BCA launches sustainable building design course

Today Online 27 Mar 09;

TO BUILD up Singapore’s expertise in designing sustainable buildings, a new course has been rolled out by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) and the University of Nottingham.

Called the Master of Science in Sustainable Building Design, it is a first-of-its-kind postgraduate course, and comes under the Singapore Workforce Development Agency’s (WDA) Professional Conversion Programme.

There will be 60 students and they will receive up to 90 per cent of Government funding for their course fees.

The 2-year part time course will be based on an inter-disciplinary approach to sustainable design and comprises six compulsory modules and one dissertation.

The new course would be good news to 100 green building practitioners and graduating students surveyed by BCA Academy. More than 90 per cent of them felt the need for such training opportunities, while most believed that there will be high demand for such courses.

The course will be conducted at BCA Academy’s Braddell Road campus, and classes will be delivered by academic staff from the University of Nottingham and University of Nottingham Ningbo, China. The first intake will start in September. 938LIVE