Course syllabus for Real estate development: Requirements and regulation

Course syllabus adopted 2024-02-16 by Head of Programme (or corresponding).

Overview

  • Swedish nameFastighetsutvecklingens förutsättningar och spelregler
  • CodeACE280
  • 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 60118
  • Maximum participants45
  • Block schedule
  • Open for exchange studentsNo
  • Only students with the course round in the programme overview.

Credit distribution

0123 Written and oral assignments 4 c
Grading: TH		4 c
0223 Project 6 c
Grading: TH		6 c
0323 Take-home examination 5 c
Grading: TH		5 c

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Examiner

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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
ARK660 - Values in built environment
ARK540 - Urban planning from a developer perspective or ARK541 - Urban planning and design in a client's 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
  • 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, study visits, exercises, and project work. The main task is carried out as project work in groups of 4-5 people.
I. Exercises are carried out individually.
II. The investigation is carried out partly in project groups, partly in cross-groups from different project groups.
III. The project work is carried out in groups.

Literature

SVENSK STANDARD · SS 21054:2020 Area and volume of buildings - Terminology and measurement, Stockholm (1999).

Arkitektens handbok: Anders Bodin, Jacob Hidemark, Martin Stintzing och Sven Nyström, Lund : Studentlitteratur (2022).

Bygghandlingar 90: byggsektorns rekommendationer för redovisning av byggprojekt. D. 6 Redovisning av ombyggnad, Lena Odelberg, Stockholm : SIS förlag (2013).

Så byggdes husen 1880-2000: arkitektur, konstruktion och material i våra flerbostadshus under 120 år, Cecilia Björk, Per Kallstenius, Laila Reppen, Stockholm : Svensk Byggtjänst, (2013).

Examination including compulsory elements

Examination takes place through individual exercises, completion of a project, and an individual take-home exam.

For a passing grade on the course, it is required that each (each individual) component is at least passed. The level of the final grade is determined by weighing together the assessed individual submission, project, and the exam 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.