Construction Project Management

Program Overview

This accredited postgraduate program in Construction Project Management equips aspiring professionals with advanced knowledge in management, finance, and law within the construction industry. It provides a network for professionals and a flexible study mode for busy construction professionals, offering career advancement opportunities and meeting Continuing Professional Development requirements. The program is recognized by industry accreditations and is well-established with a strong history in educating construction professionals.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This accredited postgraduate course is designed for individuals seeking to advance their careers in client organizations or consultancy. It provides aspiring professionals with the opportunity to network with other ambitious and successful individuals within the construction and development industries. The program focuses on both practical and theoretical aspects of management in organizational and project-based contexts. Management subjects are complemented by advanced financial appraisal techniques and finance, with a specific emphasis on construction and development law. This course meets all Continuing Professional Development requirements and provides evidence for upgrading professional institution membership. The afternoon/evening study mode is suitable for even the busiest construction professionals and offers an excellent opportunity to network with other ambitious professionals and their organizations.

Outline:

Course Content:

The program covers a comprehensive range of topics related to construction project management, including:

• Corporate and project finance: This module deals with the financial management of firms related to the construction industries and the appraisal of investment in these firms and in construction projects.
It covers financial structure, stock market appraisal, accounting conventions and appraisal, project evaluation applied to capital investment and development opportunities, and management of project cash flow and risks.
• Construction law: This module examines the various types of construction contracts, including families of standard construction contracts, and the common law, legislation, and administrative procedures that govern them.
It provides a working knowledge and understanding of construction contract legal problems and related applicable law, such as non-contractual liabilities. It examines when a dispute arises in legal terms and how dispute resolution methods may be employed to resolve problems and disputes.
• Project evaluation: This module focuses on the range of techniques used by construction professionals to appraise and manage cost and value in construction projects.
• Dissertation: This module provides the opportunity for students to undertake an independent piece of research, investigating in depth a subject in which they have a particular interest and of their own selection.
Each student will submit a dissertation of between 15,000-20,000 words. The module includes teaching of research methods.

Option Modules:

• Advanced measurement and documentation
• Behavioral finance
• Building control
• Building Information Modelling and Collaborative Working
• Health and safety management in construction
• History of architecture and construction
• International real estate and construction
• Legal resolution of property and construction disputes

Course Structure:

Full-time Mode:

• Semester 1:
• Corporate and Project Finance
• Procurement and Management of Construction
• Management of People and Information
• Construction Law
• Option Module
• Semester 2:
• Project Evaluation
• Dissertation

Part-time Mode (Year 1):

• Semester 1:
• Corporate and Project Finance
• Procurement and Management of Construction
• Management of People and Information
• Semester 2:
• Construction Law
• Option Module
• Project Evaluation
• Dissertation

Part-time Mode (Year 2):

• Semester 1:
• Construction Law
• Option Module
• Project Evaluation

Careers:

Employment Prospects:

Employment prospects are excellent. Successful students enter a variety of roles in client organizations, professional practices, local authorities, housing associations, and major contracting companies.

Transferable Skills:

The department has recently set up a Building Information Modelling (BIM) Centre to provide a research and enterprise facility linking the University with industry. It is designed to foster knowledge creation and exchange in BIM by connecting staff and students with practitioners in an increasingly interdisciplinary world.

Accreditations:

• The PgDip Construction Project Management is fully accredited by the Association for Project Management.
• The MSc is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Building.
• The MSc is fully accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (this will allow entry to RICS Project Management Faculty through the Assessment of Professional competence).

Expertise and History:

London South Bank University has a long history of educating professionals for the building-related industries. With roots in London Council School of Building (1904), Brixton School of Building (1940), we have been offering training for this sector for over 100 years. Today, we are expert at attracting property and construction students from the UK and around the world. Today, according to the Guardian PG subject tables 2013, we are the largest School of Building and Town Planning in the UK (combining full-time and part-time modes of study) and our building graduates have the best employment prospects in London (Complete University Guide 2014). Our current students and alumni hold key positions in their organization, often as senior managers and business owners.

• UK fee: £13986.67
• International fee: £20666.67
• Tuition fees are subject to annual inflationary increases.
• Possible fee changes
• The fees for international students are reviewed annually and the University reserves the right to increase the tuition fees in line with the RPIX measure of inflation up to 4 per cent.