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Introduction
This programme has been designed to provide a rich educational experience with particular emphasis on preparing you for a professional career in architectural technology, in both public and private sectors. It also helps to create a pathway for your career progression, through a range of accreditation routes, and a firm foundation for postgraduate studies, offering you choices for the future.
The programme aims, by intellectual stimulation, practical application and development of suitable skills, to make sure you become an informed and competent graduate who is well prepared for your future chosen role within the field of the built environment.
Consultation with industrial liaison groups has helped develop a programme that is as closely aligned as possible to the construction industry demands, in collaboration with professional bodies and industry institutions.
This Architectural Technology degree will equip you with the skills to deal with these challenges in areas such as legal, technical, managerial, economic, social and sustainable aspects of construction projects. Core modules allow students to learn through creative problem-solving and collaborative working. Students will develop expertise in design, construction technology, Building Information Modelling, computer-aided design, surveying practices and data manipulation.
PATHWAY OPTIONS
Architectural Technology (BSc)
UCAS Code: 38VW
Architectural Technology (HND)
UCAS Code: 3L1V
Architectural Technology (HNC)
UCAS Code: ATG9
Why choose this course?
1. We have a unique progression from pre-degree, BSc to MSc and research degrees which engages directly with employability and solutions for industrial issues.
2. The School is embedded in Wales’s construction industry with close links to industrial organisations, e.g. RIBA, CIOB, RICS, CABE, CITB, and currently investigating accreditation from CIAT.
3. Centre of excellence and innovation for Wales and the South West (CWIC).
4. Direct links and projects with TRADA.
5. Live sustainable construction projects with Down to Earth.
6. Practitioners from industry teaching as Lecturers with a high level of experience.
7. High rates of employability rates amongst our students after their studies.
8. Cross-disciplinary teaching and research for the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015.
9. MSc programmes in Property and Facilities Management, Sustainable Construction and Environmental Conservation and Management.
Overview
These programmes in Architectural Technology are concerned with buildings and their performance.
The discipline centres on building design and specification; it also embraces project management, legal, cultural, historic and economic factors as well as environmental issues.
The aims of the awards are to:
• enable you to assess accurately a range of technological problems whilst delivering appropriate pragmatic solutions
• provide an in-depth understanding of the technical, economic, legal and organisational aspects embraced within the Architectural Technology profession
• equip you with a range of skills as required by technologists either whilst working in professional practice or within large organisations.
These programmes contain certain modules that are delivered in common with other related programmes within the School i.e. Architecture, Building Surveying, Quantity Surveying, Property Management, Project and Construction Management etc. but only where these provide the essential foundations or there is a need for an inter-disciplinary approach to be taken as is common within the built environment professional discipline areas.
Modules
Year One – Level 4 (HNC, HND & BSc)
• Architecture Studio 1A (Design Skills) (20 credits; compulsory)
• Architecture Studio 1B (Space and Form) (20 credits; compulsory)
• Fundamentals of Construction Technology (20 credits; compulsory)
• Introduction to Contract and Legal Responsibilities within the Built Environment (20 credits; compulsory)
• Material Science and Building Services (20 credits; compulsory)
• Working with Digital Technologies & BIM (20 credits; compulsory).
Year Two – Level 5 (HND & BSc)
• Architectural Studio 2A (20 credits; compulsory)
• Architecture Studio 2C (20 credits; compulsory)
• Modern and Traditional Construction: Managing the Design and construction process (20 credits; compulsory)
• Profession and Business 1 (20 credits; compulsory)
• Project Control & Contract Administration (20 credits; compulsory)
• The Management of Sustainable Construction (20 credits; compulsory).
Year Three – Level 6 (BSc)
• Advanced Building Services and Environmental Design (20 credits; compulsory)
• Advanced Construction & Civil Engineering Technology (20 credits; compulsory)
• Architecture Studio 3B (20 credits; compulsory)
• Independent Project (40 credits; compulsory; Graduate Attributes Framework module)
• Integrated Group Project (20 credits; compulsory).
Entry Criteria
Architectural Technology (BSc)
You will need 96 UCAS Tariff points from A levels or their equivalent (240 UCAS tariff points)
Architectural Technology (HND)
You will need 96 UCAS Tariff points from A-levels or their equivalent (240 UCAS tariff points)
An alternative to A levels
Successful completion of an appropriate Access Course
Or
Professional vocational experience
We particularly welcome mature students with relevant vocational or even voluntary experience in the environment sector. The requirements for entry will vary depending on your background. Sometimes we may ask you to take an Access course to prepare you for study, or we may accept you based on your experience alone.
If you have a passion for the environment but a non-standard educational background please do feel free to contact us to discuss your place.
ENTRY REQUIRED DOCUMENTS
Home Office Share Code
For EU students only.
IF no Qualification
Please provide CV with at least 2 years of work experience, and employee reference letter.
Assessment
ASSESSMENT METHODS
1. INTERNAL ENGLISH TEST if you don't have an English accredited certificate
2. Academic Interview
Assessment
Assessments used within these Programmes are normally formative or summative. In the former assessment is designed to ensure students become aware of their strengths and weaknesses.
Typically, such assessment will take the form of practical exercises where a more hands-on approach shows student’s ability on a range of activities.
Traditional formal time-constrained assessment is by means of tests and examinations, normally of two-hour duration. Examinations are a traditional method of verifying that the work produced is the students’ own work.
To help authenticate student coursework, some modules require that the student and lecturer negotiate the topic for assessment on an individual basis, allowing the lecturer to monitor progress. Some modules where the assessment is research-based require students to verbally/visually present the research results to the lecturer and peers, followed by a question and answer session.
Such assessment strategies are in accord with the learning and teaching strategies employed by the team, that is, where the aim is to generate work that is mainly student-driven, individual, reflective and where appropriate, vocationally-orientated. Feedback to students will occur early in the study period and continue over the whole study session thereby allowing for greater value added to the student’s learning.
Career Opportunities
These programmes combine academic study with the application of professional skills and competencies. It will expose you to the educational requirements necessary to embrace the very highest industry standards and entails developing your knowledge and skills of conservation and restoration technologies, as well as legal, and management areas relevant to all buildings.
It will prepare you for work as a building conservationist and apply for membership of leading built environment professional bodies including the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technology (CIAT), the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) and the Chartered Institute of Building. In addition to the professional and technical skills specific to building conservation; presentation, communication and team working skills so essential in everyday business, are covered.
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