University of Minho (Portugal), together with Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic), Zuyd Polytechnic University (The Netherlands), Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain), University of Malta (Malta), the International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment (iiSBE) and several other universities and other non-commercial organisations, is coordinating an International Master Programme and Post-graduation in Sustainable Built Environment, which objective is to provide expert knowledge about the sustainability of the built environment to students with degrees in Civil Engineering, Architecture or related areas, in a way that is not currently addressed at the level of the other master degrees in Engineering and/or Architecture, being organized in a combination of theory, practice and experimentation in the context of project-driven training.
The Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC) is a research unit of the School of Engineering of University of Minho (UMinho), recognised by the “FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (Foundation for Science and Technology), associated to the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC), with whom it shares resources and namely human resources.
Currently CTAC aggregates 37 researchers holding a PhD of which 27 are faculty professors of the Civil Engineering Department.
