Water-Facility Technology

44B0078

Bachelor

German

5.0

only summer term

once a year

1 semester

The water system technology represents a special challenge for the civil engineering design and the subsequent construction both for the landscape architect and for the executing garden and landscape construction company. The spectrum of water installations in open spaces is very broad. It ranges from individual spring stones, to brooks, to ponds, swimming ponds or natural pools. This module teaches the basic construction methods of water systems and the fundamentals of selecting, sizing, installing, and maintaining water system technology. Students will be able to grasp more complex civil engineering relationships in water and pond systems, evaluate engineering principles related to waterproofing measures, select appropriate engineering infrastructure, and present this detailed engineering design.

1 Basics of water technology

1.1 Definition of terms, legal basics
1.2 Origins of water technology plants
1.3 Plant components

2 Fundamentals of civil engineering

2.1 Sealing
2.2 Edge design / connections

3 Water in motion

3.1 Brooks, overflows, weirs
3.2 Manning-Strickler

4 Moving water

4.1 Pumps, supply and return flows, dimensioning
4.2 Water effects

5 Maintaining water

5.1 Physical-biological treatme

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

Knowledge is imparted in the form of lectures, supported by e-learning and day excursion(s). Numerous practical examples serve to consolidate and apply knowledge. Students solve practice-relevant tasks in group work.

• Written examination or
• Homework / Assignment or
• oral exam

Standard examination: two-hour exam (alternative examination form to be selected by the examiner and announced at the beginning of the course).

Written exam: 120 minutes

Students who have successfully studied this module have basic knowledge in the field of water system engineering. They know the construction materials and waterproofing techniques.

Students who have successfully studied this module will be able to combine construction materials for waterproofing water systems. They recognize the basic properties of these building materials and can describe their construction principles. They are able to represent simple building constructions of water plant engineering in drawings and to formulate them in a performance specification.

Students who have successfully studied this module will be able to technically design simple water systems, interpret designs, check their feasibility and roughly dimension individual technical components.

Students who have successfully studied this module apply the acquired skills within the framework of execution planning, construction design, construction site control, construction site management or construction site supervision. They independently carry out construction tasks in water plant engineering from civil engineering design to implementation planning.

Students who have successfully studied this module will be able to embrace innovation, integrate these innovations into existing and future designs, and meet the ever-changing demands of water systems engineering.

Students who have successfully studied this module will review and evaluate their own and external design problems in water systems engineering. They recognize design approaches and can diagnose construction problems. They modify their own construction engineering tasks by comparing design tasks and can compare and evaluate the solution approaches.

Students who have successfully studied this module will be able to plan and develop innovative concepts for water systems and consider current issues such as resource conservation, sustainability, etc.

The module is a compulsory elective module.

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• Open Space Planning B.Eng. (01.09.2025)

• Hornoff, Elke

• Colditz, Maximilian Veit