Expert Course in Urban Planning and Sustainable Architecture

When talking about sustainable cities it is necessary to contemplate a city model that promotes different actions aimed at conservation of the environment and to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants through economic and social impulse based on the beginning of cohesion and equality. The Sustainable Urban Planning and Architecture Course establishes a learning that encompasses the requirements for the planning and building of the sustainable city. The actors linked to the field of territory intervention must, therefore, pursue these change actions to achieve the objective of transformation of conventional cities into sustainable cities.

Develop the necessary knowledge about the management, plans and territory management. Recognize the importance of initiatives and citizen participation in urban activity. Acquire knowledge about the concept of sustainable city. Promote the correct understanding of Smart Cities from the sustainability aspect applied to cities. Associate new technologies to urban management. Recognize the importance of resource management for correct sustainability of the territory. Deepen the application of sustainable architecture through constructive techniques and sustainable materials. Acquire knowledge about buildings as energy systems. Acquire knowledge about electrical self -consumption facilities with renewable energy. Analyze the relevance of home automation in energy savings. Create based on valid criteria design proposals that favor sustainability.

The work outputs offered by the course of urbanism and sustainable architecture are associated with both the private and public sector. Your knowledge will allow you to fully develop in architecture offices, in areas of sustainable design, in urban planning, social and ecological development, teaching, among others.

With the sustainable urbanism and architecture course you will obtain the foundations for developing urban and architectural intervention proposals supported by the base of sustainability. You will be able to integrate a vision of conservation of the environment and its resources to ensure the current and the next generations the right to have a healthy environment and an optimal quality of life.

The Sustainable Urban Planning and Architecture Course is aimed at various professional profiles, such as: Architects (professionals and students), teachers of the field of study, urban planners and other profiles linked to the planning, management and design of the territory and the projection and recovery of buildings.

This training is not included in the scope of official regulated training (Infant Education, Primary Education, Secondary Education, Official Professional Training FP, Baccalaureate, University Degree, Official University Master and PhD). It is therefore a complementary and/or specialization training, aimed at acquiring certain skills, skills or aptitudes of a professional nature, being able to be barely as merit in workbags and/or opposition competitions, always within the complementary training section and/or continuous training being always essential to review the specific requirements of the public labor stock of the public labor stock market.