BYG•DTU

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BYG•DTU is the Department of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark.

The MSc in Civil Engineering provided at BYG•DTU comprises planning, design, erection, and maintenance of buildings, services, construction work, and towns. The subjects of the education varies from roads, railways, bridges and tunnels to houses and halls with load bearing structures and facades and services for heating, lighting, acoustics and fire safety, water supply drain and sewers, channels, harbours and off-shore structures and town plans.

The master education in Civil Engineering comprises a number of general competences, which are considered as common for all civil engineers and therefore common for all students, contrary to the specializations which are optional. The general part at the master level comprises advanced building design, engineering modelling, planning, and management of building projects, fire safety, thermal building physics, structural modelling of plates and shells, concrete technology, building acoustics and a general knowledge about all specializations.

BYG·DTU has 162 employees (46 scientific personnel, 32 project employed scientific personnel, 48 technical and administrative personnel). In addition are approximately 25 external lectureships and 5 industrial PhD’s.

The turnover was approximately 83 million DKK/year (2005) and is a combination of DTU funding covering the education and “free” research and external means from private funding, private companies, PhD projects, etc. The external funding constitutes more than 35% of the turnover.