Building & Construction in UK

If you’ve completed an undergraduate engineering degree and want to continue expanding your knowledge and enhancing your skills, GCU’s MSc Building Services Engineering is for you. Master this vibrant, essential discipline and achieve eligibility for Chartered Engineer status.

Chartered building services engineers with the broad skillsets to tackle complex technical challenges are in high demand. Their work brings together expertise in both construction and engineering, offering excellent career opportunities. With the advanced post-graduate study offered by GCU’s MSc Building Services Engineering, you’ll be prepared for a successful career in this important field.

The programme is approved by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE). Together with an accredited BEng Honours degree, the MSc provides an educational foundation for you to achieve full CEng status.

• Broaden your knowledge of all technical aspects of building services design
• Gain more experience tackling a variety of diverse technical challenges
• Learn about building management
• Progress toward full CEng status

At GCU, you’ll find a welcoming community of career-focused professionals who are dedicated to the common good. While you develop your skills and increase your expertise to make a positive impact through your work, your welcoming classmates, colleagues and teachers at GCU will both challenge and support you.

The UK's historic built environment is rich and diverse, contributing to national identity, our quality of life and the country's economy and education. This course offers a unique blend of vocational and academic learning that will greatly enhance your employability within this challenging and rewarding field. The course content is specifically designed to address skill shortages within the conservation industry.

The Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management course at Robert Gordon University is a stepping stone for students who see their future careers in the financial management and leadership of projects within the built environment. It provides you with the opportunity to progress towards becoming a Chartered Surveyor and can lead to career opportunities worldwide.

The course enables you to develop construction and quantity surveying core skills through Years 1 and 2, and then apply that learning to more complex project scenarios in Years 3 and 4.

You will be challenged to provide practical solutions to real-world project scenarios drawn from industry. In the second Term of Year 3, you will have the opportunity to extend your learning in the workplace through an industrial placement.

The final year project will require you to apply the knowledge and skills acquired from the course, particularly your problem-solving, creative-thinking and collaborative skills.

• This course is accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT)
• Study a CIAT accredited course at a university which is one of only four CIAT Centres of Excellence in the UK
• Choose a course specifically designed for architects, architectural technologists, design managers, project managers, civil/structural engineers, surveyors and other construction professionals with a keen interest in BIM
• Learn how to deliver better value through integrated design and project collaboration
• Draw on our extensive industrial links and the expertise of our research-active and highly experienced staff
• Hone your skills using project collaboration simulation scenarios based on real-world practices
  • You can also choose to study this course online