Guia docente 2020_21 Escola de Enxeñaría de Minas e Enerxía

Construction works, on-site layout and processes

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Urbanism and land planning	What is the urbanism. The origins of the land planning. The land planning in Spain. Legal aspects of the ground. Town planning. Consequences of the urbanization on the territory. Basic principles of the bioclimatic town planning. Analysis of the historical background. Current situation and urban pathologies. The administrative structure by means of Geographical Information Systems.
Works, survey stakeout, movements of earths and management of the construction activity	The project. The process of bidding. The construction companies. Planning and management of a work. Execution and control of Works, agents. Activities related with the execution of a work. Survey stakeout. Definition and procedure. Instrumentation. Survey stakeout of points and alignements. Planimetric & altimetric methods for survey stakeout. Linear surveying, general considerations. Linear profiles, methods. Trasversal profiles and transversal sections. Slides. Volumetric measurements. Earth-moving.
Bioclimatic architecture and environmental conditioning.	The psychometry how base of environmental conditioning. The hygrothermal welfare and the inner conditions. The thermal behaviour of the material constructive. The building and safe energy. Design rules for winter conditions. Design rules for summer conditions. The thermal inertia.
Systems and construction material	Introduction of building materials. Materials: Stone, Ceramic, Binder, Organic, Metallic. Mortar & concrete.