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Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment
This course is aimed at practising professionals with at least three years' work experience in the built environment. It is open to architects, engineers, and all those involved in commissioning, design, construction and management. It is offered by the — Inst…
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Professional and Continuing Education · Architecture, building and planning
This course is aimed at practising professionals with at least three years' work experience in the built environment. It is open to architects, engineers, and all those involved in commissioning, design, construction and management. It is offered by the — Institute of Continuing Education in association with the Departments of Architecture and Engineering. The course aims to equip professionals for strategic decision making, inventive problem solving and team leadership; to develop skills in effective collaboration and communication, particularly between clients, consultants, contractors, specialists and occupiers; and to provide a strategic overview of the production of the built environment including current challenges faced by the construction industry such as technological innovation, global climate change, resilience and sustainability. The course is part-time and lasts for two years. During that time, students spend six separate residential weeks studying in — at three- or four-month intervals as well as taking part in an online module. Each of these residential weeks comprises an intensive programme of formal lectures (from leading practitioners and university academics), workshops and seminars, and a design project in small interdisciplinary teams.
Getting in
As the university states it
Applicants for this course will normally have achieved a UK 2.i honours degree or overseas equivalent. In addition to the academic entrance requirement, applicants need to have at least 3 years of professional experience in the built environment since graduating. Applicants whose 1st language is not English should have an IELTS score of 7.5 (a minimum of 7.0 in each individual component).
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