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.
| 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 | 6 |
| 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