MSc in Building Surveying

This programmes includes the following modules:

• Building Information Modelling (BIM): Provide the participant with the training, skills & practical experience to plan and deliver projects.
• Work Placement: provides an opportunity to gain structured and professional work experience, in a work based environment.
• Sustainable Construction Technology: provides knowledge of passive and active low energy design strategies applicable to new &retrofit build.
• Building Appraisal Maintenance and Renewal: consider different approaches to building re-use & renewal & to carbon reduction technologies.
• Law and Practice for the Built Environment: develop a critical knowledge of the statutes and regulatory frameworks, apply to Irish property industry.
• Specification, Design and Analysis: practical implications on buildability of specifying materials and will also cover CDM and statutory application.
• Research/Dissertation -individual research project on topic relating to Building Surveying

This MSc addresses the qualification requirement set down by the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (the Association of Building Engineers and the Chartered Institute of Building & RICS) in respect to conversion courses, which will qualify participants (subject to validation) to take the Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) and become chartered.

Please note that students who successfully complete the Postgraduate Diploma may progress to the MSc in Building Surveying.

Successful completion of the MSc programme can lead to further progression within industry, or to further level 10 / PhD pathways.

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Eligibility for Funding:

• To check whether you are eligible for HCI Pillar 1 funding, please visit springboardcourses.ie

Academic Entry Requirements:

• Applicants for this MSc programme will require a level 8 degree in a Cognitive Degree (minimum 2:2). Suitable candidates who do not meet this criteria may be considered for the programme based on other qualifications and/or work experience.
• In such cases, the DkIT Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) policy process will be applied. DkIT recognizes that knowledge, skills and competencies can be acquired from a range of learning experiences, including formal and informal. Through its RPL policy, the Institute commits to giving appropriate recognition to all relevant learning, irrespective of mode or place of learning.The focus of the RPL process is on the outcomes rather than the process of learning. RPL candidates will need to demonstrate the appropriate academic level of their learning and, where relevant, produce evidence of practical skills.

Work Placement takes place in semester 3 (full time delivery) consisting of 12 weeks in a Building Surveying or Similar disciplinant practice

• Construction Graduates wishing to train as 'assigned certifiers' having a Level 8, Honours 2.2 Cognitive Degree.
• Returners to Workforce
• Graduates in Employment wishing to upskill
• Previous self employed