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Description of the title
The Master’s Degree in Building Rehabilitation and Sustainability aims to respond to the demand for professionals in the construction, building and architecture sector, specialized in the integral rehabilitation of buildings. In today’s market, competent technicians are required, with knowledge and cutting-edge tools in rehabilitation techniques, materials and processes that guarantee energy efficiency, constructive and structural stability, ensuring the sustainability of the entire process, allowing an orderly and effective maintenance of the building.
This Master’s Degree is oriented to building in general, highlighting the large stock of built housing we have, most of which is highly inefficient and unsustainable. Therefore, it is a master’s degree specifically oriented to rehabilitation where the SDGs and the circular economy are referents. The master’s degree will provide graduates with specific and highly technological training in this area of specialization to improve, expand and complement their technical knowledge and thus be able to effectively and efficiently manage the great challenge posed by this emerging professional sector.
Objectives of the degree
The main objective of this Master is to train professionals in the field of integral rehabilitation of buildings taking into account sustainability and circular economy. This specialization is achieved by addressing aspects ranging from knowledge of survey techniques, diagnosis and evaluation of injuries, to the study and implementation of the latest methods and techniques of intervention in construction. Aspects that promote structural durability and the optimization of construction solutions will be analyzed, with special emphasis on energy efficiency, installations and sustainability, essential aspects for the regeneration of our real estate assets. This general objective of the master’s degree is aligned with the provisions of several SDGs (3-7-11) favoring economic, social and environmental sustainability.
Career opportunities
In the field of construction management, there is a demand for specialists in specific areas of knowledge that are directly related to the contents of the master’s degree.
- Specialists in BIM Management and specialized BIM modelers in facilities and energy consumption simulation.
- Technicians specialized in the use of advanced graphic survey techniques for the knowledge, study and analysis of buildings.
- Technicians specialized in sustainability and building life cycle analysis.
- Specialists in integral rehabilitation of buildings.
- Building energy efficiency technicians.
- Construction managers and building project technicians who master industrialization processes for the execution of works.
- Technicians with knowledge in new technologies (intelligent buildings, IoT).
- Technicians specialized in injury analysis, building diagnostics and rehabilitation techniques.
Aimed primarily at
The master’s degree is designed for those professionals interested in advancing their specialization within the building, architecture and construction sector.
- Graduates in Technical Architecture.
- Graduates in Fundamentals of Architecture.
- Graduates in Public Works Engineering.
- Graduates in Civil Engineering.
- Graduates in equivalent degrees.
Structure of the master’s degree
Credits: 60 ECTS
Mandatory:48 ects |Electives:3 ects |External internships:3 ects |Final Master’s thesis (TFM):6 ects
Module 1. Mandatory Module :48 ects mandatory
Subject:Experimental Methods in Rehabilitation
Minimum credits: 12 | Character: Mandatory
Subject:Sustainability and Energy Efficiency in Buildings
Minimum credits: 6 | Character: Mandatory
Subject:Construction Technology in Rehabilitation
Minimum credits: 9 | Character: Obligatory
Subject:Building Installations
Minimum credits: 12 | Character: Mandatory
Subject:Projects and Technical Management
Minimum credits: 9 | Character: Obligatory
Module 2. Elective Module :3 ects mandatory
Subject:Elective
Minimum credits: 3 | Character: Elective
Module 3. External academic internships :3 ects mandatory
Subject:External academic internships
Minimum credits: 3 | Character: Mandatory External Practice
Module 4. Master’s thesis :6 ects mandatory
Subject:Master’s thesis
Minimum credits: 6 | Character: Final Degree Project
Internships
In this subject a maximum of 3 ECTS can be carried out in external curricular internships.
This degree includes external academic internships in companies (3ECTS) in the second semester.
