The aim of Special Topics in Building Technology course is to have knowledge to the new graduate students about program, advisors and professions. In the next stages of education, to be helpful to the decisions about selection of advisor, courses and subject of thesis in the process of being known the general framework of the program and meeting with the advisors.
Prerequisite(s)
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Corequisite(s)
Course Code Course Name…
Special Requisite(s)
The minimum qualifications that are expected from the students who want to attend the course.(Examples: Foreign language level, attendance, known theoretical pre-qualifications, etc.)
- All sources related with construction technology
- Foster, J. S., (2000) Structure and Fabric, 6th Ed. Longman, London.
- Güner, M. S., Yüksel, A., (2001) Yapı Teknolojisi, 5. Bsk. Aktif Yayınevi, İstanbul.
-Açıkel, D. A., Altın, M., Dorum, A., (2009) Yapı Teknolojisi, 3. Bsk. Nobel Yayın Dağıtım, Ankara.
- Deplazes, A., (2005) Constructing Architecture, Materials Processes Structures, 1st Ed. Birkhauser, Basel.
-Allen, E., Iano, J., (2009) Fundamentals of Building Construction, Materials and Methods, 5th Ed. John Wiley and Sons, New Jersey.
Systems approach; Building Production Systems; Development process of building production. Submission of homework topics.
Oral presentation, discussion
4. Week
Rationalizing traditional building production systems
Oral presentation, discussion
5. Week
Homework submission and presentation
Submission and evaluation
6. Week
Rationalizing traditional building production systems
Oral presentation, discussion
7. Week
Building Production Systems with prefabricated elements
Oral presentation, discussion
8. Week
Building Production Systems with prefabricated elements
Oral presentation, discussion
9. Week
Open Buildings
Oral presentation, discussion
10. Week
Sustainable construction
Oral presentation, discussion
11. Week
Homework submission and Student presentation
Presentation, discussion and evaluation
12. Week
Student presentation
Presentation, discussion and evaluation
13. Week
Student presentation
Presentation, discussion and evaluation
14. Week
Student presentation
Presentation, discussion and evaluation
15. Week
16. Week
17. Week
Final Exam
Assessment
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations
1
70
Final Exam
1
30
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Understanding the principles of environmental systems’ design such as day lighting and artificial illumination, acoustics, active and passive heating and cooling, indoor air quality, and embodied energy; including the use of appropriate performance assessment tools.
PO-2
Understanding time management and control, cost planning and control, risk management, approaches, models and techniques to improve organizational / management effectiveness in project and construction management.
PO-3
Understanding classic and contemporary management theories and human relationship in management to improve management effectiveness in beginning, design and construction processes of a project.
PO-4
Understanding the basic principles of building materials and components’ design and utilized in the appropriate selection of construction technology in building production process and ability to be aware of their relationships.
PO-5
Ability to direct the experience gained from construction management and technology to new fields and ability to generate strategies.
PO-6
Ability to transfer and apply knowledge according to construction management and technology to the beginning of project, design and construction processes.
PO-7
Ability to use the theoretical and practical knowledge of the field related, referring to undergraduate competence.
PO-8
Ability to conduct research, examination, interpretation; to use adequate techniques and produce original results in the field of construction management and technology.
PO-9
Competence for analyzing, interpreting and establish relations within the framework of construction management and technology with the project and construction process.
PO-10
Competence for conducting an original academic/scientific study.
PO-11
Competence for making strategic decisions of architectural design projects, in the field of construction management and technology, and generating original solutions.
PO-12
Competence for presenting a work – made individually or within a group – systematically, in a foreign language, using the required computer programs, oral written and visual.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
Understanding building production systems
LO-2
Understanding sustainable material
LO-3
Ability to use the experience gained at the undergraduate level by integrating with the new knowledge
