Challenges in digitalization of the construction industry: training future urban planning masters

The article is devoted to the development of a new educational program “Geoinformatics and data processing in urban planning” for future masters students studying under the master's program “Urban construction and infrastructure development” at the Institute of Construction and Architecture of the Ural Federal University. The new program is based on the use of methods of statistical analysis of spatial data aimed at resolving applied urban planning problems. The program is focused on the use of digitalization in the construction industry. The structure of the educational and methodological content of the discipline includes: methodological recommendations for its use in the educational process for the teacher and the student; theoretical material of the training course; a list of basic and additional literature for studying the discipline; a set of laboratory work with guidelines for their implementation; control and measuring materials for checking the levels of assimilation of educational material when conducting traditional types of control: exams, tests, tests, term papers.