateral-torsional buckling).

• Students are able to correctly arrange and economically use structural elements in steel construction, carry out simplified fatigue calculations and evaluate fatigue.

• Students are able to design composite beams.

Lecture with activating methods, work assignment as distance learning

Final exam: Written examination (examples and theory) and assessment of distance learning

Grading key, detailed assessment criteria and permitted aids according to the slides for the first teaching unit.

m

• Students will be able to evaluate the fundamentals of ensuring the serviceability of structures by limiting crack widths, stresses, and deformations.

• Students will be able to calculate deformations.

• Students will be able to design bracing of structures against horizontal loads.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

m

• Students will be able to identify spatial development trends and apply their implications to their own specific practice.

• The students are able to assign decision-making competences of supra-local and local spatial planning, to comprehend and to critically question them.

• Students will be able to research and apply planning principles relevant to their practice at the spatial planning level.

• Students are able to explain processes of urban development and can describe relevant parameters and actors.

• Students will be able to apply urban planning tools and methods along with their spatial and social implications.

Lecture

Continuous assessment: MC

A

• Students will be able to analyze the basic support structure of an existing building and prepare an as-built survey.

• Students will be able to provide a general project history and possible remediation measures.

• Students will be able to analyze existing structures and evaluate an existing structural system and make statements about their load-bearing capacities.

• Students will be able to recalculate individual as-built components, complete an as-built survey and a personal risk analysis.

• Students will be able to develop a phased plan for an existing building remodel.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

m

• Students are able to work in a team to develop a solution for a given complex project (student housing) involving structural design, including preliminary structural analysis and, subsequently, detailed structural analysis, building physics verifications, a fire protection concept, BIM planning, and the design of building services.

• Students are able to document the design they have developed and prepare the corresponding reports.

• The students are able to present the developed design.

Work in groups

Continuous assessment: xy

b

• Students will be able to evaluate the interrelationships between structural engineering and building services.

• Students are able to read building engineering plans and derive statements from them.

• Students will be able to perform basic pre-dimensioning in building services and evaluate it economically.

• Students will be able to identify optimization potential based on heating load, or cooling load and select appropriate systems.

• Students are able to fundamentally create or evaluate sustainable concepts for heating and air conditioning technology.

Lecture, discussions

Final exam: Written exams

m

• Students will be able to describe the railroad system.

• Students will be able to apply the physical relationships from track guidance and vehicle dynamics in the area of routing.

• Students will be able to describe the structural design of a guideway.

• Students will be able to describe the fundamentals of railroad operations.

• Students will be able to design stations and other operating facilities.

Lecture, discussions

Final exam: Written exams

m

• Students will be able to know and apply the characteristic values of traffic route construction.

• Students will be able to name the alignment elements of a transportation route and describe their use in project design.

• Students will be able to describe the structural design of a traffic route and select the appropriate construction materials.

• Students will be able to size the superstructure of a road.

• Students will be able to describe the maintenance requirements of a transportation route.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

b

• Students are able,

• Students are able,

• Students will be able to select floor and façade assemblies specific to the project.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

Presentation of the internship report with subsequent expert discussion

• Students will be able to appropriately document work performed during the professional internship.

• The students are able to present their elaborated internship report.

• Students are able to explain the results of the elaborated internship report.

Presentation

Continuous assessment: Presentation

t

• Students will be able to explain the historical development of lean management.

• Students will be able to describe the principles of Lean Management.

• Students will be able to apply the methods and tools of Lean Management.

• Students will be able to identify waste in the planning and execution phases of construction projects.

• Students will be able to describe the collaborative and cultural execution aspects of lean management.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

m

• Students will be able to perform property evaluations in a professional and appropriate manner.

• Students will be able to perform land records excerpt analysis.

• Students will be able to apply project development accounting methods.

• Students will be able to apply relevant basic tenancy law and property development contract law.

Lecture

Continuous assessment: Written exams

e

• Students will be able to describe the essential regulatory content of contracts.

• Students will be able to evaluate what circumstances need to be documented in a timely manner for projects to preserve the law.

• Students will be able to independently evaluate simple legal cases.

• Students will be able to identify legal problems early in the contract process.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

m

• The students are able to independently design simple components made of reinforced concrete.

• Students will be able to evaluate the proper execution of structures made of reinforced concrete.

