Building Surveying

Awards

Target Award

Award Description:Bachelor of Science with Honours - BSH

Alternative Exit

Award Description:Diploma in Higher Education (SW) - SDHE

Award Learning Outcomes:Identify and explain the underlying concepts and principles associated with Building Surveying. Recognise and analyse building technologies employed in the construction of domestic, industrial and commercial buildings including modern methods of construction. Recognise and analyse the pathological processes resulting in the degradation and failure of building components and materials Apply surveying methods, and summarise building surveying knowledge and skills in order to systematically detect building defects. Effectively use general and specific IT tools and software in building surveying tasks and projects. Work effectively as a member of a collaborative project group. Communicate effectively via different methods including written reports, portfolios, graphical posters and verbal presentations.

Recruitable Target

Alternative Exit

Award Description:Diploma of Higher Education - DHE

Accreditation

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

Programme Offerings

Full-Time

F2F-JMU-SEP

Sandwich Year Out

F2F-JMU-SEP

Educational Aims of the Course

To provide students with an understanding and appreciation of, and enthusiasm for the Building Surveying discipline. To provide fundamental knowledge in meeting the competency requirements for the RICS Building Surveying pathway, including technical knowledge about building construction and defects; design practice knowledge with regard to refurbishment projects; legal knowledge including contract and property law; and management and professional practice knowledge. To provide students with an appreciation of the impact of changing social, economic, legal, environmental, technological, business and political frameworks so they can make an effective contribution within a global, national and local context. To provide a well-balanced education which allows the student to achieve their full academic potential at first degree level and in doing so to facilitate the development of independent logical thought and judgement. To enable the student to develop their intellectual, critical, analytical and reflective thinking within an evidence and research-based framework associated with the role of a building surveying professional. To produce a basis for general professional experience and to encourage consciousness of the professional, business and commercial environment, considering all regulatory aspects and working in an inclusive environment. For students undertaking a placement year, an additional aim is to provide students with an extended period of work experience with an approved employer that will complement their academic programme of study, and enable students to develop professional skills relevant for a career in building surveying.

Teaching, Learning and Assessment

Teaching sessions include lectures and tutorials; workshop sessions in a classroom or PC-lab; practical property surveying sessions on site using the exemplar houses, or off-site on an organized site visit; participation in a group project; and field work on the optional residential field trip. Assessment methods include examinations; written essays and reports; oral presentations; preparation of posters; visual designs using Revit; work placement reports (if applicable).

Opportunities for work related learning

The programme offers a work placement year, providing a work-based learning opportunity for students studying the programme in sandwich mode. The programme has active links with industry and involves employers in the project-based modules at levels 4, 5 and 6. Real world case studies and project scenarios are used wherever possible. For example Level 4 students typically meet built environment professionals on-site to help contextualise passive design theory with practice. Level 5 students will work on actual buildings with practitioners for the 'Sustainable Buildings Project' to analyse building performance, identify problems and recommend solutions. At Level 6 the programme team will work with the Building Surveying Industrial Liaison Panel to identify appropriate and current Building Surveying scenarios for the 'Professional Project'. The programme and wider School also has active links with the professional body (RICS) and typically students at all Levels will benefit from an organised professional body guest speakers and meetings to help prepare students for professional practice and employment.

Programme Structure

Programme Structure Description

The programme will offer the opportunity of 60 credits of study abroad at Level 5. Students will be enrolled on a 360 credit honours with study abroad programme. A 60 credit Level 5 study abroad module 5300BESABS will normally replace the semester 2 modules on the standard programme. This study abroad should cover the same learning outcomes as the modules being replaced. The modules to be studies in the host institution must be agreed in advance. The Level 5 mean for the final award will be calculated based upon the 120 credits at Level 5. Students have the option to undertake a placement year. The placement year, module 5200BESWBS, will follow Level 5 and students will be enrolled on a 480 credit Honours Sandwich programme. The Level 5 mean for the final award mark will be calculated based upon the 240 credits at Level 5. Students successfully completing the assessment of the placement year are eligible for the Sandwich award. Students not undertaking a placement year are registered on the non-Sandwich version of the programme and will have the opportunity of an additional study year abroad following Level 5. Students will be enrolled on a 480 credit honours with study abroad programme. Of those 480 credits, 120 will be taken via a Level 5 study abroad module 5200BESABS. The modules to be studied in the host institution must be agreed in advance. The Level 5 mean for the final award mark will be calculated based upon the 240 credits at Level 5. This programme structure only applies to students joining level 4 of the programme from September 2022. Students who joined prior to that date will follow the previously validated programme structure.

Structure

Level 4

Level 5

Level 5 Core

Optional placement

Optional Study Semester

Level 6

Entry Requirements

A levels

Alternative qualifications considered

BTECs

International Baccalaureate

NVQ

Other international requirements

HECoS Code(s)

(CAH13-01) architecture, building and planning

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