Presentation of the Degree
The technical architect must respond to the central role of his profession, the management of work, ensuring quality, safety and health at work, willing to be on a working footing managing all processes related to his execution, with a marked vision of project manager and budget. A qualification has therefore been proposed with high content and standards of demand in basic and compulsory matters. Matter like construction, project management, activity management of construction companies, building quality, health and safety.
Why do you have to study this degree at EPS?
Students of this degree receive a solid theoretical training that is complemented by work applied in the laboratories of the school (building, materials, physics, etc.). In addition, many work visits and different companies in the sector are carried out throughout the course of the studies and technical talks are regularly organised by professionals of recognised prestige. As a singular point, the Technical Architecture and Building Studies plan of the EPS includes the realization of compulsory practices in one of the companies with which the school is agreed.
This degree will apply a pioneering dual training methodology to state territory, which will allow the student who wishes to combine training in university classrooms and the professional environment through a contract with the company.
To instrument the Degree in Technical Architecture and Building, which is organized in a presential way, the Superior Polytechnic School offers:
- Upper Degrees Formatives (CFGS) to the Grade in Technical Architecture and Building. Here you can see the Convalidations of the corresponding form cycle.
- Reduced groups that make it easier to exchange with the teacher and more accurate monitoring of the work done by the student.
- On-going evaluation.
- Block curriculum of subjects corresponding to the same academic year
- Individualized tutors. In the EPS each student has a tutor/a assigned to whom they can address any issues related to their studies. Within the Nestor Tutories program, student care mechanisms are established.
- Incorporation of active methodologies such as BIM (Building Information Modeling) technology or Virtual/Augmented Reality.
- Tutoried practices in compulsory companies that allow for the insertion of graduates (105 annual trainee offers). The possibility of implementing these practices at international level.
- End Grade work with tutoring and continuous evaluation. The possibility of making TFGs within the company.
Job opportunities
Graduates in Technical Architecture and Building of the Higher Polytechnic School, according to data from the latest published survey on job insertion in Catalonia of the AQU, Work Report 2023 of graduates and graduates achieve a 96% job integration
The profession for which graduates are trained once they have obtained the title is that of Architect/a technic/a (ORDEN ECI/3855/2007).
Graduates in Technical Architecture and Building enjoy a wide and diverse field of work in civil engineering and public work. Its activity is oriented towards projection, execution, and control of the construction of the work; therefore, it is common to find the professional in construction in both the construction company and the consultant. The work's monitoring, maintenance and conservation tasks are also part of this professional's performance. This task is often carried out by the administrations: central, autonomous and local.
Graduates in Technical Architecture and Building are professionals capable of:
- Lead the material execution of the building works.
- Compose studies and health and safety plans.
- Technical activities of calculation, valuations, plans lifting in solar and buildings, etc.
- Redaction of technical projects within the framework of its competences (rehabilitation, etc.).
- Manage new building technologies and quality in building.
- Direct and manage the use, conservation and maintenance of buildings.
- Technically based on the manufacture of materials and elements for building.
- Managing the property process as a whole.