BSc (Hons) Building Surveying
Manchester, United Kingdom
BSc
DURATION
4 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Building Surveyors look at building pathology, focusing on refurbishment, reuse, development, restoration, repair, and conservation. With our Building Surveying degree course, you can develop a knowledge base and skill set that can lead to exciting global opportunities across many industries in the built environment sector.
A gateway to professional status, our Building Surveying degree course is accredited by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE) and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB). Studying an accredited course ensures that the knowledge and skills you develop will meet the highest industry standards.
Covering a broad range of key industry areas, you will learn about the construction industry and its legal and regulatory framework, and explore the relationship between a building and its internal and external environments. You’ll recognise how to diagnose problems with existing buildings and be aware of conservation and regeneration.
You will:
- Build knowledge and skills to describe, explain, evaluate, and apply building construction techniques
- Learn to identify and use appropriate strategies and technologies applicable to building surveying practice
- Develop an understanding of the interactions between a building and its internal and external environments
- Gain the ability to identify symptoms and diagnose defects found in a diverse range of building types
- Understand urban regeneration so you can participate in future sustainable regeneration initiatives
This is for you if...
- You have a passion for developing, advancing and shaping the future of the built environment
- You're keen to develop technical and professional skills in a recognised role
- You're interested in urban regeneration and building development, repair and restoration
Delivered over three years full-time, our BSc Building Surveying course combines theoretical knowledge with the application of professional skills and competencies. You will learn through a blend of academic study and project work, mirroring the multidisciplinary, team-based approaches used by the construction industry.
In year one, you will build a strong foundation of knowledge, with essential modules covering regulation, economics, management, surveying and design, as you progress into year two, you’ll focus on specific topics and start your industry placement. By the final year, you’ll explore advanced modules and complete a research dissertation.
Learning Experience
Located at the heart of the largest property and construction market outside of London, Salford is a great choice for building surveying. Drawing on our strong links with the construction industry and professional bodies, you will experience site visits, guest speakers and placements. Working with ex-practitioner tutors, you will develop your surveying skills by working on live local projects with real clients and local surveying practices.
In year one, you will study the Building Surveying Practise 1 module so that you can solve discipline-related tasks as well as ethical codes of behaviour appropriate to built environment practice.
Along with our series of theoretical modules, you’ll learn from external guest lectures, collaborate with students from related courses and experience group projects that will build your confidence and desirable skills for real-world construction careers.
Industry Placement
On this course, you will have the option to take an industry placement year between years two and three. Although you will be responsible for securing your placement, our tutors will support you in finding a role, and monitor your progress throughout.
Industry placements are an excellent way to enhance your CV, gain hands-on work experience and build industry connections. We often find that placement students achieve higher final-year grades.
Year one
- Introduction to Law and Regulatory Frameworks
- Economics and Management
- Environmental Science and Services
- Surveying Practice
- Building Construction and Defects
- Introduction to Valuation
Year two
- Technology 2
- Building Design Studies
- Procurement and Administration
- Sustainable & Energy Efficient Buildings
- Development Appraisal and Viability
- Property Law
Year three
- Building Surveying Practice 2
- Discipline Research Project
- Building Surveying Project
- Building Maintenance and Retrofit
- Conservation of the Historic Environment
- Introduction to Urban Regeneration
We have designed the course to help you to develop a range of technical and professional skills which will make you highly employable. Along with gaining a solid understanding of the built environment, you will build communication and presentation skills, develop your collaborative techniques and acquire project management skills.
As a building surveying graduate, you will be well-equipped to pursue roles in a variety of areas including the design of new buildings, the specification and supervision of construction work, refurbishment alterations and extensions, acquisition and condition surveying and building defect diagnostics.
Our building surveying graduates have secured roles working with a number of regional and national organisations including B&Q, Darwen Borough Council, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, EG Group, JN Bentley Ltd, Manchester City Council, National Grid, Network Rail, Property Tectonics Ltd, and STMC Building Control Ltd.