• Students will be able to evaluate the mode of action of prestressed concrete.

• Students will be able to evaluate the proper execution of structures made of prestressed concrete.

Lecture; exercises

Final exam: Written exams

m

• The students are able to convert a real structure into an adequate FEM model and to design the main structural components by computer.

• Students will be able to check the plausibility of the results obtained using simple hand calculations.

• Students are able to independently design components made of reinforced concrete.

Lecture, discussion, training on structural analysis software

Continuous assessment: Exercises

m

• The students are able to calculate construction work in accordance with the relevant standards and to determine prices for construction work (wages, other).

• Students are able to correctly apply the relevant specifications (standards, guidelines, specifications) in costing and take them into account accordingly.

• The students are able to apply calculation sheets according to ÖN B 2061 in a proper and standardized manner.

• The students are able to apply the theoretically learned basics practically in the software application RIB iTWO and to independently work out a practical process of tendering - calculation - offer formation and submission.

• The students are able to handle variable prices in accordance with ÖN B 2111 in a proper and standardized manner.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

• Project Management in practice
• Overview of the Austrian construction industry
• Introduction to management and leadership
• Organization and leadership in construction companies
• Bid preparation in practice
• Work preparation - organization and construction site equipment, construction scheduling, budget planning, resource planning (own staff/equipment/subcontractors)
• Excursion: Explosive ordnance reconnaissance
• Occupational safety
• Operational construction site management - Plan review, coordination of construction processes, construction site documentation, quality control/execution defects, construction billing, technical controlling, construction income account

• The students are able to explain the concept of project management and its implementation in practice.

• The students acquire knowledge of the Austrian construction industry, the organization and processes in construction companies, as well as the basics of business accounting and the bid preparation in practice.

• The students gain an insight into the topics of management and leadership as well as the essential leadership topics in everyday life.

• The students are able to describe the essential processes in construction site management from the perspective of the construction company.

• The students are able to explain the essential tools for controlling a construction site and to apply some of them in practice.

Lecture with practical exercises.

Final exam: Partial performance practice examples, Final written exam (multiple choice)

m

• The students are able to reflect the general conditions of waste management in Austria

• Students will be able to present the goals of waste management in a differentiated manner based on construction.

• Students will be able to comply with the Waste Management Act and its regulations in a practical construction manner.

• The students are able to design processes on the construction site in terms of the requirements of a sustainable society.

• Students will be able to use recycled building materials according to construction and environmental requirements.

Lecture, discussions

Final exam: Written exams

m

• Students will be able to evaluate the importance of chemistry to civil engineering.

• Students will be able to describe basic chemistry concepts.

• Students will be able to state the manufacture and application of building materials from a chemical perspective.

• Students will be able to apply basic chemistry to prevent and identify structural damage.

• Students will be able to critically evaluate the impact of building materials on the climate crisis.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

m

• Students are able to evaluate the influence of the building envelope, building services and user behavior on the energy balance of a building.

• Students are able to consider relevant building codes and standards in the energy design of buildings.

• Students will be able to reduce the energy consumption of buildings (new construction and renovation) and evaluate ways to generate energy from the building.

• Students will be able to calculate heat transfer coefficients (U-value) and length-related heat transfer coefficient (?-value).

• Students will be able to calculate the impact of the building envelope and architecture on heating energy and cooling demand.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

m

• Students will be able to apply a basic knowledge in the design and construction and calculation of bridges.

• Students are able to design and calculate simple smaller bridge structures.

• Students will be able to calculate simple smaller bridge structures.

Lecture, discussions

Final exam: Written exams

m

• Students will be able to apply the basic knowledge from the tunneling content listed below in practice.

• Students will be able to explain definitions and terms used in the field of tunneling.

• Students will be able to participate in the course of meetings and discussions on tunneling with a basic knowledge.

• Students are able to use the basic knowledge they have acquired to pursue career paths in tunneling.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

m

• Students will be able to develop a basic understanding of hydraulics.

• Students will be able to describe the basic principles of pumps used to pump water and wastewater.

• Students will be able to describe the basic principles of water supply.

• Students will be able to reproduce the basic principles of wastewater discharge.

• Students will be able to describe the basic principles of wastewater and sludge treatment.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

m

• Students will be able to design a bridge and route a road (project task).

• Students will be able to practically apply the fundamentals of bridge and road construction.

