Skip to main content
About course

AF2314 Project Work in Building Materials 6.0 credits

Administrate About course

This course will provide students with advanced knowledge of building materials and its uses and applications in the built environment.

Study of current issues of building materials involving literature reviews, interviews, field visits, direct contact with manufacturers and / or users of building materials or parts of the points mentioned above. Report writing and oral presentation are important elements of the work.

Course offering missing for current semester as well as for previous and coming semesters
Headings with content from the Course syllabus AF2314 (Spring 2014–) are denoted with an asterisk ( )

Content and learning outcomes

Course contents

Study of current issues of building materials involving literature reviews, interviews, field visits, direct contact with manufacturers and / or users of building materials or parts of the points mentioned above. Report writing and oral presentation are important elements of the work.

Intended learning outcomes

This course will provide students with advanced knowledge of building materials and its uses and applications in the built environment.

Course disposition

Literature studies

Interviews, field visits

Summary of results

Reportwriting

Oral presentation

Literature and preparations

Specific prerequisites

Students admitted to CSAMH,

Degree Progr. in Civil Engineering and Urban Management (S)

Degree Progr. in Surveying (L),

Degree Progr. in Civil Engineering (V)

Recommended prerequisites

No information inserted

Equipment

No information inserted

Literature

Presented at the beginning of the course

Examination and completion

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

Grading scale

A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Examination

  • PRO1 - Project Work, 6,0 hp, betygsskala: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

Other requirements for final grade

Approved report and performed and accepted oral presentation of the work.

Grading A-F

Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination

No information inserted

Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination

No information inserted

Examiner

Profile picture Magnus Wålinder

Ethical approach

  • All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
  • In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
  • In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

Further information

Course web

Further information about the course can be found on the Course web at the link below. Information on the Course web will later be moved to this site.

Course web AF2314

Offered by

ABE/Building Materials

Main field of study

Built Environment

Education cycle

Second cycle

Add-on studies

No information inserted

Contact

Rickard Bellander (Rickard.Bellander@byv.kth.se)