Major areas of research in the Department include:
1. Project management
- Culture in organizations and projects
- Procurement systems and relationship management
- Innovation and value co-creation
- Construction occupational health and safety management
- Integrated project delivery systems
2. Institutional analysis
- Adequate housing and sustainability issues
- Planning and development policies
- Property rights
3. Real estate investment and finance
- Transaction cost economic analysis of real estate development
- Financing initiatives for major projects
- Financial markets and real estate
- Land administration and construction economics
4. Construction process and product performance assessment
- Information and knowledge management in construction
- Business process management in real estate and construction
- Sustainable development practice
- Health, safety and environmental assessment of buildings and urban areas
Urban renewal
Departmental Coursework Requirements:
Department of Real Estate & Construction
Requirement – 2 compulsory courses and 2 elective courses from the list below
(From September 2011 to August 2014: requirement – 1 compulsory course (RECO6022 Research Seminar II) and 2 elective courses from the list below)
(From September 2006 to August 2011 AND September 2014 to December 2015: requirement – 2 compulsory courses (RECO6022 Research Seminar II) and (RECO6045 Sustainable Developments and Property Rights) and 2 elective courses from the list below)
Course Code |
Course Title |
Compulsory (C) /
Elective (E) |
RECO6022 |
Research Seminar II |
C |
RECO6021 |
Research Seminar I |
E |
RECO6024 |
Research Seminar III |
E |
RECO6071 |
Sustainable Construction and Organizational Theory |
E |
|
One of the following course in Sustainable Development:
- RECO6045 Sustainable development and property rights; or
- Any postgraduate course in Sustainable Development endorsed by the DRPC
|
C
|
|
Any courses from the Taught Postgraduate Programmes (MSc/MUD/MArch/MLA) offered by the Faculty |
E |