Engineering Data Governance for Sustainable Strategy

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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

Semantic Bridging

Connecting BIM models with cost-estimation and procurement documents

Embodied Carbon Databases

Applying carbon inventories to real design and procurement decisions

Procurement Analysis

Structuring supplier evaluation around sustainability criteria

Sustainability Reporting

Building auditable, low-code carbon-tracking workflows

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

Note

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.

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Engineering Data Governance for Sustainable Strategy

Overview

What You’ll Learn

Course Format

Case Studies

Hands-on Exercises

Capstone Project

Learning Outcomes

Course Details