Digital Transform. and Sustain in Construction and Real Estate Industry
Component code / course code: BI-24.1
Semester: winter / summer
ECTS credits: 5
Lecture hours per week (SWS): 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Wamsler
Prerequisites:
Course Module 13 "Fundamentals of Digital Transformation."
Qualification objectives:
Students are able to present and critically examine the current status of the construction and real estate industry in terms of innovations and digital transformation. The students know the actors in the aforementioned environment and can classify roles and changes in competences. Innovation approaches of companies in the construction and real estate industry can be evaluated. The sustainability requirements are known to the students and they deal with them. This enables them to critically analyse and evaluate innovation projects with regard to the integration of economic, ecological and socio-cultural requirements, goals and benefits. Students learn to evaluate an innovation project in the construction and real estate industry through creative questioning
techniques. In this course, students learn to recognise economic and business ethics issues, opportunities and risks related to their industry, to analyse these and to propose recommendations for action to solve them.
Course contents:
Overview of the status quo of the construction and real estate industry in terms of innovation projects and digital transformation. Insight into mega and tech trends as well as needs of existing target groups in the real estate industry. Overview of the actors in the aforementioned area incl. forecasting the changes in their roles and competence profiles. Development of an innovation cycle using a practical example. Presentation of selected innovation projects and research initiatives in the aforementioned field.
Teaching format (e.g. online/in person lecture/Seminar/Lab etc.): Combination of face-to-face and online lectures, PM tasks in group work
Examination type: student research project
