1 August 2021. At the same time, the previous curriculum is cancelled.

Graduates are entitled to use the title Bachelor in Architectural Technology and Construction Management.

The purpose of the programme is to qualify the graduate to independently plan, lead and handle technical and administrative work within design and execution of building and construction tasks.
 

The programme has a nominal length of study equivalent to 210 ECTS credits comprising:

1) Programme elements with a total scope of 160 ECTS credits and organised within the academic areas of the programme.

2) Internship with a total scope of 30 ECTS credits.

3) Final exam project of 20 ECTS credits.
 

Knowledge

The graduate will have development-based knowledge and understanding about:

1. the principles, theories, and methods applied by the profession within the areas of management, project design, planning, completion as well as operation and maintenance of complex building and construction projects
2. scientific theoretical concepts and methods relevant to the profession as well as communication theories and methods for the dissemination of building-technical issues, including the use of digital media and tools within the profession
3. principles and models applied by the industry for the establishment, operation, and organisation of a business, and societal and technological conditions that have an impact on the construction process, including issues related to the areas of energy, working environment, and sustainability from a local and global perspective
4. managerial, social, linguistic, cultural, and ethical aspects related to the planning of, and cooperation on, construction projects.

Skills

The graduate will have the skills to:

1. assess and apply relevant methods with regard to management, project design, planning, and completion of complex building and construction projects, including relevant digital tools, standards, and systems
2. apply relevant research knowledge and methods to solve complex building-technical problems
3. assess technological, organisational, and societal factors in construction planning, including aspects related to energy, working environment and sustainability as well as account for and choose relevant solutions
4. communicate practice-orientated and professional knowledge based on building-technical research and development.

Competencies

The graduate will be able to:

1. handle the planning, project design, management, and completion of complex building and/or construction projects – independently and in cooperation with other professionals
2. manage communication on project design, tendering, and completion of complex building and construction projects between the parties involved in the construction project
3. manage sustainable, social, cultural, and ethical factors in the design and processing of construction projects and participate in managerial and cooperative contexts with other professionals with different educational, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds
4. independently participate in a professional and cross-disciplinary cooperation and assume responsibility within the sphere of the profession
5. identify their own learning requirements and develop their own knowledge, skills and competencies in relation to the profession.

The internship consists of relevant work and aims to prepare the student to work as an architectural technologist. The internship must take place in a private or public company / organisation in Denmark or abroad which offers internship assignments relevant to the profession and with the required guidance.

Learning objectives for the internship

Knowledge

The graduate will have development-based knowledge about and an ability to reflect on:

1. the practical work performed at the company in question, and
2. the organisational, financial, administrative, and social- and work-related conditions in the company in question.

Skills

The graduate will have the skills to:

1. master and apply the methods and tools of a Bachelor of Architectural Technology and Construction Management to practical, relevant work
2. assess theoretical and practice-orientated issues during the internship as well as account for and choose relevant solutions
3. communicate practice-orientated issues and solutions to the internship company and its stakeholders.

Competencies

The graduate will be able to:

1. manage and translate complex and development-based issues in work-related contexts into practice-orientated solutions in the company in question
2. identify their own learning requirements and develop their own knowledge, skills and competencies in relation to the practice of the profession
3. manage complex and development-based situations in work-related contexts
4. independently participate in a professional and cross-disciplinary cooperation and assume responsibility within the framework of professional ethics
5. work with relevant, complex issues within the area of the profession in the company in question, and
6. solve theoretical and practical problems in the company in question, independently or in cooperation with other professionals.

ECTS weight

The internship is worth 30 ECTS credits.

Number of exams

The internship completes with an exam.

The internship is a mandatory education element and an active participation is a premise in order to pass the internship. The rules below must be followed in order for KEA to approve the internship. 

The internship equates to 15 or 30 ECTS points, equal to 10 or 20 weeks full time internship. The working hours have to be 37 hours per week. The internship is unpaid. You must have an attendance at at least 80 % of the time in your internship.

If you cannot work the 37 hours a week you have to in the internship period because of documented health reasons, you can apply for an exemption to work fewer hours per day for an extended period, so your internship still has a weighting of 15 or 30 ECTS points.

Following forms of internship are possible at KEA:

• Workplace internship in Denmark or abroad.
• Entrepreneurial Internship in your own business.

When doing a workplace internship, you must be physically avilable in the company. If the company has a policy for working at home, the intern can follow this policy up to a maximum of 2 days per week.

The intern must participate in assignments relevant to the study programme and be part of a relevant professional environment.

Before the start of the internship, you have to fill out and send in KEAs internship contract and the work content should be approved as relevant for the study programme by KEA.

The internship is a learning process with associated guidance, reflection and evaluation.

If the internship takes place at a workplace, there must be an employee in the company, who can provide you with relevant professional sparring.

If you choose entrepreneurial internship in your own business, you must find a relevant and external contact who can be your mentor.

