Technics for Territorial Design and Management

Professional Degree Course

 
 

Location: Ancona
Access: Planned at level locally

Order: L-P01
Type: First Cycle Degree (3 years)

 


 
 

The course of study in short


 

The degree programme in Technics for Territorial Design and Management is a three-years cycle professionalising programme, afferent to the degree class L-P01 “Technical Professions for Construction and Territory”. This degree programme aims at providing students the necessary skills to prepare them for the profession of a qualified technician in the construction, civil infrastructures, and territorial management fields. Access to the course is locally programmed. Students can be admitted after passing a selective test, which will produce a ranking. The ranking list will be used for candidate admission till the number of maximum available positions is reached. To participate at the test, students must possess a secondary school diploma or an equivalent certificate acquired abroad.

The degree programme is conceived to train students that will immediately enter the world of work after three years of study. The enrolment to a master degree does not represent a natural outcome for this particular type of degree programme. Graduate technicians can work both as freelancers or as employees in private or public companies.

The programme is structured so as to provide basic knowledge as well as professionalising skills aiming at training technicians with strong competencies in real estate appraisal, topography, construction safety, territorial management, economics, and law already from the first year.

The course provides training activities in these main areas:

Basic training: this area aims at strengthening students’ technical backgrounds to provide them with the correct methodological approach to solve issues concerning mathematics, physics, and statistics.
Representation: this area will provide knowledge on construction, and building representation, technical drawing and survey, parametric modeling and BIM.
Building constructions: training provides the basic knowledge related to the main techniques on architectural and urbanistic design, with particular attention to building safety and health assessment, from a technical and procedural point of view.
Environment: this area aims at providing knowledge related to topographical surveys of building, territorial, and infrastructural constructions. This area provides knowledge for the control of changes in regional planning due to social and economic developments. With regards to this particular training area, students will learn how to evaluate the compatibility of infrastructures with their related environmental risks and/or socio-economic implications.
Appraisal and legal-administrative management: this area aims at developing knowledge in real estate appraisal and economical aspects, integrated with practical workshops on this area. Moreover, this area provides the necessary knowledge for the technical, administrative and procedural assistance in the appraisal operation.
During the training, students will acquire appropriate knowledge and comprehension of the English language or, at least, of another European language, in written and oral forms.

One of the most important parts of the programme is represented by laboratory activities which will be carried out in qualified facilities such as technical secondary school laboratories. Laboratory workshops will focus on geomatics technics, administrative procedures, appraisal and construction design. In the last part of the programme, a considerable number of training credits are devoted to internships in private professional practice. To conduct a period of study abroad, students can benefit from the international study program, provided by Università Politecnica delle Marche. Notwithstanding the conventional teaching methodologies, the degree programme is supported by e-learning platforms (Moodle – Learning Management System).

 

Professional profile and employment opportunities


 

Technics for Territorial Design and Management    

Role in a work context:

Graduates from the programme in Technics for Territorial Design and Management will take care of territory construction and management. They will be able to deal with topographical and cartographical surveys of environmental data, also in digital form. They will be able to contribute to, or carry out in full autonomy, procedures for the evaluation of real estate assets and the territory and manage all the activities related to the administration and update of cadastral, state property and local institution database. Moreover, they will be able to take care of the correct application of the legislation and safety procedures in construction processes, health of buildings and technical and administrative procedures of environmental management. Finally, they will have the skills to understand and control the transformations brought by engineering works. To this end, they will be able to take care of the assessment of plants and infrastructures functional to environmental development. Once they have obtained the degree, graduates can enrol in the the corresponding professional register (Collegi dei Geometri and Geometri Laureati).

Skills associated with the role: 

The skills provided by the professional degree programme focus on four main areas:

- “Topography”: graduate technicians will have the knowledge of the main tools and techniques for topographical surveys of buildings, graphical rendering of site, building and infrastructure plans (railway lines, hydraulic plants, etc.);

- “Real estate appraisal and assessment”: graduate technicians will be able to estimate the market value of estate assets and provide technical, procedural and normative assistance for property evaluations;

- “Safety”: graduate technicians will have the knowledge of safety regulations to be applied to business processes in general and construction operations in particular; in addition, they will be able to assess, analyse and adapt building safety and health conditions;

- “Regional planning and management”: graduate technicians will be able to analyse urban and territorial transformation processes and contribute to urban and environmental planning and design, also evaluating the consequences of settlement actions and territorial transformations on the environment.

Besides, the graduates will be able to work independently in work teams and interact with the experts in other areas, such as civil and building engineering, and constructions safety, using a proper technical language and basic knowledges.

  Occupational opportunities:

The degree programme is conceived to train students that will immediately enter the world of work after three years of study. The enrolment to a master degree does not represent a natural outcome for this particular type of degree programme.

Graduate technicians can work both as freelancers or as employees in private or public companies, with the aim to:

- perform property valuations in compliance with current standards and technical consultancies related to real estate management and splitting;

- diagnose the conservation state and compliance with health and safety requirements of buildings and design possible upgrade interventions;

- measure, represent and protect the environment;

- manage and coordinate building processes of medium complexity safely;

- contribute to the analysis of urban and regional structures, also by elaborating urban and territorial planning and management acts;

- manage administrative procedures to support interventions on buildings and the territory. 

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