Sustainable Construction: Skills for a New Building Culture
Dates and Deadlines
Next start of the programme: Please contact the programme manager
Sustainability Award of the Federal Ministry for Science and Research and the Food Ministry in the category of teaching and curricula
Quick Facts
- Final degree and length of programme:
- TU Graz and TU Wien certificate: 2 semesters part-time
- ECTS credit points:
- Certificate: 42
- Language of instruction: German
- Course days and times: Courses are usually blocked fortnightly on Thursday, Friday and Saturday
- Registration fee: € 10.000,- (VAT-free), this fee does not include travel, lodging or meals expenses
- Place of study: TU Graz and Vienna University of Technology
- Curriculum:
Content
You acquire comprehensive knowledge of the following areas:
- Introducing and changing the environment
- Ecological sustainability
- Economical sustainability
- Social sustainability
- Buildings and energy
- Project development and design
- Repair, maintenance and refurbishment
- Certification of buildings
Benefits of Completing this University Programme
After completing the programme, you will have the following competences:
- you will view the life cycle of buildings in a holistic manner, understanding the need for better design quality, modified construction products and construction systems.
- you understand the changes in competition and the design process, connected with sustainability in the construction sector.
- you have mastered the fundamentals of sustainable economics and use the necessary tools in building practice and construction projects.
- you are aware of the connections between building energy use and climate protection, and can issue energy certifications for buildings.
- you have the necessary specialist knowledge to complete the ÖGNI consultant examination (including ÖGNI registered professional).
- you develop and implement sustainable strategies in an interdisciplinary working environment.
Climate change is the greatest threat to sustainable development in all parts of the world and has far-reaching, unprecedented impacts. The construction sector, including buildings, is the biggest polluter, but also holds enormous potential.
Excellent architecture is sustainable. Excellent technology is architecture’s perfect partner. This combination of architecture and engineering results in houses that are forward-looking, environmentally friendly and great to live in. This is how we tackle climate change and the energy crisis.
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The programme is particularly recommended for those working in the construction industry or in the property sector – from individuals involved in project development to those responsible for property management. The programme offers a broad range of approaches to make buildings climate-resilient and to raise awareness of climate-friendly and climate-conscious materials and construction methods.
The topic of sustainability has fully captured the building sector. More and more people want to use buildings that have a positive relationship with the environment. This programme is a good starting point for dedicated people wishing to help design a better world.
My ambition is to support the development of practicable solutions as well as to encourage suggestions for applying these solutions. In the future, appropriate priority should be assigned to optimizing interfaces in construction processes as well as to ensuring the high-quality execution of these processes. I also see great added value in networking and exchanging ideas with experts. The university programme in Sustainable Construction offers the ideal conditions for this.
Target Groups
The university programme is aimed at
- planners from the construction sector (e.g. architecture, civil engineering, building services engineering),
- clients, investors (e.g. at real estate funds, project developers from larger municipalities, provincial real estate organisations, national real estate organisations, building departments at large companies).
- public administration departments
Furthermore, this programme provides postgraduate training for managers in the construction industry, who have specialised in sustainable construction, or who wish to specialise in this area.
Admission Requirements
- An internationally recognised academic degree, e.g. a bachelor’s or master’s degree in a technical subject, natural sciences, law or economics from a university or university of applied sciences in Austria or abroad
- Graduates from a non-technical field of studies also need to have 2 years of relevant professional experience.
Career Options and Qualifications
An increasing number of real estate companies are reworking their internal planning guidelines to reflect the principles of sustainable construction, and want to certify new buildings. This means that there is a dramatic increase in demand for qualified technicians. As there is no comprehensive training in sustainable construction in standard degree programmes, graduates of this study programme have a clear advantage in the job market.
Graduates work
- in all areas of building construction design,
- in project development and
- in building operation.
Information Events and Individual Advice
We are happy to provide you with information and talk to you in person. Please contact
Lucia EDELSBRUNNER
Mag.phil.
TU Graz Life Long Learning
Phone: +43 316 873 4937
lucia.edelsbrunner@tugraz.at
Application
1. Online Application
Fill in the online application.
2. Application documents
Afterwords we ask you to send the required documents (scans) by e-mail to office@nachhaltigesbauen.eu:
- Digital photo (min. 284 x 426 Pixel,:file format bmp, wbmp, jpg, jpeg, png, gif)
- CV (max. 2 pages)
- Cover letter
- proof of school graduation and academic degree
- proof of former inscriptions at Austrian universities
- copy of passport
3. Application Interview
You will be invited to an interview with the programme director.
Programme Directors
TU GRAZ
Alexander PASSER
Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. MSc
Phone: +43 316 873 5250
alexander.passer@tugraz.at
TU WIEN
Karin STIELDORF
Ass.Prof.i.R. Projektass. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.
Phone: +43 1 58801 253441
karin.stieldorf@tuwien.ac.at