Students who chooses entrepreneurial internship in your own business cannot have other students at KEA as interns at their business.

As a student, you are responsible for contacting potential internship companies and concluding an internship agreement before the internship period starts. KEA will however support you in the searching process.

• All students will be assigned an internship supervisor who is a teacher from your programme. The supervisor can help you with subject-specific questions about the internship.
• KEA has an internship coordinator who can help you with practical questions about the internship.
• KEA mediates internship opportunities at www.jobportal.kea.dk/en/ and at career fairs.
• You can join KEA's mentor arrangement. KEA's mentors are working KEA alumni, and they can guide you in relation to your internship search.
• You can find further information about the internship and the search for an internship place at mit.kea.dk/en/internship.

The internship completes with an exam. The exam is assessed according to the 7-point grading scale.

The rules in this section does not apply to the bachelor’s programme in Optometry. The rules for the bachelor’s programme in Optometry can be found in the section ‘Learning goals for the internship and length of internship’ in the programmes curriculum.

Teaching is based on the understanding that learning is best achieved by giving students the opportunity to work with realistic tasks taken from, or inspired by, companies in relevant industries.

A student project must be so defined that it takes the academic challenges of the semester into consideration.

The students are given an opportunity to process several of the phases of a given project — from the initial analysis to the realisation of the project. In connection with the project work, the student will be faced with realistic problems which must be solved on the basis of the given theory and so organised that the given deadlines can be observed. Along the way, the student learns how to work independently, so that they will be able to complete a graduation project as an independent assignment.

This working method gives the student an understanding of how to identify and analyse problems, set up solution models, and choose the right solution.

At KEA, there is a commencement of studies exam for the Bachelor of Architectural Technology and Construction Management. Students on the programme must pass the commencement of studies exam in order to continue their studies.

The commencement of studies exam aims to clarify whether the student has actually started on the programme. The exam is a minor academic exam in the basic elements from the first seven to eight weeks of study. The commencement of studies exam is held no later than two months after the commencement of study, and students will get the result within two weeks after the exam.

The commencement of studies exam is assessed internally as "Pass" or "Fail". If a student does not pass the exam, they have the option of sitting one (and only one) re-exam to be held within three months after the commencement of study. In other words, students have two attempts at passing the commencement of studies exam. 

Students who do not pass the commencement of studies exam will be disenrolled from the programme.

The 60 ECTS-worth first-year exam is at the end of the second semester of the programme. Students must pass the first-year exam before the end of the second year of study in order to continue on the programme.

The first-year-exam must be passed before the end of the first year of study in order for the student to continue with the education.

The bachelor project, together with the internship exam and the other exams in the programme, must document that the programme's goals for learning outcomes have been achieved. The bachelor project must document the student's understanding of and ability to reflect on the practice of the profession as well as their application of theories and methods in relation to a practice-orientated problem. The identified problem, which must be central to the programme and the profession, is formulated by the student, possibly in cooperation with a private or public company. The educational institution must approve the problem statement.

Bachelor project exam

The bachelor project completes the study programme in the final semester when all previous exams have been passed. Reference is made to the current Ministerial Order on Exams in Professionally Oriented Higher Education Programmes (Danish title: Bekendtgørelse om prøver i erhvervsrettede videregående uddannelser) and to the institutional part of the curriculum.

Exam form

Reference is made to the current Ministerial Order on Exams in Professionally Oriented Higher Education Programmes and section 5.

Within the overall learning objectives, the student writes a proposal for a Bachelor project.

The problem must be central to the programme and the profession and must include at least two of the traditional design phases of construction. This is to ensure that the bachelor project makes out a representative sample of the programme’s goals.

The problem, which is defined in consultation with the supervisor and, most appropriately, in collaboration with a private or public company or client, must explain the background, focus areas and technical issues that the student intends to work with.

The examination in the bachelor project involves an oral defence based on the prepared material, either hung on boards or presented digitally.

Students with physical or mental impairment may apply for special exam arrangements. The application must be submitted no later than four weeks before the exam. Exemptions from the deadline may be granted in the case of sudden health problems. The application must be accompanied by a medical certificate, an opinion from a speech, hearing or dyslexia therapist or an institute for the blind or the like or other documentation for health issues or a specific impairment.

Students whose native language is not Danish may bring dictionaries to exams where no materials and aids are permitted.

Applications for permission to bring other materials and aids must be submitted no later than four weeks before the exam.

Make-up exams

Students who have been unable to complete an exam due to documented illness will be given the opportunity to take the (make-up) exam as soon as possible. If the exam in question is scheduled for the final exam period, students will be given the opportunity to take the exam in the same exam period or immediately thereafter.

The make-up exam may be identical to the next ordinary exam. Students are responsible for finding out when the (make-up) exam is held.

Information on the time and place of make-up exams is made available on Fronter, and students are informed via KEA email.

