Built Environment: Environmental Design and Engineering MSc

UCL (University College London)

To combat climate change and achieve net-zero carbon targets there is an urgent need for a sustainable, efficient, and healthier built environment. UCL's Environmental Design and Engineering MSc equips you for a successful career in sustainable building design and operation. It teaches you to use innovative approaches and tools to design and engineer buildings that are both sustainable and efficient that can be used in jobs in sustainable architecture, engineering and other built environment professions. In the face of environmental crises, adapting the built environment to create healthier, more sustainable buildings, towns, and cities is more crucial than ever. UCL's Environmental Design and Engineering MSc equips you with the skills to address these critical issues, teaching you to apply innovative and sustainable approaches for efficient building design and operation through integrated design and engineering. The course leverages the expertise of specialists from leading companies to ensure the content remains industrially relevant. Upon graduation, you will join our extensive network of alumni who have been driving change in building design and construction for the past 45 years. During your degree you will: Explore the fundamentals of energy demand and the consequences on the design, engineering and regulatory processes taking place in the built environment. Examine how buildings and the built environment impact people’s health and wellbeing by learning about Indoor Environmental Quality and applying knowledge to existing buildings to assess the effects of indoor air quality, and thermal, acoustic, and visual comfort. Learn how to design for the climate emergency gaining key skills in using passive design, natural and mechanical ventilation systems, solar heating and cooling and addressing embodied carbon. Gain expertise in building performance simulation and modelling tools to inform the design of sustainable buildings. Learn about net zero carbon design and engineering, evaluating the whole life carbon emissions of building services systems to the whole life carbon emissions of buildings. Gain hands on experience applying laboratory and field experiment techniques using state-of-the-art facilities to explore the energy and environmental performance of real buildings. Explore your own specialist interests by choosing optional modules spanning advanced building simulation, retrofit, indoor air quality, acoustics, systems thinking, energy systems modelling and more. This MSc is ideal for recent graduates and early to mid-career building professionals seeking to enhance or pivot their careers towards sustainable and environmental design and engineering. It is particularly suited for recent graduates with backgrounds in architecture, engineering, physics, or other building industries or environment-related fields. For early and mid-career professionals, this degree offers the opportunity to deepen your expertise in sustainability, environmental impact, energy efficiency, and health issues related to buildings.

Built Environment