After successful completion of the course, students are able to..

- analyze the legal situation of waste management systems

- design waste sampling campaigns based on statistics

- establish waste management concepts for industries

- analyze and evaluate waste management processes and systems

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Historical view on waste management and current situation: European and national laws and standards; waste types, amounts and properties; characterisation methods for waste (incl. sampling and sampling theory); important recycling and disposal technologies (thermal treatment, mechanical and biological treatment,  recycling, and landfilling). In addition to technical aspects of waste management also economic and ecological  aspects are presented and discussed.

- Calculation of exercises

- Discussion of case studies

Assigment to the Master programme "Building Science" (Code: 066 505):

Module 1 in the Specialisation "Water and Resources"
Module 3 in the Additional Education

The presentation of our courses for the summer term 2020 will take place on March 3, 2020 at 09:30, lecture room AD0117, Entrance Resselgassse3, via ramp to staircase 5, 1st floor.
Participation is not mandatory.

For a positive grading, both, the exercises (usually 4 different exercises) as well as the written exam, need to be passed. For the grading, the results of the exercises and the final exams are weighted in a ratio of 40:60.