Illness must be documented with a medical certificate. The institution must have received the medical certificate no later than three working days after the date of the exam. Students who become acutely ill during an exam must document with a medical certificate they were ill on the date in question.

If illness is not documented in accordance with the above rules, the student will have used one exam attempt.

Students must pay for the required medical certificates themselves.

Re-exams

Students who do not pass an exam or fail to appear at an exam will automatically be registered for the re-exam, provided that they have any exam attempts left. The re-exam may be identical to the next ordinary exam.

Students are responsible for finding out when the re-exam is held.

Information on the time and place of re-exams is made available on Fronter, and students are informed via KEA email.

In special circumstances, for example in connection with documented disabilities, the institution may grant an exemption from the automatic registration for exams.

Cheating at exams will be handled in accordance with the rules set out in the Ministerial Order on Examinations on Professionally Oriented Higher Education Programmes (the Examination Order). 

Students who cheat at an exam will be expelled from the exam.

In case of aggravating circumstances, students may be suspended from the institution for a long or short period of time. In such event, students must be issued with a written warning stating that repeated cheating may result in permanent expulsion.

Cheating includes:

– Obtaining unlawful help during an exam

– Providing unlawful help to other students during an exam

– Presenting other people’s work as one’s own (plagiarism – see www.stopplagiat.nu), see also section 5.15

– Using own previously assessed work without stating the source, see also section 5.15

– Using materials and aids not permitted for the exam in question

Expulsion from an exam due to cheating means that the awarded grade will be withdrawn, and the student will have used one exam attempt.

Students who exhibit disruptive behaviour during an exam may be ordered to leave the exam. In less serious cases, the institution will first warn the students.

Active enrolment is controlled on an ongoing basis. If the student has not participated in teaching activities for two consecutive weeks, or when there is otherwise a reasonable presumption that the student no longer qualifies as an active student, the student will receive an email as to whether the student still qualifies as an active student.

If the student has not confirmed their active enrolment within the deadline stipulated in the email, the student will receive another request about continued active enrolment. If the student has not confirmed their active enrolment within the specified time, the student will be disenrolled.
 

Credit transfer makes it possible to build on already acquired qualifications and avoid double education and the waste of resources associated with this — for the student and society. The student is entitled to credit transfer if and when the conditions have been met.

Credit transfer is the result of KEA's assessment of whether previously completed subjects correspond to theoretical parts of the Bachelor’s degree programme in Architectural Technology and Construction Management and whether qualifications obtained through employment correspond to the goals set for the internship included in the programme. Credit transfer is granted as an actual time shortening of the programme or as an exemption for parts of the programme — depending on the possibilities. Credit transfer for key elements of a programme requires a high degree of identity between previously completed subjects and internships and the Bachelor’s degree programme in Architectural Technology and Construction Management. The assessment is based on the documentation of completed teaching and employment. Documentation of completed teaching will usually be formal exams and diplomas as well as course and programme diplomas. In relation to employment, such documentation will usually be employment certificates, references and the like.

Credit transfer is granted solely on the basis of formal documentation.

Active enrolment is controlled on an ongoing basis. If the student has not participated in teaching activities for two consecutive weeks, or when there is otherwise a reasonable presumption that the student no longer qualifies as an active student, the student will receive an email as to whether the student still qualifies as an active student.

If the student has not confirmed their active enrolment within the deadline stipulated in the email, the student will receive another request about continued active enrolment. If the student has not confirmed their active enrolment within the specified time, the student will be disenrolled.
 

Disenrolment due to insufficient study activity

Enrolment on the programme can be terminated for students who have not passed at least one exam within a consecutive period of at least one year.
 

Exemption rules

KEA may, due to exceptional circumstances, grant exemptions from the rules in this curriculum laid down solely by KEA or together with the educational institutions offering the programme.

Students may be disenrolled if they have not passed at least one exam within a consecutive period of one year.

In exceptional circumstances, the institution may grant exemptions from the rules in this curriculum that are laid down exclusively by the educational institution.

The procedure for filing a complaint about the assessment, the exam process or the exam basis, such as questions, assignments or the like, is outlined below.

The student must submit a written and reasoned complaint no later than two weeks after the exam. The complaint must be sent to klage@kea.dk.

The complaint is shown to the examiner and the co-examiner, who issue an opinion. The deadline for issuing this opinion is usually two weeks. The student (the complainant) is then invited to comment on the opinion within a deadline of one week.

The institution will make its decision based on the complaint, the opinion and any comments. The outcome may be a new exam, a new assessment (in the case of written exams) or dismissal of the complaint. The student will then have two weeks to accept a possible new exam or assessment or to appeal the decision, if he or she has not been successful.

What can you get out of a complaint ? If KEA rules in favour of your complaint, you will be awarded a re-exam (oral exams) or a reassessment (written exams only). KEA cannot administratively change a grade. If the re-exam or reassessment gives another grade, this grade will be your grade regardless whether it is a higher or a lower grade.