Environmental and Sustainable Building Engineering

Educational objectives

The course in Digital Modeling for Architecture reflects the issues already discussed during the first year of Descriptive Geometry and Architecture Drawing of the Degree in Sustainable Building Engineering on the geometric shape of space and built on the fundamentals of solid geometry as a basis for defining the abstract geometric model. The different ways of the geometric model representation define the basic tools available to engineer who works in the field of sustainable buildings. The representation is understood here in both the canonical form of two-dimensional graphical model in more modern form of 3D computer model and BIM.
The course has the goal to revisit in an organic way the concepts of solid geometry that have direct application in the architectural design and in the existing buildings knowledge (architectural survey) providing the tools and knowledge base to operate through the digital model.

Educational objectives

The course provide basic knowledge about Remote Sensing and how it is applied to the study and monitoring of Earth’s surface and its environment. At the end of the course the student is able through GIS software and Remote Sensing Imagery to acquire qualitative and quantitative information about the territory at different scale and its change during the time.
Course Goals
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to....
1. Define and describe basic remote sensing application
2. Analyse and explain remote sensing purposes, advantages, and limitations.
3. Describe basic characteristics of remote sensing imagery.
4. Use the most appropriate satellite imagery to acquire qualitative and quantitative information for a specific application
5. Use GIS software to data processing and analysis
6. Use LiDAR data for the production of Digital Terrain Models

Educational objectives

The course provide basic knowledge about Remote Sensing and how it is applied to the study and monitoring of Earth’s surface and its environment. At the end of the course the student is able through GIS software and Remote Sensing Imagery to acquire qualitative and quantitative information about the territory at different scale and its change during the time.
Course Goals
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to....
1. Define and describe basic remote sensing application
2. Analyse and explain remote sensing purposes, advantages, and limitations.
3. Describe basic characteristics of remote sensing imagery.
4. Use the most appropriate satellite imagery to acquire qualitative and quantitative information for a specific application
5. Use GIS software to data processing and analysis
6. Use LiDAR data for the production of Digital Terrain Models

Educational objectives

The course provide basic knowledge about Remote Sensing and how it is applied to the study and monitoring of Earth’s surface and its environment. At the end of the course the student is able through GIS software and Remote Sensing Imagery to acquire qualitative and quantitative information about the territory at different scale and its change during the time.
Course Goals
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to....
1. Define and describe basic remote sensing application
2. Analyse and explain remote sensing purposes, advantages, and limitations.
3. Describe basic characteristics of remote sensing imagery.
4. Use the most appropriate satellite imagery to acquire qualitative and quantitative information for a specific application
5. Use GIS software to data processing and analysis
6. Use LiDAR data for the production of Digital Terrain Models

Educational objectives

The elective courses aim at completing the student's knowledge to operate with a full awareness in the field of civil-building-environmental engineering and also to develop competences within specific sectors so as to provide two different curricula: one focused on the building itself, deepening its design and construction aspects, and one built around the building complex, without overlooking the structural and technological fundamentals, but including the services and infrastructures within make the framework where it must be inserted.

Educational objectives

The course aims to introduce students in the context of HBIM, the declination of Building Information Modeling specifically designed to adapt to the activities related to the knowledge, restoration, transformation and management of the built and historical built heritage of which our country is particularly rich.

Educational objectives

The course aims to introduce students in the context of HBIM, the declination of Building Information Modeling specifically designed to adapt to the activities related to the knowledge, restoration, transformation and management of the built and historical built heritage of which our country is particularly rich.

Educational objectives

The course aims to introduce students in the context of HBIM, the declination of Building Information Modeling specifically designed to adapt to the activities related to the knowledge, restoration, transformation and management of the built and historical built heritage of which our country is particularly rich.

Educational objectives

The objectives of the course are to provide the student knowledge to plan and manage skills in the context of treatment plants for both municipal solid waste and waste water from both civil and industrial origin. The notions necessary for the design and management of technologies are therefore provided to the student through concepts relating to biological, chemical and physical processes that form the basis of the treatment of both municipal solid waste and waste water.

The course provides the student with the basic processes and technologies to deal with problems related to the treatment of waste water and solid urban waste. The student will have at the end of the course a solid background to manage both the design phase and the management of liquid and solid waste treatment and disposal (knowledge and understanding). During the course a design will be developed either of a purification plant or of a waste collection system in an urban environment (applying knowledge) in which the design choices will be faced by the student (making judgments).

Educational objectives

The objective of the course of Structural Dynamics is to provide the tools for the characterization of the dynamic response, in time-domain and in frequency-domain, of linear structures subjected to harmonic loads and base motions.

In particular, single- and multi-degrees of freedom discrete systems, including the classical dissipative effects of viscous type and periodic forcing terms, are analyzed both in the time and the frequency domain. Modal analysis techniques are then adopted to study the dynamic response of discrete systems subjected to generic loading condition with particular attention to the study of the response to assigned boundary displacement. Response spectrum analysis is then illustrated, and theoretically discussed, to study the structural response to seismic loads. Basics of modal analysis of one-dimensional continuum structural elements are given in the last part of the course. Finally, rudiments for the implementation in “ad hoc” computational software of the analytical methods taught in the course are provided to the students.

Educational objectives

The elective courses aim at completing the student's knowledge to operate with a full awareness in the field of civil-building-environmental engineering and also to develop competences within specific sectors so as to provide two different curricula: one focused on the building itself, deepening its design and construction aspects, and one built around the building complex, without overlooking the structural and technological fundamentals, but including the services and infrastructures within make the framework where it must be inserted.

Educational objectives

The course is aimed to provide the elemental tools to design earth retaining structures as well as shallow and deep foundations. Both the theoretical and the technological aspects are treated. Different stages of designing are discussed starting from in situ investigation, soil characterisation and soil profile definition, to end up with the choice of the most convenient solution considering both serviceability and ultimate limit states.

Students will be able: to design earth retaining structures; to evaluate the bearing capacity of shallow foundations, the settlements induced by structure self-weight; and to calculate the bearing capacity of a single pile or a pile group, under both axial and lateral loads.

Educational objectives

The final exam consists of the discussion of the thesis of Degree and involves the acquisition of 17 credits.
The thesis, with interdisciplinary and original content, is a pivotal moment for the verification of the knowledge acquired by the student and his ability to deepen and apply independently and original way the specific aspects of the modification of the territory for the purpose of settlement , the protection and enhancement of its environmental features.
It will be carried out under the supervision of a teacher among those of the Degree (Rapporteur) and with the concurrence of at least a second teacher, expert in a discipline different from that of the rapporteur.
The final test is intended to evaluate the thesis developed by the candidate and the possession of appropriate communication skills, in reference to the specific learning outcomes.

Educational objectives

Provide the students with methods and tools to facilitate integration into the world of work.