Delivering exceptional future-fit built environment projects requires the deep-skill discipline of many individuals sharing a collective vision and purpose. Our Sustainability Leadership for the Built Environment programmes teach global best practices through project-based learning, with a focus on collaboration and leadership throughout.

It is truly interdisciplinary in the background of its staff, students and the areas it covers. The Master’s and Postgraduate Certificates are structured around emerging trends, opportunities, and challenges within the built environment such as sustainability and resilience, health and well-being, retrofit and reuse, energy efficiency and carbon, conservation and heritage, stakeholder engagement, political and regulatory landscapes.

The learning approach is highly interactive and designed to encourage reflection and debate. Students are supported by a team of expert assignment supervisors and dissertation supervisors. The speakers and facilitators are leading experts and practitioners from both academia and industry.

A key feature of the programme is the collaborative learning experience. The programmes facilitate shared learning between peers, and networking with an extensive range of contributors, together providing a rich learning environment.  

Our courses aim to:

• Build awareness regarding current challenges and opportunities facing the built environment, such as sustainability, resilience, climate change, and rapid urbanisation.
• Equip professionals with the strategic decision-making, inventive problem-solving, leadership, and collaboration skills needed to respond to the challenges and opportunities.

• Develop skills in leadership, effective collaboration, and communication for action - particularly between clients, consultants, contractors, specialists and occupiers.
   

The key themes of built environment programmes

The built environment is facing challenging global carbon reduction targets, affecting every area of the design and construction process, across public and private works. As a result, there is a phenomenal appetite for sustainability and environmental skills across every built environment role. Increasingly companies are aligning their business models and procurement processes with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

With a wide range of services and disciplines contributing to the built environment sector, inefficiencies of a fragmented workplace are a key drag on construction projects. While collaboration is frequent, interdisciplinary awareness and related management skills are seldom part of standard discipline-based education programmes and professional qualifications. High-impact leadership and seamless project management are needed. The rise of smart cities and technological transformation demands a broader, more connected ‘design-thinking’ professional.

These key themes, crucial for successful built environment projects of all types, form the basis of our programmes’ core modules:

1. Leadership, professionalism and interdisciplinary practice
2. Sustainability & resilience
3. Innovation & technology
4. Design thinking
5. Research skills

 Flexible part-time learning

Professional accreditation

Joint Board of Moderators

The Master’s is accredited by the Institution of Structural Engineers, the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institute of Highway Engineers and the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation as meeting the requirements for further learning and by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors under their project management pathway.

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

The Master’s is accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors under their project management pathway.   

The Postgraduate Certificate is not currently accredited by these institutions.

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