• Students will be able to perform the necessary calculations and implement the results in the form of plans.

• Students will be able to engage in a professional discussion about the project with faculty/supervisors.

• Students are able to present the result (project elaboration) in front of the auditorium and answer technical questions.

Exercises

Final exam: Written exams

m

• Students will be able to work as part of an interdisciplinary team (civil engineers and architects) to plan a practice project from design to bid costing in the following areas: Planning Area: - Space and functional program - Architectural preliminary design - Draft and submission planning - Execution and detailed planning - Official requirements, OIB guidelines - Aspects of sustainability - building certification

• Building physics area: - Thermal insulation, shading, summer overheating - sound insulation - Energy certificate

• Construction area - Preliminary design, - Preliminary design: proof of the feasibility of the construction, - Structural design/static dimensioning, - Detailed design

• Construction Industry Area: - Schedule and Cost, - Rough schedule and cost estimate, - Construction phasing plan, - tendering, costing, bid preparation, bid review

Exercise

Final exam: E

m

• Students are able to structure and build a real estate / construction project following the rules of project management.

• The students are able to independently carry out all work steps of project management and to create the necessary documents in a professional and appropriate manner.

• Students will be able to independently create a complete project manual.

• Students will be able to complete a project according to a specified project manual.

Flipped classroom

Continuous assessment: l

r

• Students will be able to identify legal sources and legal information relevant to practice.

• After completing the course, students will be able to correctly assess the conclusion and regulatory content of employment contracts using all legal sources of labor law.

• Students are able to correctly assess rights and obligations arising from the employment relationship - such as vacation entitlements, continued payment in the event of illness, time off for nursing care, working time regulations, employee protection regulations, etc. - from both the employer's and the employee's perspective.

• Students will be able to terminate an employment relationship in a timely manner or be able to assess whether cause has been set for early termination through dismissal or early resignation.

• The students are able to handle construction-specific provisions resulting from collective bargaining agreements, BUAG and the Bad Weather Compensation Act in a legally correct manner.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams

m

• Students will be able to document circumstances in a timely manner for projects to preserve the law.

• Students will be able to independently assess legal cases as they arise.

• Students are able to apply the essential and practically relevant contents of Austrian public procurement law.

Lecture

Final exam: Multiple-Choice-Test

m

• Students will be able to correctly classify basic legal issues.

• Students are able to correctly evaluate the essential topics such as AWG, WRG, UIG, GewO, etc.

• Students will be able to assign the major substantive provisions.

• Students will be able to understand EIA as an environmental legal tool.

• Students will be able to apply common environmental law issues to a construction project.

Lecture; discussions

Final exam: Writen exams

m

• Students will be able to describe the problems that arise in the execution of major projects abroad compared to construction projects in the country

• Students will be able to describe how certain commercial and legal issues are resolved quite differently when handling major projects abroad than in Austria.

• Students will be able to understand a range of technical terms in English.

Discussions

Continuous assessment: Ongoing cooperation

Business & Construction Topics:

Business & Construction Topics:
1: GANTT charts / project management

2: Construction: Bridges: worksheets & film input
Skills: analyzing construction problems; explaining how forces work;
Vocabulary: vocabulary for building bridges

3: Presentation skills: visuals, trends, graphs: worksheets & film input
Grammar: describing trends: tenses, adjectives/adverbs, prepositions
Skills: dealing with figures, explaining graphs and charts

4: College Architecture: film input & worksheets
Skills: discussing advantages and drawbacks of innovative
designs for colleges; writing & presenting a summary

• Students will be able to explain tools and their use.

• Students will be able discuss different forms of bridges.

• Students will be able explain how forces work.

• Students will be able professionally present trends, graphs and Charts.

• Students will be able analyse advantages and drawbacks of innovative designs.

lecture, classroom discussion, pairwork, groupwork, role plays, presentations, e-learning

Final exam: Written exams

m

• Students will be able to properly structure and handle the process of processing excess cost claims.

• Students will be able to analyze and evaluate the basis of additional cost claims.

• Students are able to process and assess performance deviations in an expert manner according to the cause-consequence-effect principle.

• Students will be able to build, evaluate, and assess documentation as an essential element of claims evaluation.

• Students will be able to analyze the legal basis of additional cost claims and, based on this, assess them in terms of amount.

Lecture

Final exam: Written exams