Join the Master of Construction (Building Technology) - the only postgraduate building technology qualification in New Zealand.
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Learn how to make more efficient energy use of facilities and how to create a healthy facility with the only building technology qualification in New Zealand.
During the Massey University’s Master of Construction (Building Technology) you will learn how to design and manage healthy and energy efficient homes and workplaces, from principles to applications.
The Master of Construction has a focus on energy management and healthy buildings and is the only university course that looks at indoor air quality, healthy building and energy issues.
You will learn from senior faculty members and industry experts. Our staff have extensive experience and are working at the global forefront of research into healthy buildings. It is an opportunity for you to learn the latest developments in this area and take this learning back into your organisation and career.
As well as specific learning around facilities management, you will gain skills in front-end general project management issues such as development, finance, planning and scheduling, contract and stakeholder management. This is supplemented by elective modules from other construction-related endorsements or schools according to your professional specialisation.
Our lecturers come from a range of relevant sectors such as architectural technology, environmental engineering, construction, engineering, and IT. International participants feature strongly on all intakes. This wide mix of expertise allows for you to have meaningful exchange and interaction at this postgraduate level. Staff are very active in research on healthy buildings allowing students to be at the cutting edge of this fast growing area.
The built environment affects, and is affected by many external influences. During this programme, you will gain a global perspective of the social, political and ethical influences on building and construction and learn how to overlay these in your decision-making process.
Your learning takes place in an environment of diversity, integrity and transparency. The environment replicates, and reflects the standards of the construction management profession itself.
Massey University’s programme is ranked in the top 200 university built environment programmes in the world by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) rankings.
This degree can be completed in only one year full time. You can enter this programme if you have an approved four-year degree, a three-year degree and a postgraduate diploma, or a three-year degree and two years relevant work experience.
Postgraduate study is hard work but hugely rewarding and empowering. The workload replicates the high-pressure environment of senior workplace roles.
Postgraduate study is not just ‘more of the same’ undergraduate study. Our experts are there to guide but if you have come from undergraduate study, you will find that postgraduate study demands more in-depth and independent study. It takes you to a new level in knowledge and expertise especially in planning and undertaking research.
Past and current students are working as facilities managers, managing sustainable retrofits of housing, researching healthy homes, and conducting indoor environmental investigations
There is a shortage of enough qualified graduates with skills in this area - there is over $100 billion construction work (covering both building and infrastructure work) to be done in New Zealand alone over the next 30 years. Demand in many countries beyond New Zealand is even bigger.
Careers you may progress to after completing this qualification include:
A 2017 Ministry of Education publication The post-study earnings and destinations of young domestic graduates, found that in New Zealand:
Massey’s construction staff are internationally-renowned for their research and teaching and learning methods. You will be working with internationally-recognised specialists, for example:
Dr Ruggiero (Rino) LovreglioDr Lovreglio research topics include: decision-making during emergencies; evacuation and pedestrian modelling; human behaviour in disasters (eg fires, bush fires, earthquakes); building information modelling; virtual reality and augmented reality.
He has been visiting researcher in many prestigious universities and institutions, such as Lund University (Sweden), Edinburgh Napier University (UK), MIT (USA) and NIST (USA). He is a reviewer for more than 20 international journals in different fields, such as fire, safety and simulation research, applied mathematics and transportation modelling. He is a member of the editorial board of Fire Technology journal (Springer Nature) and web editor for the International Association for Fire Safety Science.
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