Loader
Course Image

Built Environment: Environmental Design and Engineering (MSc) Built Environment: Environmental Design and Engineering (MSc) University College London

University College London

Masters Degree , Construction And The Built Environment

Course Description

This leading-edge programme, established before many in the built environment field were aware of greenhouse gases, has produced a stream of high-achieving graduates sought after by the biggest names in building design and the construction industry. We attract students from across the globe eager to find positions worldwide or to take relevant, cutting-edge thinking about sustainable building design back to their own part of the world.

The programme aims to develop students' knowledge and expertise in problem solving in the area of the built environment, and provide a framework for developing innovative thinking in the design and operation of buildings, placing associated environmental issues in a global, national and personal context.

Course Content

Compulsory modules

  • The Built Environment: The Energy Context (15 credits)
  • Health, Comfort and Wellbeing in the Built Environment (15 credits)
  • Building Solar Design (15 credits)
  • Natural and Mechanical Ventilation of Buildings (15 credits)
  • Efficient Building Services Systems (15 credits)
  • Methods of Environmental Analysis (15 credits)

Optional modules

  • Advanced Building Simulation (15 credits)
  • Building Acoustics (15 credits)
  • Energy Systems Modelling (15 credits)
  • Indoor Air Quality in Buildings (15 credits)
  • Industrial Symbiosis (15 credits)
  • Light, Lighting and Wellbeing in Buildings (15 credits)
  • Low Energy Housing Retrofit (15 credits)
  • Multi Objective Design Optimisation (15 credits)
  • Post Occupancy Evaluation (15 credits)
  • Smart Energy Systems: Theory, Practice and Implementation (15 credits)
  • Systems Thinking and System Dynamics (15 credits)

The availability of all optional modules is subject to demand.

 

Entry Requirements

The normal minimum qualifications are a second-class Bachelor's degree from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard.

For applicants without a first degree or full professional membership, but with relevant and substantial work experience in the field, a special qualifying examination may be set. Details of this route can be obtained from the Bartlett's Graduate Faculty Office.

English language requirements

If your education has not been conducted in the English language, you will be expected to demonstrate evidence of an adequate level of English proficiency.

The English language level for this programme is: Standard

Additional Information

Full-time students study for 37.5 hours per week during term time. Typically, lectures and seminars occur on two days per week. Flexible mode students normally attend half this amount.

RELATED COURSES