licar2921  2019-2020  Louvain-la-Neuve

Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
2 credits
22.5 h
Q2

This biannual learning unit is being organized in 2019-2020
Teacher(s)
Masson Olivier; Vanderburgh David; Zastavni Denis;
Language
French
Main themes


Education will provide the data necessary for the recognition and understanding of the purposes and mechanisms that govern: - Public authorities' policy: territory, urban planning, infrastructures, regulations, arbitration, public and domestic construction, regulation of private initiative, - The action of private operators in construction: land, real estate, financial performance, convergences and diverging interests between private initiative and the "public good", - The action of the construction products industry: development of production chains, investments and economic opportunities, effects on the practices of construction companies, effects on public and private building initiatives, effects of product image on architects and "consumers", - Construction markets: legislation, public procurement, private procurement, study contracts, construction contracts, competition, infringements of the law, - The action of construction companies: legal constitution, size of companies, internal organisation of companies, organisation of worksites, inertia and innovation of companies, - Architectural offices: legal constitution, status of architects, legal missions and responsibilities of architects, size of offices, internal organisation of offices, inertia and innovation of offices.
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 At the end of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Identify and distinguish the political and economic logics that govern, at the global and local levels, the professions and contexts in which his disciplinary training in architecture prepares him: public authorities, private operators, industrial producers, entrepreneurs, architects,... 
  • Recognize the interactions, communities and differences, the formal and informal links that distinguish and unite the different actors in the world of building: building markets; architect-client relationships,....
 

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Faculty or entity
LOCI


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in Civil Engineering

Master [120] in Architecture and Engineering