Implementation of Digital Technologies and the Construction Industry 7,5 Credits

Course Contents

Digital technologies have come to play an increasing role among organizations in the built environment sector, but technology-related organizational change and development processes are seldom as straight forward as described by advocates for new technologies.


In order to gain an enhanced understanding of implementation of digital technologies and the Built Environment the course includes the following elements:
- Socio-technical research in new technology and information systems in built environment
- Introduction to alternative approaches to understand socio-technical systems, such as; technological determinism, innovation studies, multi-level perspective, institution theory, social constructivism, actor-network theory, critical and political perspectives
- Analysis of structures shaping the built environment sector
- Analysis of underlying structures shaping the built environment sector Industry analysis and analysis of underlying structures shaping the built environment sector

Prerequisites

The applicant must hold the minimum of a bachelor’s degree (i.e., the equivalent of 180 ECTS credits at an accredited university) with at least 90 credits in construction engineering, civil engineering, architecture engineering, lighting design or equivalent. The bachelor’s degree should comprise a minimum of 15 credits in mathematics and 7,5 credits in BIM or CAD 3D, or equivalent. Proof of English proficiency is required.

Level of Education: Master
Course code/Ladok code: TIDR23
The course is conducted at: School of Engineering Last modified 2022-12-07 14:20:47