Professional opportunities

Professional opportunities

• Professional practice in rehabilitation, restoration and construction management projects, either as self-employed professionals or in the employ of companies specialising in technical engineering or architectural firms.
• Employment with construction companies as site managers or group or area managers. The training that the master's degree provides is highly relevant to key positions in companies of this kind, particularly when complemented by training in business management.
• Positions with public administrations, including city, county and provincial councils and the administrations of autonomous communities and the central government.
• Other positions in the rehabilitation and architectural restoration sector (specialist consultants, specifiers of materials or building systems, quality managers in this field, trainers, administrators, etc.).

Competencies

Generic competencies

Generic competencies are the skills that graduates acquire regardless of the specific course or field of study. The generic competencies established by the UPC are capacity for innovation and entrepreneurship, sustainability and social commitment, knowledge of a foreign language (preferably English), teamwork and proper use of information resources.

Specific competences

• To recognise the materials and construction techniques of each historical period and evaluate their influence in architectural terms.
• To identify key aspects of the process of historical documentation of buildings.
• To design a rehabilitation intervention based on a building’s history.
• To apply advanced graphic surveying techniques in the examination of existing buildings.
• To describe the phenomena of heat exchange, thermal perception, indoor air quality, ventilation, lighting conditions and noise propagation and control.
• To gain knowledge of the thermal performance and energy efficiency of existing buildings.
• To model building structures and evaluate their capacity.
• To gain knowledge of material characterisation techniques and solve specific problems related to these techniques.
• To learn about methods of assessment based on observed or measured data and the results of processes of analysis with numerical support.
• To analyse and apply the analysis processes studied to solve specific problems related to existing buildings in order to complete a diagnosis.
• To make decisions based on the analysis of results.
• To gain knowledge of specific techniques for damage repair and the improvement of existing buildings.
• To apply the knowledge gained to prepare rehabilitation plans.
• To carry out and present and defend before an examination committee an original, individual piece of work consisting of a project of a professional nature, related to diagnosis and intervention techniques in building construction, that synthesises and integrates the competencies acquired on the master’s degree.