Engineering Data Governance for Sustainable Strategy
A graduate seminar on how construction data becomes trustworthy, traceable evidence for sustainability and procurement decisions.
Overview
Engineering organizations generate enormous volumes of data — BIM models, cost estimates, carbon inventories, supplier records — but this data rarely arrives at decision-makers in a structured, queryable, or auditable form. This course examines methods and practice in engineering data governance, focusing on how construction data can be structured, integrated, and queried to support sustainable strategy and procurement decisions.
Through case studies, weekly hands-on exercises, and a capstone integration project, students build the full governance pipeline — from raw data inventory to decision-ready evidence.
What You’ll Learn
Course Format
Case Studies
Weekly case studies grounded in real construction and procurement scenarios introduce each governance challenge.
Hands-on Exercises
Students work directly with BIM exports, cost documents, and carbon data to practice structuring and querying information.
Capstone Project
A term-long integration project in which students design a data governance architecture for a sustainability strategy of their choosing.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Design engineering data governance architectures that support sustainable strategy
- Apply compliance-ready workflows for carbon footprint tracking
- Structure supplier evaluation and selection around sustainability performance
- Prepare sustainability performance reports backed by traceable data
Course Details
| Credits | 3 |
| Semester | Year 116, Fall (碩一上) |
| Level | Graduate |
| Language | English |
| Format | Seminar + weekly exercises + capstone project |
This course is offered as part of the graduate curriculum at NTUT Civil Engineering, under the BuiltInsight Lab research program in semantic digital twins and data governance.