Programme

During the first year you will acquire advanced knowledge and skills in managing the entire life cycle of the built environment. 

First semester (MSc1)
MSc1 is oriented towards knowledge acquisition, drawing from both academic sources and illustrative case studies. Two courses offer an introduction to respectively Design and Construction Management and Real Estate Management. Both courses use real life cases. 
Design & Construction Management targets the development and management of design and construction at the scale of a building. Management issues regarding the design and the construction of a building are examined on the basis of a real life case.
Real Estate Management is concerned with the supply of and demand for building stock, for private firms as well as public institutions and housing.
The other two courses cover Research Methods (including Data Management and Data Ethics) and Building Economics (including Financial Feasibility of Real Estate Investments).

Second semester (MSc2)
Where the courses in the first semester focus on the scales of the individual building and portfolios, the third quarter focusses on the scale of the urban development project. This is achieved through the Urban Development Management course which looks at the processes involved with the development of larger urban projects. This course includes a game in which you apply the knowledge you gained from literature and cases. 
This is complemented with a course on Building Law (including Planning Law).

In the fourth quarter you join one of the (intra)disciplinary courses in which you are challenged to work together with students from other tracks within the Master Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences on overarching themes.

Check the Study Guide for a full overview of the (intra)disciplinary electives available to Management in the Built Environment track students (information available as from 1st of May).