Short Courses & Professional Development

Architecture, Construction and Surveying - Short Courses

Our short courses will equip you with the skills to successfully understand and solve key challenges that are faced within this industry.

We are passionate about equipping people with not only expert knowledge but also the skills to apply it appropriately and creatively. These industry-driven courses will give you the opportunity to learn in a practical environment, ensuring you are capable of taking these skills into the workplace.

Building Information Modelling: Application

Short Course - 15 Credits at SCQF level 11 | ECTS points 7.5

Consider BIM and its applications for the built environment. Explore BIM at the conceptual design stage; cross discipline design; shared BIM models; BIM during the construction stages; CDE, technical issues; virtual prototyping; BIM protocol; interoperability; building data storage and accessibility; smart data workflow: digital construction and transformation.

Construction Project Management

Short Course - 15 credits at SCQF level 11 | ECTS points 7.5

This master level short course provides a critical evaluation of the inputs and outputs of every stage of the project lifecycle. It identifies the duties and the role the PM plays in each phase. The module emphasises the importance of the project early phases and the consideration of alternatives and value for money to produce a functional project that meets the requirements of the sponsor.

Design Management

Short Course - 15 credits at SCQF level 11 | ECTS points 7.5

Design management involves organising innovative activity and constructing frameworks within which design takes place. In that context, this course introduces to you design management as a process that encompasses creativity and innovation. With project management tools to equip professionals with the right range of skills to tackle design management projects.

Project Information, Organisation and Behaviour

Short Course - 15 credits at SCQF level 11 | ECTS points 7.5

This master level short course explores complex interaction between the information any project needs, in addition to the value and type of communication required around that information. The course further studies the extent of useful work by the project manager in terms of supporting both human and non-human behaviours.

Project Planning & Control 15 Credits at SCQF level 11

Project Planning and Control

Short Course - 15 Credits at SCQF level 11 | ECTS points 7.5

This master level short course allows you to critically assess, within a problem-solving environment, the processes and strategies undertaken by project managers to define, plan control, and deliver functional projects

Risk and Safety Management

Short Course - 15 credits at SCQF level 11 | ECTS points 7.5

Within Project Management risk identification, analyses, evaluation and management is all about recognising risk as far as possible and then determining both how this risk may affect the project, the project team, the environment and communities.

Sustainable Development

Short Course - 15 Credits at SCQF level 11 | ECTS points 7.5

Your studies will include an introduction to sustainable development within the construction industry, in addition to a critical analysis of the challenges involved in developing and enhancing the built environment with responsibility to the local and global environment, society and communities.