The Polytechnical Buiding in Ciudad Real, where this degree is taught, has a surface area of 20,370.40 m2. It houses the Civil Engineering School and the Higher School of Computer Science and was built by the building company San José, in 1999. Later on a Classroom building was added and the extension works were completed in 2010. This building meets the accessibility standards set in current law.
The buildings together, the Polytechnic and Classroom building, have a Wi-Fi connection (Eduroam) and different points to connect by cable in the classrooms and offices. It is a multicurricular space where currently different degrees belonging to the fields of engineering and architecture are taught.
The premises for the Civil Engineering School and therefore those for teaching both the degree and the Masters in Civil and Territorial Engineering are sufficient and adequate. This concerns both the classrooms for theory classes and seminars, and those for the project based learning workshops in which projects are carried out by students in teams. Each course has its own project based learning classroom which students can access freely during the opening hours of the centre, which are from 8am to 9pm from Mondays to Fridays.
Laboratories
There are six laboratories at the Civil Engineering School which are used both for teaching and research: Hydraulics, Land Engineering and Environmental Geotechnics, Cartography and Geodesy, Materials and Structures, Environment, and Applied Acoustics. Below, there is a brief description of the equipment available at each one:
The Hydraulics Laboratory, specialised in analysing fluvial hydraulic processes and designing hydraulic structures has a covered surface area of 1500m2 and a similar uncovered area and whose main equipment is:
- Central pumping system: 300 l/s
- Channel with a variable slope (up to 4%): 30 m x 0.75 m x 0.60 m
- Provision, recirculation and separation of two types of grain size distribution
- Maximum solid flow of 2 kg/s
- Specific area for analysis of local erosion
- Equipment for studying motion along a curved channel: 20 m x 1.00 m x 0.30 m
- Curve area: depth of 1.20 m
- With no sediments
-Radius of axis curve: 2 m.
- Equipment for studying motion along a bidimensional channel: 20 m x 5.00 m x 0.30 m
- System for providing automatic flow (120 l/s)
- Clear water
The Laboratory for Land Engineering and Environmental Geotechnics specialised in Geotechnics (analysis of stability of slopes, foundations and embankment structures, applying conventional criteria and experimental advanced methods and calculation), in hydrogeology (on a local and large scale) and in environmental hydrogeology (analysis of spread of pollutants and environmental impact). For this purpose, it has the following equipment:
- Equipment for carrying out normal tests in soils mechanics
- GDS cyclic triaxial equipment for carrying out partially saturated tests.
- Rock triaxial equipment
- Oedemetric bench, with direct cutting equipment
- Devices for basic soil tests (identification, compaction)
- Psycrometer
- Climatic chamber
- D2K Capacitance probe
- Devices for hydrogeological characterisation
- Device for electromagnetic prospection
- Device for geoelectrical prospection (vertical electrical sounding, electrical resistivity tomography)
- Georadar
- Very Low Frequency equipment
The Cartography and Geodesy Laboratory specialises in applying digital tools to manage urban land, in using satellite images to manage water resources and applying Bayesian networks in the unsupervised classification of satellite images, and has the following equipment for this purpose:
- 3D Laser scanner
- GPS receptors with two frequencies in real time
- High resolution GPS receptors in real time
- Total stations
- Automatic levels
- Laser level
- Tripods, ranging rod, sights, millimetric ruler for the laser level
- Plotter A0 HP DesingJet 500 color
- A0 Calcomp digitalised drawing board
- Software: Cartomap and a server
- Collection 1/50,000 of Ciudad Real, Albacete, Cuenca and Toledo and a 1/25,000 of the province of Ciudad Real
- 1/50,000 aerial photography map on the scales of 1/33,000 and 1/40,000
The Laboratory of Materials and Structures specialises in the advanced mechanical characterisation of materials (ductility, fracture, fatigue) in carrying out structural tests (beams, walls, porticos, bridge models) and the advanced numerical simulation of materials and structural performance. For this purpose, it has the following equipment:
- Servohydraulic machine for mechanical tests, Instron 8805 capable of crushing and breaking up to 100 Tonnes of sample (dynamic)
- Servohydraulic machine for mechanical tests, Instron 8805 capable of crushing and breaking up to 25 Tonnes of sample (dynamic)
- Servosis servohydraulic machine for mechanical tests capable of crushing and breaking up to 300 Tonnes of sample (static)
- 12 x 20 m2 Load-bearing slab with Servosis portal frame capable of crushing and breaking up to 250 Tonnes (static)
- 8 kJ Drop tower for high speed deformation tests
- Data acquisition systems; resistant and inductive extensometers, amplifiers, osciloscopes, SAD software.
- Laboratories for experiments on concrete, chemical analysis and microscopes
The Laboratory of the Environment has different equipment for characterising the most important quality parameters concerning natural and residual water, soils and sediments and for carrying out microbiological analyses. It also has all the necessary material for field work, both concerning collecting samples and carrying out physical-chemical analysis and in situ measurements. All this equipment is supplemented with computers and specialised software for geographical information systems, numerical analysis and modelling ecosystem processes. Lastly, there is the additional teaching equipment used for carrying out field work in ecology, microbiology, analysis and water treatment.
Finally, the Laboratory of Applied Acoustics has the following equipment:
- Equipment for evaluating georeferrenced acoustics from the characteristics of rolling surfaces (Geo-LSPL)
- Impedance tube for measuring the sound absorption of materials. Equipment for measuring the sound transmission performance of materials.
- Trailer with semi-anechoic chamber to evaluate the sound from rolling surfaces (urban and road) and tyres
- Equipment for designing and developing pavements with sound properties
- Ground Compactor, oven, scales, etc.
- Equipment for measuring the physical properties of bituminous mixtures and other pavements (hollow spaces, densities, resistance to flow, etc.)
- Equipment for measuring texture and surface roughness
- Creation of environmental noise maps
- Software for studying road noise maps (EU Directive 2002/49)
- System for measuring dynamic rigidity (mechanical impedance) of pavements and in-situ laboratories
This equipment is constantly renewed and maintained. By means of public calls for purchasing, which are usually funded by FEDER, heavy large budget equipment has been accessed. For general smaller equipment, the University of Castilla-La Mancha itself makes open calls for funding new ones and maintaining old ones. To purchase average specific material, which may be allocated to research on a specific topic, the School has been funded from projects from administrations in public calls or from companies.
As for digital tools, the UCLM has permits for the whole university community, which cover all teaching needs. A full-time computer science specialist is entrusted with maintaining the computer equipment and software at the School.
The material resources and services described are sufficient and adequate for teaching the University Masters in Civil Engineering, as there are classrooms, laboratories and specific equipment for carrying out all the teaching activities planned.