Bachelor of Construction Management (Honours)

2014 Deakin University Handbook

Course sub-headings

• Course overview
• Professional recognition
• Course rules
• Course structure

Course overview

Deakin’s Bachelor of Construction Management (Honours) is offered to students wishing to gain employment in management positions in construction and allied industries in Australia and overseas. The course consists of four years of academic study. You will be provided with an excellent mix of hands-on practice and theory and integrated studies in technology and building management, including building economics and law, project management, building technology, measurement and estimation, quantity surveying, building surveying and building practice. The course develops progressively from the elementary concepts underlying planning and management of building production and technical studies through to the complexities and interrelationships of modern construction practices.

Units in the course may include assessment hurdle requirements.

Professional recognition

This course is professionally accredited by industry.  As a graduate of this course you will have completed the academic requirements for membership of the Australian Institute of Building (AIB), the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (AIQS), the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). It is recognised for practice in more than 50 countries, providing a global passport for work in this field in Australia and overseas.

Course rules

The course comprises a total of 32 credit points, which must include the following:

• 28 core units
• Completion of SRA010 Safety Induction Program (0-credit-point compulsory unit)
• Level 3 units – at least 6 credit points
• Level 1 units – no more than 10 credit points

The Bachelor of Construction Management (Honours) may be completed in less than four years by taking selected units in trimester 3. This also provides for greater flexibility in your studies.

Course structure

Year 3

Trimester 1

plus one elective unit

Course structure

Year 1

Trimester 1

*SRA010 - 0 cp safety unit

Course structure

Trimester 2

Course structure

Year 2

Trimester 1

Course structure

Trimester 2

Course structure

Trimester 2

plus one elective unit

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Year 4

Trimester 1

plus one elective unit

Course structure

Trimester 2

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Trimester 2

* 2 credit points

Course structure

Bachelor of Construction Management (Honours): (accelerated program)

The Bachelor of Construction Management (Honours) may be taken as an accelerated program. By taking selected units in Trimester 3 the course can be completed in three years instead of four.

Course structure

Year 1

Trimester 1

*SRA010 - 0 cp safety unit

Course structure

Trimester 3

plus three elective units

Year 2

Trimester 1

Trimester 2

Trimester 3

Year 3

Trimester 1

Trimester 2

* 2 credit points