HND Construction and the Built Environment
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Bachelor's degree
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Wolverhampton
The HND Construction and Built Environment course is intended as a vocational qualification within the construction industry. It satisfies the educational base for becoming an Associate Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (AssocRICS) or Associate Membership of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) once requisite employment experience has been gained post HND qualification.
In addition, it provides a progression route onto professionally accredited courses within the Department including the BSc (Hons) degrees of Building Surveying, Construction Management, Commercial Management & Quantity Surveying and Quantity Surveying.
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The HND Construction and Built Environment has been designed to cater for a range of students from school leavers who wish to pursue a career in construction to existing construction practitioners and trainees who want to further their professional development and career skills within the industry.
The Built Environment Team, at the University of Wolverhampton, engage closely with the students and have extensive industry experience and links to local and regional employers. This enables the staff and students to get to know each other well and to develop personal relationships which help with both study success and working with students to enhance their employability prospects. The Built Environment Team have a proven record in placing students on completion of their studies and ensuring that progression to a higher qualification is seen by students as a seamless process.
Lecturers on this course are a blend of respected academics and experienced professionals. Students are therefore exposed to a sound theoretical base coupled with numerous practical examples and exercises.
The Built Environment Team has excellent links with recognised professional bodies, namely the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Chartered Institute of Building and Quantity Surveyors International (QSi) who all regularly hold events at the University to which students can attend to network with construction professionals.
Students are actively encouraged to become student members of these professional bodies at the start of their studies and utilise the professional resources available as a result. Upon completion of the course students can apply to become associate members of the RICS, CIOB or QSi when appropriate employment experience has been gained and the specific application process of the institution has been met.
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Subjects
- Construction Training
- Built Environment
- Construction
- Design
- Surveying
Course programme
Module: 4CN030
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The Architecture and the Built Environment Industries project management systems are heavily built around document control and relating events such as change orders, submittals, transmittals and requests for information (RFIs). These functionalities are usually forming the core of electronic data/document management systems (EDMS) that are widely used by contractors and construction management consultants. The content of EDMS, i.e. documents in the form of individual files and their details can have contractual role and implications. The emphasis of this module is to introduce the student to the latest digital infrastructure around us and the way it is affecting all businesses including the wider construction sector. Various applications of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have aleady taken over mechanical business and public service data operations and the aim is to introduce Building Information Modeling (BIM) and the latest data management systems to students inthe context of the industry.
Module: 4CN006
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The module aims to develop your knowledge and understanding of various methods of communication used in business and industrial environments; and introduce the built environment student to the world of your specific discipline
Module: 4CN016
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module has two educational aims; First, it aims to introduce you to the study of economics in the context of the built environment in the UK. It examines the basic economic principles that underpin and influence the operation of the built environment and construction sectors in the UK and to develop your understanding of the sources, disposition and control of capital for construction companies and in the development of real estate. Secondly it aims to apply your knowledge of viable construction projects as a member of a group tasked with planning a built solution.
Module: 4CN027
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The principal aim of this module is to introduce the student to the initial and preparatory professional skills which are aligned to their relevant built environment professional discipline.
Module: 4CN001
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The principal aim of this module is to develop an understanding of the English legal system, building regulations and law of contract; and introduce the legal aspects of procurement, tendering procedures, forms of contract as applicable to construction projects.
Module: 4CN002
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The module aims to develop your knowledge and understanding of low rise construction, provide an introduction to common construction materials and environmental interactions
Module: 5CN010
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The principal aim of this module is to develop your understanding of the key professional relationships between the various disciplines involved in the management of construction projects. This including the development of team working skills through completion of a group based project where you are brought together into teams within which a set of structured / interrelated tasks are undertaken in order to develop your personal attributes, self management, communication and problem solving skills in a team environment.
Module: 5CN001
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The purpose of this module is to enable you to develop and apply principles and applications of construction technologies related to high rise structures, commercial and industrial buildings. Aspects of civil engineering and building services technology will also be investigated
Module: 5CN022
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
There is a dual aim to this module. The first aim is to develop your knowledge and application of the legal framework in which the built environment, property and construction industries operate. The second aim is to build on existing, and further develop knowledge of health and safety in the built environment, raising your awareness of the legal, personal and organisational responsibilities built environment professionals have. These aims will be achieved by the study of the legal frameworks from which legislation and other controls stem and contextualising them into a built environment context.
Module: 5CN007
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The module aims to provide an opportunity to you to develop an analytical appreciation of design. It considers the aspects of spatial and structural design in the context of the 20th and 21st century British Built Environment. The role of non-design professionals and project teams are considered and their contributions to the development of building designs. At the end of the module, you will be able to identify theoretical contributions to design and develop analytical skills in design management.
Module: 5CN038
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module incorporates the key aspects in the practices of Quantity and Building Surveying and Construction Managment and Estate Management. The aim is to introduce the main principles of these disciplines to students.
Module: 5CN029
Credits: 20
Period: 2
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HND Construction and the Built Environment
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Engineering Institute of Technology
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City College Norwich
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West Lothian College
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ElectaCourse
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Weymouth College
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Shrewsbury College of Arts & Technology
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Mitnorth
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