Course syllabus for Real estate development: Requirements and regulation

Course syllabus adopted 2022-02-10 by Head of Programme (or corresponding).

Overview

  • Swedish nameFastighetsutvecklingens förutsättningar och spelregler
  • CodeACE175
  • Credits15 Credits
  • OwnerTAFFS
  • Education cycleFirst-cycle
  • Main field of studyCivil and Environmental Engineering
  • DepartmentARCHITECTURE AND CIVIL ENGINEERING
  • GradingTH - Pass with distinction (5), Pass with credit (4), Pass (3), Fail

Course round 1

  • Teaching language Swedish
  • Application code 60114
  • Maximum participants45
  • Block schedule
  • Open for exchange studentsNo
  • Only students with the course round in the programme overview.

Credit distribution

0119 Written and oral assignments 4 c
Grading: TH		2 c2 c
0219 Project 6 c
Grading: TH		3 c3 c
0319 Examination 5 c
Grading: TH		2.5 c2.5 c
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Eligibility

General entry requirements for bachelor's level (first cycle)
Applicants enrolled in a programme at Chalmers where the course is included in the study programme are exempted from fulfilling the requirements above.

Specific entry requirements

The same as for the programme that owns the course.
Applicants enrolled in a programme at Chalmers where the course is included in the study programme are exempted from fulfilling the requirements above.

Course specific prerequisites

ARK530 - Property and contract law
ARK535 - Values in built environment or ARK660 - Values in built environment
ARK540 - Urban planning from a developer perspective
MVE491 - Mathematics, statistics and methods

Aim

The course aims to give the student a comprehensive view of property development, its conditions and frameworks.
By studying the different stages of a real estate development project;
1. Feasibility studies
2. Project requirements
3. Design
4. Usability
the student should practice skills in the terms of property development. The course is thus intended to strengthen the ability as an entrepreneur to carry out real estate projects with an understanding of sustainability issues.

Learning outcomes (after completion of the course the student should be able to)

  • investigate, inventory and analyze the conditions of a project and compile this in an investigation describing the project's business concept
  • establish a business description and a building program based on the project's business concept
  • propose a solution (synthesis corresponding to a proposal action) on the building program based on the project's conditions
  • implement a legally and economically integrated project, make a simple budget, draw up a credit plan, assess the need for collateral and select relevant collateral
  • present the proposal on the course project presentation; describe, argue, evaluate and discuss one's own and others' suggestions

Content

Main Task (project) of the course is to investigate, and proposed actions to try, what type of business that can both develop the property in question, from a property owner perspective, in parallel with the environment developed in accordance with the city's stated ambition to achieve sustainable long-term, robust and vibrant mixed city.
Proposed projects should therefore, as optimally as possible, fulfill the interface between these five perspectives: Property - society - landlord - tenant - financial sustainability. 

Organisation

The course consists of lectures, individual literature studies, seminars, study visit, exercises and project work. Literature studies followed up the seminar. Lectures and study reported in the papers that are made collectively and recognized in essay form for all other students. The main task undertaken as project work in nine groups. The result of this work criticized and reported as the last part of the course.
I. Exercises are carried out individually.
II. The investigation carried out in cross-groups from different project teams so that specialized knowledge is distributed throughout the course.
III. The project work is carried out in groups.

Literature

Area och volym för husbyggnader - Terminologi och mätregler (pdf)
Arkitektens handbok 2013 Anders Bodin, Jacob Hidemark, Martin Stintzing och Sven Nyström, Byggenskap Förlag, ISBN 978-87079-02-3.
Bygghandlingar 90 (library)
Så byggdes husen 1880-2000: arkitektur, konstruktion och material i våra flerbostadshus under 120 år, Cecilia Björk, Formas 200301.
Vad är kunskap? En diskussion om praktisk och teoretisk kunskap,
Bernt Gustavsson, Liber Kalmar 2002 (pdf)

Examination including compulsory elements

Examination is done by completing a project, an individual exam and completed compulsory parts.

For an approved final grade for the course, each (each individual) component is least approved. 
The final grade level is determined by weighting the assessed individual submission, project and examination result. 

The course examiner may assess individual students in other ways than what is stated above if there are special reasons for doing so, for example if a student has a decision from Chalmers on educational support due to disability.