Keyword: «construction education»

The article gives an analysis of the need to improve higher education in the field of "green" construction in accordance with the situation in the modern construction industry. It emphasizes the importance of the "green" construction connection with interdisciplinary areas in the process of obtaining professional education in colleges and universities. This determines the relevance of the article topic. The aim of the article is to propose an option for improving academic disciplines in the field of "green" construction and developing research interaction based on the analysis of the current situation in the field of learning the basics of "green" construction in colleges and universities. To achieve the goal of the article, the following methods were used: theoretical analysis and conceptual synthesis of scientific results devoted to the development of the APE system, as well as the problems of informatization of domestic education, system analysis, expert-analytical methods for assessing the content of educational and methodological materials for creating an educational resource on the "Fundamentals of "green" construction". The advantages of "green" construction are shown – environmental protection from pollution, economic benefits due to cost reduction and investment attraction, improved health and comfort of people and social benefits, such as the development of local communities and improvement of their infrastructure. The multicomponent essence of the "green" construction technology requires the use of an interdisciplinary approach for its study and the involvement of specialists from various subject areas, which determines the need to revise the content of the course "Fundamentals of "green" construction" in the context of digital transformation of both the construction industry and the system of training specialists for it. The open education platform of the APE system is proposed as the technological basis for the implementation of the developed solution. The article presents the content of the enlarged thematic blocks of teaching the discipline "Fundamentals of "green" construction", and also highlights the basic characteristics of open educational platforms that allow ensuring the planned educational results of the developed course implementation. The theoretical significance of the article lies in expanding scientific understanding of the potential of studying "Fundamentals of "green" construction" based on online learning. The practical significance of the conducted study lies in disseminating knowledge in the field of "green" construction, in the formation of sustainable practice in the construction industry by providing access to a wide audience of professionals and interested parties to relevant knowledge, improving the skills of specialists due to the opportunity to exchange professional experience and implement innovative engineering and construction solutions.

The relevance of the research is due to the systemic gap between the outcomes of traditional construction personnel training and the rapidly increasing demands of the industry. Graduates often lack comprehensive integrated professional competency that synthesizes fundamental knowledge, practical skills in using modern software, and managerial and corporate competences. We see overcoming this contradiction in the strategic integration of academic and corporate university resources aimed at creating a holistic educational environment. However, the mere declaration of partnership is insufficient. Specific organizational and pedagogical mechanisms and tools are needed to ensure not episodic but systematic, manageable, and measurable interaction among all participants. Specialized project-based learning platforms are such tools, capable of becoming the digital backbone of integration. The aim is to identify and evaluate the integration potential of a digital project-based learning platform that facilitates interaction between academic and corporate components for the training of civil engineers (using the UrFU “Project Team Interaction” platform as a case study). The leading research method is an in-depth case study, implemented through a set of empirical methods including the analysis of students’ digital activity traces, a survey of three user groups (students, academic supervisors, corporate mentors), interviews, quantitative and qualitative data analysis, and statistical processing of the results. The study identified the architecture and defined the functional modules of the platform, covering the full cycle of student project management. Its application led to a significant improvement of students’ professional competences and reduced the subjective variance of final grades by making the process objective through digital activity traces. Corporate partners highly appreciated the transparency of the process and the possibility of prompt intervention, while the structured digital project portfolio increased graduates’ competitiveness in the labor market. The theoretical significance of the work lies in developing the concept of digitalization as a backbone element of integration processes in engineering education. The practical significance lies in presenting a proven model and tools that can be adapted by other technical universities to build effective industry-specific educational systems.