Land Law is a module of EMV students who are prepared to become property managers and valuation. Among other properties, there is land. Students are supposed to learn about laws governing the use and management of land, how land is acquired or how ownership over land is transferred, how land is exploited, rights and obligations of land owners, third parties' interests in land, classification of lands, conditions for leasehold and freehold, conditions for foreigners to acquire land in Rwanda, sanctions associated with the poor use and management of land. The module has another big part on expropriation for public interests, where also EMV students need to have enough knowledge on how this process is conducted, including activities that are supposed to be done by EMV graduates, including valuation of properties to be expropriated, including land, as well as the administration of the whole process.
1. Brief description of aims and content
The course aims to provide the basics of Building Technology as applied to Real Estate practice. It covers, Building Functions, Structural concepts, Building performance, Forces on building, Building Elements and Components, Stairs in Building, and Finishes and Paints and paintworks. It also introduces Provision of Water and Fire Protection.
2. Learning Outcomes
1. Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed the module, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
1.1. Building functions, structural concepts and building performance.
1.2. Effect of Forces on buildings.
1.3. Building Elements and Components
2. Cognitive/Intellectual skills/Application of Knowledge
Having successfully completed the module, students should be able to:
2.1. Circumstantially select emerging building materials and, and also appropriate technologies in construction.
2.2. Apply Building Technology Procedures and Requirements in Building Valuation.
3. Communication/ICT/Numeracy/Analytic Techniques/Practical Skills
Having successfully completed the module, students should be able to:
3.1. Elaborate building Elements and components details applicable to the building construction
3.2. Elaborate a commercial real estate appraisal incorporating the cost, market, and income approaches to valuation of Buildings.
4. General transferable skills
Having successfully completed the module, students should be able to:
4.1. To explain the basic concepts in the business of Real Estate
4.2. Undertake self-learning in Building Technology
4.3. Produce simple reports on analysis of commercial investment property.
3. Indicative Content
Site preliminaries: characteristics of clearance, setting out, notice and licences, temporary services, storage of materials, site offices and structures, demolitions, notices and license, methods, requirements and adjoining structures.
Building Characteristics:
Building functions, structural concepts, Building performance. Forces on a building, live dead, wind and seismic loads.
Building elements:
Types of foundations, strips, raft. Walls; masonry, frame. Roofs, pitched, flat, construction details, covering and waterproofing. Floors, solid floors timber floors construction details.
Building components:
Wall openings. Doors, Windows types functions and construction details. Fixtures, wardrobe, cupboards, kitchen tops.
Vertical Access in Building.
Stairs: Concrete stairs: types, construction details. Cladding, pre-cast units, prefabrication and assembly. Timber Stairs: Types, construction and balustrades,
Lifts,
Escalator
Finishes:
Internal and external, types, properties functions, performance, applications and construction methods. Paints and paintwork: Purpose and type, methods and application to various backgrounds, Iron mongery; materials and finishes, classification and schedules.
4. Learning and Teaching Strategy
The course is delivered mainly through lectures backed up by tutorial sessions and site observations.
The lecture includes interactive elements whereby students in groups apply principles to simple problems to ensure their involvement and so gain understanding. Handouts are used so that students can concentrate on the material of the lecture, but with gaps where students either have to fill in or make separate notes.
The tutorial sessions are based on presentation and discussions about developed topics by students during their self-reading or site visits.
Site observations are conducted to compare learned theoretical materials with what is happening on the site. Here students may be required to also to produce a report in groups and present it during the tutorial sessions.
5. ASSESSMENT STRATEGY
The assessment strategy is:
- To assess knowledge and application skills though a written examination. The students therefore will rely not only on memory but also show understandings of the principles in application to exam problems.
- To assess practical skills through the report of the site visits and observations.
- To assess self-learning through the produced and presented report in groups
- To assess understanding and application through the assignment whose feedback is given to students on time to allow them to know their weakness and strength
1. Brief description of aims and content
This course introduces students to the main elements of the physical, chemical and biological environment, especially stressing on how they affect buildings. This course shall also include study of environmental concerns that affect buying, selling, financing, appraising, inspecting, brokering, and developing or in any way dealing with real estate. The impact of Human Beings on the environment shall be investigated.
2. Learning Outcomes
1. Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed the module, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
1.1. The main elements (physical and Man made) of the environment and their effect on properties
1.2. Various remedies to these elements
1.3. Challenges caused by adverse environmental issues: Depletion of the Ozone, Emission of Green House gases and global Warming
1.4. How the environmental issue such as affect real estate
2. Cognitive/Intellectual skills/Application of Knowledge
Having successfully completed the module, students should be able to:
2.1. Articulate a clear sense of the effects of environmental issues on real estate
2.2. Demonstrate a familiarity with the basic elements of the environment
3. Communication/ICT/Numeracy/Analytic Techniques/Practical Skills
Having successfully completed the module, students should be able to:
3.1. Demonstrate skill and confidence in ordered and coherent expression, both written and spoken
3.2. Be creative and logical in the solution of problems in real estate management
4. General transferable skills
Having successfully completed the module, students should be able to:
4.1. Learn independently in familiar and unfamiliar situations with open
mindedness and in a sprit of critical enquiry.
4.2. Work constructively as a member of a team and to manage both time and
other sources effectively to meet the deadlines.
4.3. Demonstrate general numerical skills and problem solving skills.
3. Indicative Content
Climatology, ecology and geology. The study also covers thermal balance, noise balance; acoustics of room environment, lighting, capillary action of ground water and ventilation.
Environmental issues –Global Warming, Deforestation ,Waste management, hazardous substances, underground storage tanks, wetlands, radon, asbestos, lead, endangered species protection, sick building syndrome and electromagnetic fields
4. Learning and Teaching Strategy
The course is delivered mainly through lectures backed up by tutorial sessions and seminars. Lectures are conducted in such manner that the lecturer introduces and explain new material. Students will be given opportunity to ask questions. In their set reading or self – directed study time, they will complete handouts, which are given before or after every lecture. Students, by groups, can be given some problems topics on which they must give report. Some time such reports may be taken in consideration as assignments.
Tutorial sessions are conducted once in two weeks and along with home works they will allow students to understand principles of environmental management and conservation
- ASSESSMENT STRATEGY
The assessment strategy is:
- To assess knowledge and application skills though one written assessment test and the end semester examination.
- To assess understanding and application through two assignments (home works) in groups , where every group will prepare an oral and written report.
- To assess self-learning through one assignment (home work) in groups where every group will prepare an oral and written report on a given problem topic.
Welcome to the Land Use Economics
This course will deal with an economic analysis applied to problems of land use. It covers land valuation, rent theory, techniques of assessing the efficiency of land and land conservation. we will be thinking together on how to apply micro-economics principles to land use. We will also try to think mathematically about land use.
Facilitator: Alexis Gatoni Sebarenzi
Course facilitator:
Ir. Emmanuel NYANDWI
email: enyandwi1@ur.ac.rw
Telephone: +250788623382
Real Estate represents a large fraction of the world's wealth. Its efficient utilization and the markets in which it is traded involve many interesting and complex economic and policy issues. Finance is the lifeblood of the real estate industry. Developers, contractors, real estate brokers and mortgage loan brokers should each understand how real estate is financed. This course examines the legal, economic, institutional, quantitative, strategic, and investments elements of the real estate financing process, including both residential and income property financing instruments. Having successfully completed the module, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of: legal and financial aspects of mortgage markets and the investment implications of financial decisions. The student should further be able to effectively evaluate different loan alternatives and choose the most appropriate financing technique for given borrowing situations