Construction Management (Hons) University of Portsmouth

Overview

Throughout this Construction Management (Hons) degree course offered at University of Portsmouth , you'll visit potential future workplace environments and apply your knowledge to practical scenarios from real companies, working through development proposals and examining the suitability of suggested designs, simulating the responsibilities required of a successful construction manager.

Graduate with the technological, interpersonal and management skills you need to launch into a career in this rapidly changing field. 

Key facts:

• Focus on new construction technologies that offer new solutions to building site challenges. 
• Become confident in key theories and principles that contribute to construction practice, through practical work on field studies and labs in areas including measurement, materials and site surveying
• Develop your understanding of financial methods and managerial logistics, from health and welfare to procurement, delivery and safe disposal of site waste.
• Have the option to study modules that match your interests and career ambitions such as practical diving and underwater engineering, sustainability, heritage property and applied building information modelling (BIM)
• Benefit from the expertise of our Industrial Advisory Committee, a network of construction organisations and senior practitioners who inform your modules and offer placement opportunities
• Have the opportunity to take a work placement year abroad

All our courses go through a rigorous approval process to make sure they’re of the highest quality. This includes a review by a panel of experts, made up of academic staff and an external academic or professional with specialist knowledge.

This course is in the final stages of this process and is open for applications. If any details of the course or its approval status change after you apply, we’ll let you know as soon as possible and will be here to discuss your options with you.

Career opportunities:

Previous construction students have gone on to work in areas such as:

• project management
• site engineering
• site management

Construction graduates have also achieved membership of the Chartered Institute of Builders, the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers, and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

Graduate destinations

Our construction graduates have worked for companies such as:

• Balfour Beatty
• Ministry of Defence
• Peter Marsh Consulting
• Multiplex Construction Limited

• British Army 

What jobs can you do with a Construction Management degree?

Roles they've taken on include:

• civil engineering contractor
• construction engineer