Building Surveying

University of Wolverhampton

The aim of this course is to equip graduates with the skills and knowledge to enable them to pursue a professional career as a Chartered Building Surveyor within the built environment.

What happens on the course?

The overall aim of this course is to equip graduates with the skills and knowledge to enable them to pursue a professional career as a Chartered Building Surveyor within the built environment; and to ensure that graduates are equipped with the appropriate building surveying knowledge and enterprising spirit to practise professionally and ethically.

Thus, the course will:

Address industry’s demand for graduates who can apply the principles of building surveying to the execution of projects and commissions.

Enable students to pursue professional careers in building surveying at a level which requires the exercise of sound judgement, and initiative, and the ability to make informed decisions in complex and unpredictable circumstances that reflect a responsible, ethical, and socially aware outlook.

Furnish students with a detailed understanding of the principles of building surveying, combined with an understanding of wider construction and property issues such as construction technology, construction economics and finance, construction contracts and law.

Provide a broadly based education in building surveying, combined with an appreciation of wider construction related areas.

Require students to participate in group projects where the project team members are drawn from a range of construction disciplines to develop collaborative working.

Develop the ability to research familiar and unfamiliar subject areas related to building surveying, thereby enhancing the application of key building surveying issues into practical situations.

Provide the opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills already gained, in an appropriate building surveying environment, thereby broadening the student’s knowledge of building surveying procedures and practices.