Historical buildings are not only part of our cultural heritage, but also valuable resource for our future. Their constructions are based on craft techniques that have developed and refined for a long time. Natural products from regional value added were installed. Their components have a long-lasting life cycle and a high repair capacity. These buildings are sustainable, usually they have a favorable overall energy balance and leave a gentle ecological footprint behind. But above all, they shape our cultural landscape.
Climate crisis and energy transition pose major challenges to our society, which also encompasses our historical building stock in all its diversity. This concerns buildings in urban settings as well as rural environments. Experts in the field of preservation and redevelopment of our building stock are faced with complex issues. Technical, legal, economic, socio-cultural and architectural competences are needed to meet these challenges. A developed aesthetic sense helps to capture building artistic aspects.
The curriculum of the university course "Renovation and Revitalization" takes this need into account and defines a new topic with each module. For this purpose, different facets are illuminated and linked to one another. Students are increasingly introduced deeper and deeper into matter and then build their own expertise from it. Scientific work is of particular importance.
Theory is linked to practice. The aim is to provide an overall understanding of the complexity of renovation, preservation and revitalization.
People working in the following fields: architecture, monument care, engineering, builder companies and construction companies, building promoters, real estate administrations – also of ecclesial, institutional or family owners but also of administrative authorities at municipal, state and federal level as well as relevant governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as persons who wish to acquire competences in the area of renovation and revitalization from other motives. Employees working in the following fields: architecture, monument care, engineering, builder companies and construction companies, building promoters, real estate administrations – also of ecclesial, institutional or family owners but also of administrative authorities at municipal, state and federal level as well as relevant governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as persons who wish to acquire competences in the area of renovation and revitalization from other motives.
Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30
3500 Krems
Austria
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