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Enrolment pattern

Master of Building Performance and Sustainable Design

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With a focus on sustainable design and building performance for a low-carbon built environment, this course will see you develop advanced technical, collaborative and cultural competencies to drive world-leading environmental outcomes in interdisciplinary teams and projects.

Planning your degree

The program has been designed so that some core units should be taken in a certain order and the remaining core and elective units fitted with them. A recommended enrolment pattern for the core units of the degree follows.

Unit of studyCredit points

Year 1

Semester 1
BPSD5000Sustainable Design: Principles & Frameworks6
BPSD5010Designing with Culture6
BPSD5020Sustainable Building Technology Fundamentals
6
 Elective6
Semester 2
BPSD5030Indoor Environments6
BPSD5040Building Performance6
BPSD5050Data Science for the Built Environment
6
 Elective6

Year 2

Semester 1
BPSD6010Social Sustainability and Co-design6
BPSD6020Building Lifecycles6
 Elective6
 Elective6
Semester 2
BPSD6030Building Systems6
 Elective6
BPSD6100Integrated Design Capstone12
BPSD6200Research Dissertation12

*Research Dissertation can be taken instead of Integrated Design Capstone for students wishing to pursue a research pathway