Your construction management career

A career in construction management is diverse. Step up to the challenge of managing stakeholders, contractors, budgets and timelines to build commercial and residential developments.

What you will learn in this degree

Develop the knowledge and technical skills to deliver construction projects safely, and build confidence in managing the process from start to finish.

Construction management is not just about building sites: it’s about the bigger picture. Develop the skills to manage people and resources to ensure the safe delivery of buildings.

In this degree, you’ll gain extensive knowledge of developments in urban cities, the increasing need for residential and commercial properties, and the renovation of elements of the built environment.

Developed in response to industry demand, the subjects in this degree will take you through the skills you need in planning, coordination and control of a project, from inception through to completion.

Career

Work as a construction manager on new commercial and residential developments.

With the increasing need for new residential and commercial developments, and construction jobs on the rise, construction managers are highly in demand.

You will organise and manage a vast number of people in the building procurement process, and you’ll require good people management skills and an ability to work in teams.

A construction management degree qualifies you to work as a:

site manager, responsible for managing the construction site

construction manager, responsible for site management or running entire construction projects, ranging from housing through to multi storey buildings

quantity surveyor, assisting with cost planning, analysis, management and control of construction projects

projects manager, moving beyond the construction aspects of a project and managing the entire process from various stages of design through to completion and handover.

Your skills will also equip you to work in industries beyond construction, including engineering, architecture, economics and law.