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Real Estate Development & Building Design

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Introduction

Learning outcomes of the courses/module

The students are able to:
• Understand basic provisions of public building law
• Describe the basic contents of a feasibility study
• Describe and evaluate methods of market, location and economic analyses and prepare them independently
• Evaluate and create simple building and use concepts
• Present milestones in the processes of the planning and construction phases
• Identify building typologies and analyze and create function-oriented area alloca-tions
• Analyze design rules
• Reproduce important architectural historical data, characteristics and correlations
• Make sketches (2D and 3D) as a basis for communication in the construction sector
• Present, analyze and exemplary apply methods and instruments of real estate mar-keting
• Identify project development tasks and types of project developers, understand the framework conditions of the industry and identify overlaps and connections with other sub-areas of the real estate industry

Prerequisites for the course

Fundamentals of the Real Estate Industry (GIM), Fundamentals of Facility Management (GFM), Real Estate Investment & Financing (FIN), Civil Engineering II (TEC.2), Law for Facility & Real Estate Management (REC), Selected Topics Social Competences & Presentation (SOC)

Course content

• Public building law (provisions from regional and building regulations)
• Fundamentals and application of feasibility studies
o Market, location and competition analyses
o Use concepts
o Profitability analyses
o Risk analysis
• Planning and construction processes
• Building typologies and room functions
• Design fundamentals
• Creation of 2D and 3D sketches as basis for communication
• Special features, instruments and methods of real estate marketing

Recommended specialist literature

• Miles, M. E., Netherton, L. M., & Schmitz, A. (2015). Real estate development: Principles and process (Fifth edition). Urban Land Institute.
• Peiser, R. B. (2019). Professional Real Estate Development: The uli guide to the business. Urban Land Institute.
• Walker, T., Cucuzzella, C., Goubran, S., & Geith, R. (Eds). (2023). The Role of Design, Construction, and Real Estate in Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28739-8
• Walker, T., Krosinsky, C., Hasan, L. N., & Kibsey, S. D. (Eds). (2019). Sustainable Real Estate: Multidisciplinary Approaches to an Evolving System. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94565-1

Assessment methods and criteria

Written exam

Language

English

Number of ECTS credits awarded

9

Semester hours per week

Planned teaching and learning method

Blended Learning

Semester/trimester in which the course/module is offered

4

Type of course/module

Type of course