Built Environment (Building Engineering Services) Higher Apprenticeship

Year 1

Building services engineers are responsible for the design, installation and maintenance of systems in new and existing buildings, such as heating, lighting, water supplies, plumbing, control systems and fire, security and alarm systems. You will need the following skills and qualities: a careful, methodical and accurate approach to your work, an understanding of mathematics and science and the ability to work well in a team.
The Higher Apprenticeship in Sustainable Built Environment provides vocational knowledge and skills necessary to those pursuing a career in a variety of disciplines including architecture, surveying, planning, maintenance, construction management, building services or civil engineering.

You will have the opportunity to apply critical reasoning and analysis techniques to solve built environment and engineering problems using industry standards, appropriate codes of practice and work-based evidence thereby developing personal and business skills which will enable you to contribute to the demands of a professional environment.
There are three pathways available so you can specialise in construction and the built environment, building services engineering or civil engineering.
Sixteen modules are required to complete the HND.
Some of the units covered on the course depending on the pathway selected include:
Design and management principles
Energy utilisation and efficiency

In year two you will cover the following modules:
Civil engineering construction
Measuring, tendering and estimating
Site surveying procedures
Science and materials
Health, safety and welfare
Programme Specifications