Taking into account the Regulations for the recognition and transfer of credits in official bachelor’s and master’s degrees of the UPV, in its article 5, a maximum of 3 ECTS of the subject of external academic practices will be recognized for work experience, after study and approval of the CAT, provided that it is accredited in a reliable and sufficient manner that such professional and work experience is closely related to the knowledge, skills and abilities of the official university degree.
The type of professional experience that may give rise to credit recognition is linked to the professional profiles of graduates of degrees in the fields of knowledge of Architecture, Construction, Building and Urban Planning and Civil Engineering.
Here you can consult the Regulations establishing the general conditions and regulation of external academic internships at the UPV: External academic internship regulations
Research and access to Ph.
The Master’s faculty has an extensive research background, thanks to the multidisciplinary approach of the Master, which integrates state-of-the-art knowledge and tools in surveying techniques, rehabilitation and diagnostic techniques, installations, materials, processes or life cycle analysis, among other lines.
Students will have the opportunity to join related doctoral programs.
Facilities and laboratories
The spaces in which the teaching of the master’s degree will take place will be the classrooms of building 1C where there are 3 classrooms dedicated to teaching on the second floor, three teaching laboratories on the first floor, one of them equipped with computers and spaces for meetings, seminars and defense of academic papers.
On the other hand, building 1B houses the drawing classrooms and laboratories where some of the practices of the Master’s program will be carried out (Construction Laboratories, Materials Laboratories, Installations Laboratories, Electrochemistry Laboratory, Mathematics Laboratory and Physics Laboratory).
The school also has, among other spaces, the following:
- 2 free computer classrooms and 5 computer laboratories for teaching.
- 2 seminars
- Graduate classroom
- Aula Magna
- Library
Master’s Thesis
The Master’s Thesis of the Master’s Degree in Building Rehabilitation and Sustainability is a module and a subject that is taught during the second semester and has a teaching assignment of 6 ECTS credits.
The general framework that regulates the conditions by which it will be governed will be the one established in the Regulations of Final Degree and Master’s Degree Projects of the Universitat Politècnica de València approved by the Governing Council on 07/21/2022.
The module that includes the TFM, research work or professional specialization, (6 ECTS) will allow students to integrate the knowledge and consolidate the skills and competences acquired.
Collaborating companies and more
There is close contact between the Master’s program management and other entities and companies with which we collaborate and receive information on the needs of the sector. Conferences and extracurricular activities are frequently organized so that students and professors can broaden their knowledge and horizons.
There are shared lines of work and frequent collaborations with state public research institutes such as the Instituto de Ciencias de la Construcción Eduardo Torroja (IETcc-CSIC), with institutes and research centers of the Valencian Community (Agencia Valenciana de la Innovación -AVI-, Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación de Reconocimiento Molecular y Desarrollo Tecnológico -IDM-, Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Ciencia y Tecnología del Hormigón – ICITECH-, Centro de investigación. Architecture, Heritage and Management for Sustainable Development – PEGASO-), with public interest foundations subject to private law such as the Valencian Institute of Building (IVE), with entities and centers of recognized prestige in the construction sector (Fundación Laboral de la Construcción), CEVISAMA (Feria Valencia), with associations of the sector (Federación Valenciana de la Construcción), with associations of the sector (Federación Valenciana de la Construcción), with associations of the sector (Federación Valenciana de la Construcción), with associations of the sector (Federación Valenciana de la Construcción), with sector associations (Federación Valenciana de Empresarios de la Construcción -FECEC-, Asociación de Empresarios de Selección y Reciclaje de Residuos de la Construcción y de la Industria -ARCI-), as well as with leading product manufacturers such as SIKA, Mapei, Kerakoll, Projar, Tejas Borja, Buitec, Ubiko and construction and engineering companies such as Bertolín, Itercon, Edicover, among others.
On the other hand, there are currently several active chairs at the ETSIE (Technical Architecture Chair, Housing Observatory Chair, Bertolín Chair) that promote the generation of knowledge and research, so they are another opportunity for students of the master’s degree by enabling the development of activities that promote disciplinary transversality.
