AI2515 Infrastructure - Responsibility and Financing 7.5 credits
Content and learning outcomes
Course contents
The course deals in part with theoretical principles of justice, and in part with the legislation governing construction and management of infrastructure. Of primary concern is legislation regarding transport systems, power supply, water and sewage, telecommunications etc., as well as legislation on protection and preservation of the built environment and natural areas. The course represents a deepening and extension of the subject contents in previous real property law courses.
The course design consists mainly of lectures and seminars.
Intended learning outcomes
The overall objective for this course is to provide extended knowledge of problems and solutions on issues concerning principal responsibility for, and forms of financing of, different types of infrastructure facilities.
This means that the course participants after completion, inter alia, shall be able to:
- Account for alternative systems of principal responsibility for construction and management of infrastructure facilities.
- Account for alternative forms of financing systems for construction and management of infrastructure facilities.
- Compare and evaluate these alternative systems of responsibility and distribution from different principles of justice.
- Apply the theoretical knowledge to explain and analyze current law on construction and management of infrastructure facilities.
Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
Eligibility to the master programme in Real Estate and Contruction Management.
Recommended prerequisites
Equipment
Literature
The course literature will be announced at course start.
Examination and completion
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Grading scale
Examination
- INL1 - Assignment, 2.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
- SEM1 - Seminar, 2.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
- TEN1 - Written Exam, 3.5 credits, grading scale: 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.
Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination
Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination
Examiner
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.