MSc Planning Buildings for Health

MARU offers a RICS accredited masters programme for health, design and construction professionals.

Our UK and EU post-graduate masters programme is open access - student applications are assessed on relevant experience as well as professional qualification. The course is aimed at both individual students and trusts or companies who are involved in, or wish to be involved in, the planning and construction or development of buildings for health care delivery.

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MSc Planning Buildings for Health

RICS accreditation

Course Director: Liz Whelan
Telephone: +44 (0)207 815 8395
Email: whelane2@lsbu.ac.uk

London South Bank University application form (PDF Opens in a new window)

Modules/Units

The course is delivered in six 5-day modules which together with the dissertation build up to the Masters Degree. All units are accredited by Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors for Project Directors, Project Managers, Engineering, Design and Planning Leaders.

• YEAR ONE (part-time)
• Module 1 : Planning process for health care business
• Module 2 : Strategic planning of healthcare estate
• Module 3 : Procurement & management of construction

• YEAR TWO (part-time)
• Module 4 : Project briefing and evaluation
• Module 5 : Project leadership
• Module 6 : Comparative health estates studies (field trip)

Dates

• YEAR ONE
• Module 1 : week commencing 08 October 2012
• Module 2 : week commencing 26 November 2012
• Module 3 : week commencing 25 February 2013

• YEAR TWO
• Module 4 : week commencing 05 November 2012
• Module 5 : week commencing 14 January 2013
• Module 6 : week commencing 15 April 2013

Credit accumulation

• 3 modules : PG Certificate
• 6 modules : PG Diploma
• Dissertation : MSc - RICS accreditation: professional log book and interview

Study modes

Part-time

Three 5-day sessions during autumn and spring terms over two years. Dissertation study 1 further year.

Full-time

Attendance over 1 academic year (13 months) with 6 taught units and an individual dissertation study.

All course fees must be confirmed with the Fees Office.

The MARU professional edge

MARU is an educational and research centre of excellence for validated, inter-professional training focused on healthcare provision from hospital to home. The aim is to provide the relevant skills to develop a high quality estate including:

• business planning, whole life costs and procurement delivery
• sustainable development and low carbon performance specification
• strategic estate master planning and service activity
• project briefing tools and delivering a customer focus
• project leadership, lean thinking and change management
• buildings-in-use evaluation and research methods
• evidence based inclusive design and the therapeutic environment

Students benefit from being part of an extensive UK and international alumni learning professional support network and the use of a unique health buildings resource library and reading room containing 50 years of health care planning publications.