Building Services, MSc

Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Architecture, Building and Planning

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Disciplines:

Civil Engineering, Architecture & Construction

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Country:	Netherlands	Duration:	24 Months
City:	Eindhoven	Start Date:	January, September
Educational Form:	Taught	Languages:	English
Education Variants:	Full Time
Annual Tuition Fee:	€ 1672 € 8600 (non-EEA)

Programme Description

Building Services focuses on the design of healthy and sustainable buildings. The main goal is to optimize the interior environment of a building, while it retains its architectural qualities.

Building Services involves the study of eight main themes: Design methodology, Health and comfort, Integrated building design, Heath and moisture in building envelopes, Building performance simulation, Sustainable building systems, Intelligent buildings and Safety buildings. The teaching program is closely related to the research carried out by the Center for Buildings and Systems TNO-TU/e, and is aligned with the Building Physics and Systems and ISO-built research schools. Attention is also given up to upcoming new technologies such as ambient intelligence and embedded systems promise to make installation systems more intelligent and compact. You can find employment as an installations consultant working for government, consultancy firms and management companies. As a researcher you can work for various knowledge centers. Member companies of the VNI-Uneto trade organization in the Netherlands (6000 companies with 98,000 employees) are also important employers. You could also work as an energy-saving specialist in municipalities and energy utilities.

Types of teaching (in year 1):
theory: 0%
practice: 0%
self study: 0%

Studying abroad is optional.
The percentage of foreign students: 5
The percentage of students abroad: 5

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This programe has a workload of 120 ECTS.

Specialities:

Health and comfort:

Healthy living and working conditions are the most important basic principles for installation technologists. Technologies are grouped around healthy living and the quality of life. Which is why the health of people is the key test of a successful graduation project.

Integral building and system design:

A building is the total of visual and sensory perceptions (architecture and installations, respectively). As an installation technologist you become the co-designer of a building or project. In that task you may for example be involved with challenges like the equipment of the building, and whether or not to use sustainable energy. You need to know how installations increase the level of comfort in a building, while remaining virtually invisible in the background.

Building performance simulation:

Comfort and forms of energy in buildings have an increasingly important role to play. The building and installations must be matched to each other to create a good internal environment with the lowest possible energy consumption.

sustainable building systems:

The main research area is the transport of heat, moisture and air in buildings and installations and its impact on energy consumption, sustainability and comfort. Computer simulations are used to investigate in advance the ways in which costs and energy consumption can be reduced.

Intelligent buildings:

Together with the programs of Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Security Information Technology and Industrial Design, research is carried out into technologies that make a building better suited for special tasks and ensure more optimum use of energy. The application of modern building automation (immotica) and home automation (domotica) is researched. The applicability of concepts like smart buildings, ambient intelligence and embedded systems is also studied.

Building services and management:

You can graduate on projects in the building services field with a strong business focus. For example various business issues can be linked to areas like Industrial, Flexible and Demountable building (IFD), as well as to the liberalization of the energy market. These projects are carried out in partnership with the Operations Management & Logistics program.

Courses:

Course type: internship
This course is given in year 1
This course is optional to apply to.

You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test if you come from a non-English speaking country.

Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.

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Requirements

The general requirements for admission to the TU/e Master's of Science programs are:

- A relevant Bachelor's degree (or equivalent), based on a program of sufficient academic level and quality to be able to complete the TU/e Master's program in question.
- Sufficient mastery of the English language. To prove sufficient command of the English language you should submit an Academic IELTS or TOEFL test.
- Experience shows that students with BSc Grade Point Average (GPA) for the Bachelor's study of at least 75% are more likely to be admitted to a TU/e Master´s program.
- There may also be specific additional requirements for some Master's programs, depending on the nature of your prior education.
- Non-EEA students who are admitted to a TU/e Master's program, but who do not receive a recognised scholarship or a student grant from the Dutch government, are required to transfer a sum of 10,000 euro to the TU/e.