Built environment refers to the manmade surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, from the largest-scale civic surroundings to the smallest personal place. In architecture and environmental psychology, the phrase is a useful acknowledgement that a small fraction of buildings constructed annually, even in the industrialized world, are designed by architects, and that users of the built environment encounter issues that across the traditional professional boundaries between urban planners, traffic engineering (transportation) traffic engineers, zoning authorities, architects, interior designers, industrial designers, etc.
The common factor for all roles in the built environment includes an ability to provide creative solutions to challenging design and construction problems, and to communicate effectively with clients and colleagues alike. The programmes of study offered by the Department have been designed to keep pace with a changing and evolving construction industry and to meet the demands placed upon today’s building professional. |
