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Master of Building Performance and Sustainable Design

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 planner for the core units of the degree follows.

Design Innovation Stream

Unit of study Credit points

Year 1

Semester 1
BPSD5000 Sustainable Design: Principles & Frameworks 6
BPSD5010 Designing with Culture 6
BPSD5020 Sustainable Building Technology Fundamentals
6
  Elective 6
Semester 2
BPSD5030 Indoor Environments 12
BPSD5040 Building Performance 6
BPSD5050 Data Science for the Built Environment
6
  Elective 6

Year 2

Semester 1
BPSD6010 Social Sustainability and Co-design 6
BPSD6020 Building Lifecycles 6
  Elective 6
  Elective 6
Semester 2
BPSD6030 Building Systems 6
  Elective 6
BPSD6100 Integrated Design Capstone 12
BPSD6200 Research Dissertation 12

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