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Building Surveying

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  • Undergraduate
LSBU Main Site - Southwark Campus
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Course summary

This course is for students who wish to obtain an honours degree in surveying accredited by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). It focuses on the core skills that are needed to become a chartered building surveyor. Surveyors are involved in the building industry, both in building inspections and in construction projects.
These include compulsory subjects, such as, environmental awareness, law, health and safety, business management, and information technology. Future graduate students will be expected to have studied these topics before progressing on to the Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) training schemes approved and run through RICS.

Modules

Course Modules

Year 1: Building services and environmental science / Building survey and inspection / Construction technology and materials / Construction technology and structures / Legal and economic context / Supporting studies Year 2: Construction contract law / Estate and property asset management / Planning and development controls / Property inspection, repair and maintenance / Theory of architecture, design and conservation / Sustainable construction and the environment Year 3: Research paper / Project management / Management of the firm / Contract practice and administration / European construction property / Property law and valuation

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • LSBU Main Site - Southwark Campus

Study options

  • Bachelor of Science (with Honours) • Full-Time • Placement (mandatory) • 4 Years
  • Bachelor of Science (with Honours) • Full-Time • 3 Years

Start dates

Application codes

Institution code:
L75

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Application codes

Institution code:
L75

This course may be available at alternative locations, please check if other course options are available.

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Entry requirements

Typical qualification requirements

A level
BBB

UCAS Tariff
120-128

Access to HE Diploma
Distinction: 24 Merit: 21

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
DDM

Applicants must hold GCSE Maths grade C or above (reformed GCSEs grade 4 or above)

English language requirements

English Language Requirements for International and EU Applicants: IELTS 6.0 (the minimum score required in each skill area is 5.5) or TOEFL IBT Overall 80 or 4 in new scoring from 2025 with a minimum of 17 in Listening, and Writing, 18 in Reading and 20 in Speaking or 4.0 in the new scoring system or Pearson Test of English Academic 52 (the minimum score required in each skill area is 51)

Historical entry grades data

This section shows the range of grades that students who received offers were previously accepted on to this course with (learn more).

It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place.

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

Per year tuition fees

LocationFeeYear
England, Scotland, Wales & Northern IrelandTBC

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.

Additional fee information

Read fees and funding information at https://www.lsbu.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/fees-and-funding

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