Entry year:: 2024/25
Start date:: November, May
Study mode:: Full-time
Course duration:: 1 year
Campus:: City

Course modules

What you will study on this degree

Further guidance on modules

Modules are designated core or optional in accordance with professional body requirements, as applicable, and LJMU’s Academic Framework Regulations. Whilst you are required to study core modules, optional modules provide you with an element of choice. Their availability may vary and will be subject to meeting minimum student numbers.

Where changes to modules are necessary these will be communicated as appropriate.

Core modules

Construction Research Project
40 credits

This module aims to increase skills in research, time management, presentation, written communication by completing a substantial individual piece of work; and to facilitate the opportunity to carry out independent research on a selected subject.

Risk Management
20 credits

In this module you will learn to perform a risk assessment with a specific focus of commercial aspects for a given construction project; and to advise project participants to mitigate identified risks.

Business Management and Entrepreneurship
20 credits

In this module you will learn to develop an advanced, factual, and conceptual knowledge base in contemporary Business Management and Entrepreneurship theory.

Project Finance
20 credits

This module introduces you to project economics and management techniques used in client based pre-contract design management systems and contractor based post contract cost management systems in construction.

Measurement III
20 credits

This module consolidates and builds upon your learning to date in the fields of measurement and BIM technologies and processes. You will examine the most effective quantification techniques for complex construction and engineering projects through analysis of and comparison between available measurement protocols.

Course tutors

Dr Onur Dursun

Fees and funding

Entry requirements

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Qualification requirements

Alternative qualifications considered

English language proficiency equivalent top grade C GCSE.

International requirements

Other international requirements

Higher National Diploma or Higher Diploma in Quantity Surveying as awarded by ICBT. Admission from other cognate qualifications, mapped against the LJMU Higher Diploma programme delivered by ICBT and validated by LJMU, specification no. 30847, will be considered under the LJMU RPEL procedures.

How to apply

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