Construction & Project Management

Program Information

This programme focuses on strategic project management and upper management skills to produce professional project managers. The modules include risk, procurement, communication and cost management, as well as project leadership. The Graduate Diploma in Construction Project Management is a great stepping stone if you want to move into management positions in the construction sector. Learn to apply project management knowledge to the construction industry to ensure contracts are completed on time and on budget. You'll be able to solve complex industry-related problems, in teams and alone, and provide leadership in a team environment.

Enhance Your Career

The Postgraduate Diploma in Construction (Construction Project Management) is the stepping stone to a research-based degree such as a masters.

What Is It Like?

VIAST Postgraduate Diploma in Construction gives you the opportunity to join the pathway to in-depth research at a master's level.

The programme gives you the opportunity to show your analytical thinking and high-level research capability. If you complete the programme at a satisfactory level you may be able to proceed to the Master of Construction. If so, credits you have gained through this qualification may be credited to the master's programme.

Key Project Management Skills

Your learning focuses on front-end general project management issues such as development, finance, planning and scheduling, contract and stakeholder's management. This is supplemented by elective modules from other construction-related endorsements or schools according to your professional specializations'. The program provides both disciplinary and integrative education in the areas of constructability, costs, scheduling and ethics.

Research-led Learning From Industry Experts

You will learn from senior faculty members and industry experts. Our lecturers and supervisors come from a range of relevant sectors such as construction, engineering, petroleum and IT. International participants feature strongly on all intakes, and the wide mix of expertise allows for you to have meaningful exchange and interaction at the postgraduate level.

Why Postgraduate Study?

Postgraduate study is hard work but hugely rewarding and empowering. The workload replicates the high-pressure environment of senior workplace roles.

Careers

There is great demand – over $100 billion construction work (covering both building and infrastructure work) to be done in EUROPE alone over the next 30 years. Demand in many countries beyond New Zealand is even bigger.

There are multiple career opportunities for construction project management graduates in organizations such as consulting and specialist subcontracting organizations, Multinational construction corporations, government, and academia – within Europe and abroad.

Entry Criteria

Admission to the Postgraduate Diploma in Construction (Construction Project Management) requires you to have a three-year Bachelor of Construction degree, Graduate Diploma in Technology with an endorsement in Construction Management or Quantity Surveying, or an equivalent qualification.

Students from a country where English is not the first language, must obtain a minimum English Language competency level.