Master of Building Performance and Sustainable Design
Enrolment planner
| This page was first published on 13 November 2025 and was last amended on 27 November 2025. View details of the changes below. |
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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 planner for the core units of the degree follows.
| Unit of study | Credit points | |
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Year 1 |
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Semester 1 |
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| BPSD5000 | Sustainable Design: Principles & Frameworks | 6 |
| BPSD5010 | Designing with Culture | 6 |
| BPSD5020 | Sustainable Building Technology Fundamentals |
6 |
| Elective | 6 | |
Semester 2 |
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| BPSD5030 | Indoor Environments | 6 |
| BPSD5040 | Building Performance | 6 |
| BPSD5050 | Data Science for the Built Environment |
6 |
| Elective | 6 | |
Year 2 |
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Semester 1 |
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| BPSD6010 | Social Sustainability and Co-design | 6 |
| BPSD6020 | Building Lifecycles | 6 |
| Elective | 6 | |
| Elective | 6 | |
Semester 2 |
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| 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
