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MSc Built Environment: Environmental Design and Engineering

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    MSc 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time, 5 years flexible

Course Description

There is an urgent need for a more sustainable, efficient and healthier built environment to mitigate the impacts of climate change and contribute towards achieving net zero carbon targets. UCL’s Environmental Design and Engineering MSc teaches a new generation of experts to apply innovative and sustainable approaches for more efficient building design and operation through integrated design and engineering.

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

Entry Requirements

A second-class Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. architecture, engineering, physics and other relevant disciplines in built environment) from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard. If your first degree was not in a relevant discipline, please clearly state in your personal statement how your educational or employment background (including any internships or projects) relates to the programme and what you aim to achieve through your studies.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

UCL offers a range of financial awards aimed at assisting both prospective and current students with their studies.

Student Destinations

Through the programme, you will learn skills and knowledge that are sought after by the leading practices in the industry.

These include:

  • Dynamic thermal simulation modelling using IES VE (the most widely used software by the UK industry)
  • Multidisciplinary integrated design approach for net zero carbon design
  • Indoor environmental quality monitoring and analyses (e.g. using sensors for monitoring indoor temperature and relative humidity)
  • Quantitative research methods (e.g. statistical analyses)
  • Qualitative research methods (e.g. occupant survey, questionnaire design)
  • Multi-objective design optimisation using Grasshopper (depending on optional module choice)
  • EnergyPlus and Python coding (depending on optional module choice)

Module Details

Compulsory modules

  • The Built Environment: The Energy Context
  • Dissertation: Environmental Design and Engineering
  • Health, Comfort and Wellbeing in the Built Environment
  • Building Solar Design
  • Natural and Mechanical Ventilation in Buildings
  • Efficient Building Services Systems
  • Methods of Environmental Analysis

Optional modules

  • Light, Lighting and Wellbeing in Buildings
  • Building Acoustics
  • Advanced Building Simulation
  • Industrial Symbiosis
  • Energy Systems Modelling
  • Low Energy Housing Retrofit
  • Indoor Air Quality in Buildings
  • Post Occupancy Evaluation
  • Systems Thinking and System Dynamics

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