Sustainable Built Environments, Energy and Resources UCL

Overview

The time to act on climate change is now. We need a new generation of experts with the skills to make our buildings, towns and cities more sustainable, healthier places to live. 

Are you ready to join a new generation of sustainability experts helping to make our buildings, towns and cities more sustainable, healthier places to live? In the face of climate crisis, we need a sustainable built environment that is both climate-resilient and resource-efficient. 

 University College London (UCL)’s Sustainable Built Environments, Energy and Resources BSc and MEng is a unique solution-oriented undergraduate degree that combines every aspect of sustainability, from social and environmental science to resource economics and engineering, to give you the skills needed to take decisive climate action and help build a sustainable future. 

You will learn:

• Social, environmental and economic theories, and how these can be used to address climate change, achieve net-zero emissions, and improve health and wellbeing in the built environment.
• How to use data analysis, modelling and advanced decision-making processes to design, construct, operate sustainable buildings, neighbourhoods and cities.
• How to use important digital tools and software used in sustainability to provide creative solutions to real-world problems.
• Essential maths and statistics required to work in sustainability, learning through real-life examples with additional support provided.
• The key challenges facing sustainable built environments, including heritage, health and culture, and how to overcome them.

• Leadership, critical thinking, communication, problem-solving and other employable transferrable skills.

Career

You will develop a holistic view of sustainability and the built environment. You will be able to create sustainability strategies that take into account uncertainties and complexities using skills from a combination of academic disciplines, an ability that will be attractive to employers.