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Introduction to Architecture & construction courses
Model and design, plan, build and influence residential, commercial and industrial physical environments for the 21st century.
Structure a sustainable, creative and inspiring future that influences and improves life, work and play.
Connect people to places through sympathetic environmental and human-centred design. Build transit orientated developments. Harmonise materials and methods.
Deconstruct legislation, scaffold heritage restoration or apply for a development permit—stake out your career in construction or draw on your designer skills.
Identify local and national architecture with heritage overlays or get a hand drawn perspective using rendering and digital collage.
Architecture & construction degrees
Undergraduate CUR-HCM-CTF
Undergraduate TUA-IDD-DIP
Postgraduate MAQ-PLN-MAS
Undergraduate CUR-HAR-CTF
Undergraduate LAT-URE-ADG
Undergraduate LAT-PLN-DEG
Undergraduate CUR-IND-DEG
Undergraduate LAT-URE-DIP
Architecture & construction subjects
Postgraduate CUR-URP540
Undergraduate USA-CIVE1007
Undergraduate CUR-CME403
Undergraduate CUR-CME101
Undergraduate CUR-CME402
Postgraduate CUR-URP510
Undergraduate CUR-CME106
How to become an architecture and construction professional
Map out the blueprint for your career.
Design, structure and cement a sustainable future in architecture, planning and construction.
Get hands on as a building technician, surveyor, civil engineer or construction manager. Plan regional communities or draft interior architecture, try modelling and practice.
Build a secure career with a foundation across multiple industries with skills in demand.
Accreditation
Improve your career prospects when you study through OUA and get accreditation from some of Australia’s peak, reputable organisations.
Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (AIQS)
Through industry research, educational support and its code of ethics, the AIQS backs quantity surveyors on the worksite and represents them in government, industry and public forums.
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
RICS is a leading international body backing the highest standards in surveyor practice. With 125,000 qualified and trainee members, RICS works across multiple sectors and countries.
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