Construction Management (Top-Up) (Degree Apprenticeship)

Build your understanding of all the functions that make a complex construction site run smoothly, and develop your ability to manage the site's operations, on this degree apprenticeship in construction management.

You'll focus on the practical technology and operational management of building site operations, covering aspects including technology, management, finance, safety and sustainability. You'll master the logistics that keep a site running smoothly, grasp the health and safety regulations that maintain the welfare of your colleagues, and understand the effects of construction and waste on the environment.

Your study will mesh with your current job, letting you use issues from your working life as material for your study, and providing valuable learning that you can apply to your job. As you work with academic staff drawn from the positions across the construction sector, you'll develop the knowledge and behaviours required to manage construction operations, and gain insights into the sector that support your future career in this multi-billion pound industry. By focusing on the methods of managing a site, you'll equip yourself with the skills to face the future's known and unknown construction challenges.

Course highlights

• Study issues directly related to your career, and apply your learning to your current job

• Explore the subjects that affect your own job, and those that affect the stakeholders you work with

• Use industry-standard software and construction equipment in our labs and IT facilities

• Work alongside academics with knowledge and experience of the sector, and with fellow students from related industries

• Improve your career prospects with deeper, applied knowledge and skills from the construction industry

This is a new course and we’re currently finalising the detailed information for this page. You can still see entry requirements and apply.

You will study the following modules on this course:

Year 1:
Construction Technology - 20 credits
Numerical Skills and Economics - 20 credits
Safety Management On Site - 20 credits
Professionalism and Construction Practice - 20 credits

Year 2:
Procurement and Pre-Contract Practice - 20 credits
Introduction to Project Management Principles - 20 credits
Project Management for Construction - 20 credits
Sustainable Construction - 20 credits

Year 3:
Individual Project - 40 credits
Corporate and Contract Management - 20 credits
Project Evaluation and Development - 20 credits

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• Chartered Institute of Building