Building, Planning, Real Estate and Urban Design

The Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Building Design is a leading body recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering.

The Centre aims to produce postgraduate students in architecture and engineering that can not only demonstrate knowledge and skills within their own discipline, but are also literate about sustainability challenges and the need to take a multidisciplinary approach to shape our cities and towns so they effectively contribute to a wealthier and fairer, healthier and safer, and ultimately sustainable society.

Our Real Estate, Housing and Social Policy courses benefit from the expertise of research-active and industry-minded staff. A number of honorary professors from industry also provide guest lectures and advise on student research projects.

Courses are delivered by The Urban Institute. The Institute's Graduate School connects students with staff, research associates and fellow students engaged in cutting-edge research in areas such as affordability, housing markets and private renting; commercial property markets; urban economics; diversity and minority ethnic communities; homelessness and social exclusion and housing policy.