Construction and The Built Environment
UCAS Code: 83K9
Higher National Diploma - HND
Entry requirements
A level
Access to Higher Education Diploma requires candidates to accumulate 60 credits, at least 45 of which are at Level 3.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
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About this course
The HND Construction and Built Environment course is intended as a vocational qualification within the construction industry. It satisfies the educational base for becoming an Associate Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (AssocRICS) or Associate Membership of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) once requisite employment experience has been gained post HND qualification.
In addition, it provides a progression route onto professionally accredited courses within the Department including the BSc (Hons) degrees of Building Surveying, Construction Management, Commercial Management & Quantity Surveying and Quantity Surveying.
The construction and built environment industry is the UK’s largest industry,employing circa 2.35 million people and accounting for typically 8% of UK GDP. The construction industry is responsible for the design, management and construction of spanning the following areas;
• Infrastructure – roads, rail, airports, power stations
• Residential - public and private housing, including repair and maintenance
• Non-domestic buildings - schools, colleges, hospitals, offices, retail, factories, warehouses.
The aim of this course is to develop students with a technical understanding of the civil engineering industry including the application of proven techniques and theories for the solution of real life problems. Thus the course will;
· address industry’s demand for technicians who can integrate the principles and applications of construction, and apply them to construction projects, in a technical context.
· enable students to advance their existing careers in construction to a higher level which requires the exercise of technical professional judgement, and the ability to make decisions that reflect an accountable and ethical outlook.
· equip students with a technical understanding of the fundamentals of construction technology, construction law, construction procurement and contracts, environmental and sustainable issues, modern methods of construction and construction project management.
· provide a broadly based education in construction and built environment, allowing scope for continued development into a wide range of disciplines within construction related areas including areas of design (building surveying, architecture), costs and finance (quantity surveying) and project delivery (construction management).
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University of Wolverhampton
School of Architecture and Built Environment
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Want to take a degree that is definitely in demand? Try building! We're short of graduates in this area, so most graduates get jobs quickly. Building graduates make excellent surveyors, and that's currently one of the jobs that employers find hardest to fill, so there are great opportunities available of you want to try your hand at a surveying career. Building graduates also go into jobs in site and project management and other high skilled parts of the construction industry. There are jobs to be had in most parts of the country, so if you're technically-inclined and want to work somewhere specific, it might be worth considering this as an option. Building graduates are more likely than most to start their career with an employer who gave them work experience, so it’s particularly worth trying to secure links with industry if you take this degree.
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