Course Details

Foundation Year:

• Academic and Professional Skills: Concentration on study skills needed to perform at universities such as report writing, research and critical thinking skills.
• Introduction to the Built Environment: Introduces the role and the regulation of the industry as well as the principles of construction.
• Mathematics for Construction: Accounts for all aspects of measurement, numerical and geometrical knowledge, as well as budgetary and financial outlooks for construction management.
• Introduction to Construction Technology: Covers the simplest fundamentals of construction procedures, types of construction materials and environmental factors that are involved in construction.

Year 1:

• Construction Materials and Methods: Learn about the types of construction material and how they are dealt with in construction site and how they are handled.
• Construction Project Management: Understand what basic principles of planning and control construction project time, cost, resources.
• Health, Safety, and Welfare in Construction: Discusses on the safety regulations and how the regulations help and or hinder the organizations and institutions to meet the health and safety standards in the current industry.

Year 2:

• Sustainable Construction: Review recent trends in building construction processes with a focus on green material, energy conservation, and effects on the surround environment.
• Construction Contracts and Law: Learn about the contracts as well as the legal procedures in the construction that relates to differences and legal dimensions that require compliance.
• Construction Technology and Innovation: Find out about the new trends in the construction sector including the BIM (Building Information Modeling) and automated constructional processes.

Year 3:

• Advanced Project Management: Concentration should be placed on the strategic project management, leadership of construction teams and better decision making.
• Financial Management for Construction: Learn about the proper approaches to financial control in construction project site, expenses control and budgetary control.
• Dissertation or Major Project: Complete a research study or a significant practical exercise having an area of focus within construction management.