Built Environment: Environmental Design and Engineering MSc

In the face of climate and biodiversity crises, it has never been more important to adapt the built environment and make our buildings, towns and cities healthier, more sustainable places to live. Environmental Design and Engineering MSc is designed give you the skills to tackle these increasingly critical issues by advancing your knowledge and expertise in the design of more efficient, sustainable buildings.

You will develop the skills needed to think innovatively about the design and operation of buildings in the context of local, national and global environmental issues.

Key areas you will study include:

• Passive design
• Efficient building services systems design
• Advanced building simulation techniques
• Occupant health, comfort and wellbeing in buildings
• Natural and mechanical ventilation in buildings
• Net zero carbon design
• Embodied energy/carbon

You will also get the opportunity to build your knowledge in specialist topics such as:

• Retrofit
• Indoor air quality
• Building acoustics
• Light, lighting and wellbeing in buildings

The MSc will develop your problem solving and critical thinking, providing you with a rigorous framework for the design and operation of buildings that keeps environmental concerns and the needs of occupants at the heart of design.