MSc in Building Engineering
Turin, Italy
MSc
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English, Italian
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 3,000 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* the annual fee might vary from €161 to around €3000, according to the student’s citizenship
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Key Summary
By joining the Master's degree program in Building Engineering with passion and perseverance, you will build a future full of opportunities in different professional fields of the construction industry.
As a building engineer, you will be aware of the complexity of the building system (at both subsystem and environmental level) and you will be able to develop projects in the construction sector. The building engineer also directs the realization of new building works and the recovery of existing constructions, in traditional and industrialized building sites, coordinating the work of other specialists. The building engineer works in the fields of:
- Management and Organization of Real Estate Transactions;
- Design, Management, and Organization of The Building Process (about Materials, Products, and Components);
- Survey and Evaluation of The Building Assets;
- Construction Site Safety According to Legislative Decree No. 81/2008;
- Fire Safety According to The Fire Prevention Code (ministerial Decree of August 3, 2015).
The Objective of The Programme Is to Teach Students How To Define New Management, Prevention, and Intervention Models Based on A Multidisciplinary Approach that Allows them to Analyse, Synthesize, Design, and Verify the Areas of Action, Using the Most Innovative Technologies Starting from A Thorough Knowledge of The Past.
Green Building
Year 1
- Knowledge of the built heritage in the era of climate changes
- Theory of Structures
- Energy performance design and indoor environmental quality
- Integrated Design for Sustainable Building
- Green water for sustainable building
- Project and site management
- Structural Design
Year 2
- Building Engineering Courses (view Full curriculum )
- Elective courses (view Full curriculum )
- Thesis
Resilience of the built environment
Year 1
- Knowledge of built heritage in the era of climate change
- Structural theory
- Earthquake engineering and resilience of urban systems
- Integral design in the resilience of buildings
- Construction site and project management
- Geotechnical design for building resilience
- Evaluation of investments for urban transformations
Year 2
- Building Engineering Courses (view Full curriculum )
- Free credits (view Full curriculum )
- Thesis
What will you learn?
The program has a multidisciplinary solution-oriented approach and is divided into two learning areas or specialist tracks that respond to two specific needs:
- climate change triggers increasingly serious and frequent risks for the territory, for man, and also for the economy;
- our building heritage is fragile and must be able to respond to these changes in a resilient way over time.
Depending on the specialist track you have chosen, in Year 1 you will take the following compulsory courses:
- Construction resilience, Italian-taught
- Green building, English-taught
In both specialist tracks, in Year 2 you will be able to tailor your study plan to your needs and interests by choosing some optional courses. On top of working on your thesis project, you will be able to choose 4 courses from the course catalog in Building engineering and up to a maximum of 3 optional courses (free choice credits).
You will be able to work as a freelance building engineer, individually or within a team of professionals, provided that you pass the State Examination for Professional Practice (Esame di Stato) and register in the Register of Engineers – section A.
Alternatively, you will be able to choose from a variety of career fields working as an employee or consultant in:
- Building Contractors;
- Construction Industries;
- Public Bodies;
- Private and Public Companies;
- Engineering Companies.
How will you learn it?
The Master’s degree program is taught in Italian and/or English.
You will take part in face-to-face lectures, and practicals in the classroom and computer and experimental laboratories, also using digital communication platforms.
You will be able to improve your background with an internship and/or a period of study abroad and participate in the activities of the Student Teams with specific objectives.
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