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MSc - Master of Science
Abertay University
Full Time
Jan 2027
16 Month
You’ll learn how to manage construction projects of all sizes successfully and sustainably. The programme covers the technical, managerial and entrepreneurial topics relating to complex construction projects. You’ll develop your research skills by completing a dissertation on a construction topic you want to explore further, supported by our academic staff. Designed and delivered by a multi-disciplinary team of leading academics, the course is supported by input from real-world industrial practitioners. We have many years’ experience in environmental and civil engineering postgraduate education.When you graduate, you will be highly skilled in efficient project management techniques covering all aspects of onsite construction and be able to overcome the challenges that construction management entails.The programme can be studied full-time for one year or part-time over two years.
This module examines BIM principles investigating the: 1) discipline-specific BIM perspectives and 2) digital tools for central, efficient, and secure sharing of data/information on physical and functional characteristics of a structure, forming a reliable basis for decisions from earliest conception to demolition.
Provides students with a series of practical management tools with which environmental issues can be managed, within both the public and private sector. Students are enabled to examine the policy, legal and ethical framework in which projects operate and to develop the necessary skills to manage diverse teams in a sustainable manner.
This project module focuses on the theory and practice of identifying and implementing innovation of products and systems in organisations. It provides an opportunity for students to critically reflect on analytical, design, planning and evaluation tools that have been included in the programme and to apply these to the design and construction processes of a project that requires innovation and mimics the real-world feasibility design stage of a Civil and Environmental Engineering project.
The different approaches to management of organisational resources in different international settings and of the practical challenges of cross-cultural management. Module content: Introduction: The theoretical background; International business strategies; International and cross-cultural management; Managing in international context - culture and communications; Contemporary issues in managing international business.
Individual in-depth investigation of a particular aspect of your own specialism.
The complexity of project management and the tools and techniques to support successful management. Carry out an investigation into a project failure and recommend alternative actions which could have been taken. Module content: Project analysis and planning; Managing projects; Project management methodologies.
This module is designed to introduce postgraduate students to research methods and statistical analysis. Theoretical, historical, and statistical concepts are taught in lectures with hands-on practical lab sessions using both quantitative and qualitative techniques that allow students to put theory into practice.
