Program Overview

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What is Construction Project Management BSc (Hons)?

Please note: this course is open for applications for a September 2024 start.

Construction is a thriving global profession, and a Construction Project Manager (CPM) plays the central role carefully managing experts from a range of professions and trades, liaises with clients, and end users to make sure all stages of the construction project progress smoothly and complete to the expected standard, on time and to the intended budget, whether a commercial new build, retail development, residential high-rise, restoration, renovation or infrastructure project.

Recurring themes throughout our course include, lean thinking and lean construction, passive sustainability, project administration, contract practice, leadership skills and managing people, risk management, health and safety and digital construction technology including Building Information Modelling (BIM).

There is an especially strong focus on real client, real site and real issue project work and on interdisciplinary collaboration.

Our research and professional practice informed teaching will keep you informed and up to date on cutting edge technology, professional practice and industry developments.

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Study style

This degree is part of our suite of Architecture, Construction and Built Environment courses. You will be studying in our studios on projects with peers from other subjects such as Architecture, Quantity Surveying, Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture, where you develop the necessary skills to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams, within construction and built development projects.

Through lectures, you’ll develop a broad knowledge and understanding of all aspects of the project life-cycle from inception, through design phase, construction to building completion and beyond.

In the First year of your course, explore modules such as sustainable construction and design, building surveying, Building Information Modelling (BIM) and digital software. In the second and third years you’ll explore larger architectural technology and construction projects, investigate pre-contract procedures and specialisms within optional modules.

We utilise a variety of assessment methods to help you develop your academic and professional skills, such as coursework, projects, reports, essays, exams, groupwork, seminars, presentations, practical workshops and portfolio’s. Precedent study field trips in the UK and abroad are essential part of our programmes.