BSc (Hons) CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT (WITH FOUNDATION YEAR)

Key areas you’ll study include the planning and financing of projects, required contract law and of course health and safety knowledge – both for yourself and others.

Building without proper planning can be a dangerous business when it comes to working at heights, excavating and shifting materials. You’ll learn how to manage it and make it safe.


You’ll also learn about sustainable design. Plus, you’ll look at the contractual side of things, and how to ensure sub-contractors work to the required standards.


Among the modules you’ll study on the course are: Building Technology and Materials: Advanced Technology, Planning and Production; Legal and Regulatory Framework; Contract Law in Construction; Tendering, Estimating and Cost Control; Sustainable Building Technology; and Project Management Studies.


Think of a triangle with three points – time, cost and quality. Time planning and logistics, cost control and management, and quality control are vital skills for a construction manager, and they’re skills employers will be looking for when you graduate.

Thanks to our excellent links with industry, graduates from this course have gone on to work on projects all over the world.

Some have been involved with UK construction projects such as the Shard and the Olympic Athletes’ Village in Stratford. Others have travelled internationally to areas of dynamic regeneration such as Dubai or Qatar.

Many of our overseas students go back to work in countries such as Nigeria and Malaysia

Your most likely job on graduation will be an assistant site manager, working in a role where you have responsibility for a broad range of activities. If you perform impressively on site, and deal well with people, you could soon find yourself taking responsibility for really large projects.

A typical project will take 18 months or two years, during which time you’ll be working very closely with a wide variety of people performing different jobs.

Say you’re working on a rail project, or on the London Underground. Work often needs to be scheduled for weekends and Bank Holidays.

You might spend six months planning for one Bank Holiday weekend, booking in equipment, materials and labour. Imagine the satisfaction you’ll feel when everything you have planned for comes together.

It’s a hugely challenging but hugely rewarding area of employment.

FROM
A LEVEL
Must include passes at A2 in at least 1 subject
FROM
BTEC
Extended Diploma or Diploma
FROM
INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE
Diploma with 24 points including a minimum of 15 points at Higher Level