MSc Programme Structure

The complexity that characterizes the construction sector today is such that it requires an increasing number of technical graduates and an organic diversification of their educational paths. 

The Program Building Engineering for Sustainability has been structured to combine a robust training in the areas that characterize the professional profile of the building engineer, with training paths oriented toward the refinement of specific skills.

The first year includes compulsory courses, and common to the four tracks in which the program is divided, offered in parallel in both Italian and English. To these are added, starting in the second semester, two courses that deepen specialization topics.

The second year is structured, for each of the four tracks, into two teaching+laboratory pairs, one per semester, in which students acquire advanced skills in their area of specialization and apply them within design exercises, coordinated transversely across the four tracks to ensure multidisciplinary integration between different knowledge and approaches in the field of building engineering.

Students can then personalize their training with two optional courses, which can also include courses offered as compulsory in addresses other than that of matriculation.

The educational path is completed by the compulsory internship, which can be carried out externally in professional firms, public administrations, territorial bodies and companies, in Italy or abroad within Erasmus Traineeships programs, or internally, with the possibility of doing practical work within the Departments of the Politecnico di Milano.

Finally, the BES degree program provides more opportunities for internationalization: a part of one’s educational path can take place in other universities, within the framework of mobility programs (Erasmus+), in the EU or outside the EU, also aimed at obtaining a double degree.

Professional tracks