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Our staff are nationally and internationally recognised academics and practitioners, active in their own areas of research, scholarship, and professional networks.
The UK has a legally binding target to reach net zero by 2050, requiring building professionals to be able to cost and dramatically reduce the carbon in our new and refurbished buildings. This masters provides the skills and knowledge to undertake this.
We offer a learning environment that better reflects the complexities and professional specialisms found in the building industry, including shared modules with students on the MA Architectural Design and MDes Master in Design Futures courses.
ADA7104E
Low Carbon Material Systems
This Module will provide students with technical knowledge and understanding of the emerging low carbon agenda including concepts such as embodied carbon, sustainable supply chains, and circular economies, and will support students’ learning across a range of design, architecture, and built environment subjects.
ADA7300
Research Project / Dissertation
This module supports students’ delivery of their final research project / dissertation through combinations of group and individual work. It includes broader disciplinary research skills, methods and ethical practices, as well as subject-specific supervisory arrangements for each students’ research interests. This can include practice-based, text-based or entrepreneurial research outputs.
MAAD7201
Design Project
This module allows students to develop actionable, impactful project propositions in the fields of architecture and built environment. By introducing a diversity of methodological strategies, the module will enable students to experiment with technologies on the prototyping, resolution and demonstration of a project ranging from building design, to advanced data-driven, place-based interventions.
MLCAE7101
Ultra Low Carbon/Natural Building Materials and Technologies
This module explores the state-of-the-art of natural building materials and technologies including fabrication and construction methods. It provides students with an awareness of developments in this area, and disruptive innovations. The module develops a practical understanding of peculiarities of the construction process of Ultra Low Carbon buildings and materials, and how this might differ from conventional operations.
MLCAE7201
The Monitoring and Performance of Buildings
This module introduces the connections between design and performance of buildings. It bridges the theoretical and practical understanding of how buildings behave allowing students to monitor and analyse their performance. The content covers building science, prediction, design of details, monitoring systems and tools, data presentation and analysis, and compare and contrast results from different sources.
2024-2025 | 2025-2026 | |
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Home | £9,500 | £9,700 |
International | £17,600 | £18,150 |
Part time (Home) | £530 | £540 |
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