Construction Management

Buildings are about so much more than bricks and mortar. Consider how they live, breathe, and behave, on our HNC Construction Management course, as you take an active role in exploring the science, technology, and teamwork behind modern construction. Get hands on with building technology, practise precise site surveying, test materials and renewable systems, design with AutoCAD, create prototypes through 3D printing, and learn to coordinate people and resources to keep projects moving.

Dive into construction by doing it! Survey real sites, model ideas, make components, and manage project scenarios that mirror industry practice. Each task builds the skills you need to design, construct, and oversee the places that shape daily life, with learning that stays practical, immersive, and enjoyable throughout.

Join a programme that has supported Scotland’s construction sector for more than two decades by helping our students move into roles in project management, surveying, architectural technology, civil engineering, and planning. Whether you’re starting fresh or developing existing experience, there are clear pathways laid out for you to pursue further qualifications and progress in your profession. Many of our past students have progressed on to studying architecture, project management, civil engineering, and environmental engineering, going on to shape the industry as chartered quantity surveyors, building surveyors, contracts managers, clerks of works, estimators, buyers, site managers, lecturers, and many more.

Bring your unique potential to our experienced team and let us help you realise it. Graduate ready to influence the industry: the rest becomes your success story.

Module outline

Year 1 - HNC

Mandatory units are:

• Construction management: graded unit 1

• Construction materials and specification

• Construction site surveying A

• Construction technology: industrial/commercial superstructure

• Construction technology: substructure

• Site administration

• Standard forms of construction contracts

Option units may include:

• Architectural design sketching and drawing

• Building information modelling (BIM): principles

• Building services: an introduction

• CAD 2D1

• Construction planning

• Construction technical communication skills

• Construction technology: domestic construction

• Estimating

• Financial studies for the construction industry

• Health and safety in construction

• Managing construction organisations

• Mathematics for construction

• Personnel development planning

• Quality in construction

• Renewable energy systems: microgeneration systems

• Structural mechanics

Option units available may vary depending on study location, for more information contact your chosen campus.

This outline reflects the modules as currently delivered and is subject to change.