MSc/PGDip/PGCert Construction Project Management

• We normally require an honours degree of 2.2 or above in Architecture, Architectural Engineering, Architectural Technology, Building, Building Services Engineering, Building Surveying, Building Technology, Civil Engineering, Construction Engineering, Construction Management, Construction Technology, Quantity Surveying, Real Estate, Urban, Development & Regional Planning.
• We can consider applicants who have a degree in a different subject, but who do have relevant professional experience or qualifications. We can also consider applicants who do not have a degree but have significant relevant professional experience or qualifications. In your application, you should describe in detail your professional experience and qualifications.
• International students who do not meet the academic or English language requirements to study this course can qualify by completing preparatory study at our International College.

The full Master's course comprises 180 credits divided into three 60 credits stages: Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma, and Master's. Students work incrementally through the three stages and must pass all modules at each stage in order to progress to the next.

The course is structured to support you as you explore the nature of projects in relation to organisations, and their commercial and public environment. This includes managing teams that analyse client value and risk associated with environmental issues, and the forms of procurement and contract available.

You will consider the use of information technology in managing projects, together with organisational change and innovation, and study the planning and control of projects in relation to the organisations that contribute to and manage the process.

We review modules regularly to ensure they're relevant to the latest trends and events, but the overall aims and content themes remain the same. The following core modules are indicative of the course structure:  

• Project Management Principles (15 credits) - This module gives you holistic view of a generic project. It looks at the lifecycle of project management, and choosing project management tools and techniques strategically to suit specific situations and economic sectors.
• BIM in Design Co-ordination (15 credits) - You'll develop an advanced understanding of building information modelling (BIM) approaches to retrieving, analysing and integrating information to aid and refine design decision-making. We look at a selection of BIM tools and their application to generation, review, analysis, simulation, communication and coordination of design information.
• BIM in Construction Operation (15 credits) - This module applies BIM approaches to construction planning and operations, and considers a range of issues, including simulation of construction schedules and logistics, buildability scenario forecasting and clash detection.
• Sustainability in the Built Environment (15 credits) - Designed to give you a greater awareness of the interplay between environmental, social and economic issues and to develop holistic thinking to identify and implement strategic decisions for the sustainability of the built environment.
• Managerial Finance for the Built Environment (15 credits) - A critical evaluation of financial management from the non-financial manager's point of view. It gives you a firm grounding in the interpretation of published accounts and other financial data, and introduces management accounting in areas such as budget control, investment appraisal and cost behaviour.
• Construction Procurement (15 credits) - The module examines best practice in connection with the procurement of buildings and large-scale engineering projects. It looks at ways to maintain a customer focus and control over the whole supply chain.
• Construction Project Management Practice (15 credits) - Here you begin to integrate your project manager skills and practice, by focussing on a case study of a project and analysing the environment, client objectives, feasibility, strategy and implementation of the project.
• Construction Contract Law (15 credits) - The module examines the allocation of risk in the context of the conditions of standard contracts, and assesses the roles, management and applications over a range of legal documents including letters of intent and collateral warranties.

Dissertation (60 credits)

This is a major part of the course, where you plan and carry out a research project. You'll have expert supervision from a member of staff. The module also provides a critique of research methods.