MSc Offsite Housing Construction with Professional Practice Placement

Module: 7CN001

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will develop construction project skills, identify, review and analyse project management best practice guidelines and discuss aspects of planning and controlling projects. Evaluation of industry techniques and tools, using manual and computer methods for planning and control will be undertaken.

Module: 7AT003

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

Building Information Modelling (or BIM) is fast becoming an integral aspect of the construction industry. This new approach goes beyond the norms of Computer Aided Design (CAD) and opens up the possibility to integrate 3D modelling and digital information into the entire construction process. In this module you will critically investigate and analyse the theory behind BIM and how it is implemented throughout all phases of the design and construction process. We will look at the financial and business benefits that BIM can offer and how new emerging technologies and standards impact on its application for designers, constructors and facilities managers. In addition we will also look at the practical implementation of BIM through the use of industry standard software tools.

Module: 7CN028

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The aim of this module is to provide students with in-depth knowledge and understanding of housing construction for the 21st century. The module will review strategic level requirements surrounding the need for housing, in respect to regulatory frameworks as well as developing an understanding of how the form and function that housing should adapt to suit changing demographics. Drawing a range of multidisciplinary sources including urban planning, architecture, geography, sociology, technology and issues around brownfield regeneration, the module will understand how the nature of housing will evolve. From this, the module will identify how emerging materials and construction processes can be exploited to meet the needs of future houses and will identify how emerging technologies can be implemented for the sustainable design, construction and operation of future houses.

Module: 7ET023

Credits: 60

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The MSc Dissertation enables you to undertake an in-depth individual research project in an area directly linked to your subject area and interests. This will ensure that you undertake scholarly work that further develops an aspect of the taught material and thereby contributes to your personal development and training towards professional practice. This module evidences your transformation from undergraduate to master’s level achievement through the process and production of a recognised research output in your subject area.

Module: 7CN029

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

.This module will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of innovation and how innovation can be managed in the offsite construction process. The concept of innovation will be explored including discussion of typologies, prevailing standards for managing innovation and the differentiation between push and pull innovation management. The implications of innovation on offsite construction will then be explored in more depth including the core need for innovation in housebuilding and how quality can be maintained. Drivers and barriers of innovation in offsite construction will be analysed, including issues around managing this in relation to the product, business, process and organisation.

Module: 7CN031

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will enable students to gain valuable industrial experience by undertaking a work placement. A portfolio will be used to gather records of the tasks undertaken and experienced gained

Module: 7ET022

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

By studying this module you will develop the personal and professional skills required to design and undertake research in your chosen subject area at post graduate level.

Module: 7CN005

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The strategic management of the business case for programmes and projects from the concept, design and definition stages through to implementation of the built or finished product. Strategic advice and management to and for the client including finance and investment.

This course will be delivered from our £100 million Springfield Campus. From this campus, our School of Architecture and Built Environment is strategically positioned to enhance your attainment in a vibrant, professional and supportive learning environment with state-of-the-art learning technology and facilities. Dealing with both the technical and softer people-related attributes of effective offsite construction project delivery from initiation to commissioning, you will have the opportunity to gain comprehensive knowledge and experience through real-world and work-based projects.

On successful completion of the course, you will:

• Appraise, critically analyse, and evaluate offsite construction processes including how this can be strategically implemented and effectively managed with respect to operational contexts.
• Analyse a range of methods to identify requirements for the design of offsite housing solutions in a particular socio-cultural context using complex, incomplete, or contradictory evidence.
• Select and justify the use of a range of technological processes for the implementation of offsite construction, including use of advanced design software.
• Examine the legal context of implementing offsite construction in particular for the housing sector with due regard for ethical and political constraints.
• Acquire knowledge through academic, industrial and practical research and apply solutions to a range of complex issues, adopting suitable approaches to problem-solving and decision-making.
• Take responsibility for and organise your own learning through self-management and independent study, and continue to advance your own knowledge and understanding while developing new skills to a high level.

Location Mode Fee Year Home/EU Full-time £7112 per year 2020-21 Home Full-time £7278 per year 2021-22 International Full-time £14834 per year 2020-21 International Full-time £14950 per year 2021-22

These fees relate to new entrants only for the academic year indicated for entry onto the course, any subsequent years study may be subject to an annual increase, usually in line with inflation.

A second-class honours degree in a construction related discipline, or equivalent, is required for direct entry onto the Master’s programme. Students are selected using application form and references in the first instance. However, if you have a compatible non-cognate degree and/or have relevant industrial experience you may be interviewed and if successful offered a place on the Masters course or on the postgraduate certificate version of the course with the potential to extend this to a full Master’s degree. or A Postgraduate Certificate in a construction related discipline, or a related subject with a minimum of grade C in all modules.

International Applicants

Your qualifications need to be deemed equivalent to the above entry requirements.

• English Language requirements are normally IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 6.0 in each area (unless otherwise stated) or equivalent accepted qualification
• Please use the following link to see the range of English Language Pre-Sessional courses and related Pre-Masters courses offered by the University of Wolverhampton International Academy.
• For further information relating to overseas qualification please use the following link

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Postgraduate Loan (Home Fee Status):

You may be able to get a postgraduate student loan from Student Finance England of up to £11,750 to help pay for a Master’s degree. Applications are made through Student Finance England and more information on the regulations and eligibility criteria can be found at Masters Loans gov.uk