The aim of the course is to provide the necessary economic notions for understanding, analysing and rationalising the needs upstream from a project, whether public or private, and which must form the basis of any project discussed and shared with the client, before designing the construction process for transforming a good into a more useful good. The project for a building springs from a series of technical, environmental, financial, economic, social and procedural decisions, which combine the production factors and achieve the best possible balance between the lowest possible cost and the highest possible market value of the end product. Therefore, the students will learn the economic aspects needed to plan, design, assess, build, manage and, possibly, sell a building, the relevant valuation rationale and method, illustrating the necessary estimation criteria for taking economic decisions based on both value and cost-effectiveness, for developing a sustainable project throughout its lifecycle, in the scheduling and financing procedures, design process, acquisition of the sites, tendering and awarding the contract, site and operating management of the activities carried out.

Knowledge and comprension ability 

At the end of the course the student must have acquired knowledge and understanding skills, as well as skills that allow to support, from a theoretical-methodological point of view, the management of the estimative and evaluative economic aspects in the different phases of the building process. The student must have acquired adequate and specific knowledge of the tools, procedures and operational mechanisms that enable him to act in the field of settlement transformation processes. In particular, in the management activities related to the different phases of the settlement production cycle it will have to be able to individualise decision-making knots and evaluation procedures to make rational choices in the phases of: a) programming and intervention design; b) carrying out of the works (confidence, direction and test); c) exercise of the works, using the evaluation methods able to express value and suitability opinions value to verify the technical feasibility, the environmental compatibility, the financial, economic and procedural sustainability, ex ante, ongoing and ex post of an intervention. 

The verification of the knowledge will be made through tests and exercises ongoing and the test (final) exam test proper. 

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

At the end of the course the student will have to demonstrate ownership in the theoretical and operative approaches that let express opinions of value and of suitability and those project - analytical profits for the targeting of the knowledge and of the ability of comprehension you acquire, to solve also complex problems tied to the management of different phases of the building process.

In particular, the student must be able to respond to the estimative and evaluative questions that arise in the management activities connected to the entire settlement production process using the methods, techniques, tools, procedures and operational mechanisms acquired.

These skills will be acquired through frontal and seminar teaching activities, to be carried out in the classroom or at home, referring to concrete cases / experiences, aimed at developing the individual and group approach to application and professional problems.

The knowledge check will be carried out also through the test itself and through tests ongoing.

Judgement autonomy

At the end of the teaching the student will have to demonstrate the ability of acquiring knowledge and experiences, of examining them and of revising them with the purposes of the formation of an autonomous and original judgement. Particularly, the student must demonstrate ability in the autonomous and conscious management of inherent themes about the estimate and evaluation, with the objective of returning solutions adequate to the problems that can be presented in the management activity it connected with different phases of the of settlement production process. The achievement of these critical and autonomous judgments will be acquired during the frontal and seminar teaching activities. 

The knowledge verification will be made, moreover, through the properly been called examination proof and through proofs ongoing.

Communication skills

At the end of the teaching the student will have to demonstrate, in connection with the acquisition of the operative ability compared to the theorist, methodological, technical and project knowledge, own of the teaching, of being able to communicate it, in adequate and effective way also, inside the documents to be prepared in the management activity it connected with different phases of the of settlement production process, using advanced and multimedia communication tools within the bounds of the representation and in different language, spoken and written-graphic shapes.

The attainment of such abilities will be acquired during the frontal activities and Course seminar didactics that ensure the full possession of the specific expressive and illustrative abilities of the plan and project. The knowledge verification will be made, moreover, through the properly been called examination proof and through proofs ongoing.

Learning ability

At the end of the course the student will have to demonstrate a significant capacity for independent learning, which will allow him to update and continuously increase his knowledge and skills in the formulation of value and convenience judgments related to the issues related to the management of the building process and settlement transformation.

The acquisition of these skills will take place through specific theoretical contributions given by the teacher during the course, aimed at broadening the framework of skills aimed at using methodologies, tools and applications, including innovative in the field of appraisal and evaluation and through participation constant to the Course seminar activities, dialectical field of verification of acquired knowledge, carried out within concrete cases of experimentation.

The assessment of skills will take place, above all, through the exam test, structured so as to highlight the autonomy in organizing their own learning.