259.445 Elements of Building Construction
This course is in all assigned curricula part of the STEOP.
This course is in at least 1 assigned curriculum part of the STEOP.

2019W, VU, 2.5h, 3.5EC, to be held in blocked form
TUWEL

Properties

  • Semester hours: 2.5
  • Credits: 3.5
  • Type: VU Lecture and Exercise

Learning outcomes

After successful completion of the course, students are able to understand relevant aspects of building construction on a detailed level. Thereby, holistic, comprehensive, process-guided tectonic thinking plays a major role.

This course focuses on formal representations of constitutive elements of building construction. Selected topics of the current practice of building construction planning will be discussed. Thereby the role of contemporary planning tools and knowledge¿based design and construction will be emphasized, such as Building Information modelling and performance¿guided building design. Students are expected to gather experience in the application of building construction principles as required in a wide range of use cases (Building Performance Modeling, Design Decision Support, etc.).

Subject of course

The course contains a theory component and an exercise part. The lecture part
introduces to the fundamental elements of building construction based on contemporary practice and state¿of¿the¿art tools. Current challenges and trends will be considered in the specific definition of each semester's theoretical foci. In the exercise part, participating students will be asked to specifically approach a specific area of building construction, which is to be subjected to representational inquiries and numeric analyses. 

Teaching methods

  • course in english language
  • theory part ==> assemble knowledge about building construction
  • practice part ==> detailling of building construction

Mode of examination

Immanent

Additional information

Schedule Winterterm 19/20:

  • KickOff: Thursday 17.10.2019, 12:00 - 13:00 IEMAR
  • Meeting 31.10.2019, 12:00 - 14:00, IEMAR
  • Meeting 28.11.2019, 12:00 - 14:00, IEMAR
  • Meeting 12.12.2019, 12:00 - 14:00, IEMAR
  • Meeting 09.01.2020, 12:00 - 14:00, IEMAR

Contact:

only via lecture2593@tuwien.ac.at  (Subject: 259445 - and a short wording about the needed help/information)

Lecturers

Institute

Course dates

DayTimeDateLocationDescription
Mon14:00 - 19:0014.10.2019 IEMARReplacement Reservierung
Thu12:00 - 13:0017.10.2019 IEMARElements of Building Construction - Intro
Thu12:00 - 14:0031.10.2019 IEMAREBC Meeting
Thu12:00 - 14:0028.11.2019 IEMAREBC Meeting
Thu12:00 - 14:0012.12.2019 IEMAREBC-Meeting
Thu12:00 - 14:0009.01.2020 IEMAREBC - Meeting
Course is held blocked

Examination modalities

  • presence in class.
  • participation.
  • timely delivery of high-qualitative assignements.

Course registration

Begin End Deregistration end
07.10.2019 00:30 31.10.2019 15:00 31.10.2019 15:00

Registration modalities

This lecture is in english language and is intented for graduate (Master) students of Building Science, Architecture, or Civil Engineering. Students of other curricula may send an email to lecture2593@tuwien.ac.at to illustrate their interest in a short (3-5 sentence) explanation

Precondition

The student has to be enrolled for at least one of the studies listed below

Curricula

Study CodeObligationSemesterPrecon.Info
066 444 Building Science and Technology Not specified

Literature

No lecture notes are available.

Previous knowledge

Interest about the content and willingness to invest some time and work on deliverables.

Miscellaneous

Language

English