Building Surveying with Foundations (Honours)

Overview

On successful completion of the Foundation year, you will be able to move on to study for the Building Surveying BSc Honours degree over a further three years study.

Core modules accelerate your academic and professional development, bringing together like-minded students to think about the ‘big ideas’ within your discipline. You will also take modules from areas closely related to your chosen field, giving you the chance to develop a cross-disciplinary perspective on your course.

Career after Building Surveying with Foundations (Honours)   at University of Westminster

• Building surveying is an internationally recognised and wide-ranging professional discipline, embracing many areas of property and construction and offering opportunities to pursue careers outside the UK.

• Around the world, building surveyors deliver a wide range of professional services, not only in their traditional role, but also in associated disciplines such as project management, facilities management and construction administration. They work in many different kinds of organisations and can undertake a wide range of building surveying activities or specialise in a particular area of work such as project management, conservation, building control, party walls, and dilapidations.

• Building surveyors have specialist skills and knowledge relating to all aspects of buildings, from inception, feasibility, design and construction to their strategic and tactical management, repair, refurbishment, conversion and conservation. In addition, many are experts in compliance and implementation of building regulations and other statutory controls, building surveys for acquisition, condition surveys, diagnosis of building defects, the specification and supervision of repair work, implementing and managing maintenance work, and negotiations with adjacent property owners when building works affect adjacent property owners’ legal rights.

Accreditation

This course is fully accredited by RICS, the world's leading professional body for qualifications and standards in land, property, infrastructure and construction.