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PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
The pgamme is ffeed ia full time
(ne yea), pat time (tw yeas) and
attendane fee distane leaning (tw
thee yeas). Pat time students attend
lasses n a day-elease basis. Many f u
pat time and distane leaning students
ae in exating emplyment psitins.
These students an pt t edue the
leel f study pe yea and inease the
study peid t a maximum f six yeas,
thus gaining a espeted pstgaduate
degee whilst ntibuting t the cPD
equiements f thei pfessinal bdies.
Full-time and pat-time students stat
in ealy Septembe, but thee ae tw
additinal stat dates in ealy januay
and May. Students typially mplete a
usewk assignment f eah usestudied; sit use examinatins at the
end
f eah semeste in De, Apil and August
f eah yea f study; and wk n thei
dissetatin aftewads. Aangements an
be made f distane leaning students
t sit exams at a numbe f entes
thughut the wld.
Distane leaning students eeie
mpehensie use study paks by
pst. A Pc with e-mail and Intenet aess
is neessay f thse students t gain
the fullest leaning expeiene fm the
pgamme.
Students undetake eight taught uses
plus the eseah dissetatin f the MS
pet ept f the Diplma. Students
an pt t mplete a ttal f fu uses
and gaduate with the Heit-Watt
Uniesity Pstgaduate cetiate.
Eah taught use equies 150 hus
and the dissetatin equies 600 hus.
The taught element f the pgamme
mpises e e uses and thee
eleties. The e uses ae:
Service Procurement and Provision
This use lks at the key seies that
make up a mden failities management
peatin. These seies ange fm
intei design, landsaping and utesy
seies t the me taditinal ppety
elated seies nened with the
upkeep f failities. The use pides a
theetial basis f seie puement;
the seletin f seie pides; and isk
management mdels. It nsides the
ganisatinal, human and ultual impat
f failities and ways in whih imped
seies an affet faility pefmane.
Within the use, n-ging pefmane
measuement systems ae als desibed
whih enable the effetie management
f seie ntats.
Space Planning and Management
This use pides a stategi eiew
f spae fm a business pespetie. It
identies the supply and demand pess
in elatin t ppety ptflis and
nsides tls and tehniques that enable
the effetie mdelling and use f spae.
It examines the nept f exibility
and euse in the ntext f a hanging
ganisatinal ntext.
Altenatie spae stategies ae examined
in the use in tandem with new ways
f wking. It als nsides hw spae
an be used t suppt wk-life balane
stategies in ganisatins.
Asset Maintenance Management
This use eamies the effetie
maagemet ad maiteae f
peatial ppety.
Key aspets ilude: maiteae pliy
ad stadads; plaed ad espsie
maiteae; asset appaisal ad
ealuati; ifmati maagemet;
maiteae; ppety ptflis;
aquisitins and dispsals.
Contracts & Procurement
This use nsides failities
management in the bade ntext f
the nstutin yle.
The adent f new puement methds
suh as the Piate Finane Initiatie (PFI)
hae ineitably dawn failities manages
int the lage issue f nstutin
pets and thei puement.
This use nsides puement
aangement ptins, piniples f
ntat law, puement thugh
Publi Piate Patneships, nstutin
ntats, negtiatin, as well as nits
and disputes. Failities manages hae an
ee ineasing ntibutin t make in
this pess in the apaity f infmed
lient.
Sustainable Practices in Facilities
Management
This use examines a numbe f key
issues in failities management whih
ae apidly gaining signiane within
the industy. The pupse f the use
is t familiaise the failities manage
with ntempay issues in FM and
the eleant guidelines, assessment
pedues, and standads f sustainableand stategi failities issues.
Key issues
eed inlude: sustainability, enegy
management, waste management, the
wking eninment, and mft and
pdutiity in the wkplae.
Additinally, students an hse thee
uses fm the fllwing list f eleties:
Peple and oganisatinal
Management in the Built Eninment
Business Management f Built
Eninment Pfessinals
Pet Management (They and
Patie)
value and risk Management
Pet Management Stategi Issues
real Estate Inestment Analysis
GRADUATE OPPORTUNITIESThe gwth f failities maagemet
ffes geat pptuities f FM
pfessials wh ae mpetet i
the e les equied f 21st etuy
failities maagemet.
PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITIONThe pgamme is fully aedited by the
ryal Istituti f chateed Sueys
(rIcS).
PROGRAMME BACKGROUNDFailities maagemet makes use f
umeus speialist skills withi the built
eimet t big abut a psitie
impat gaisatis: this iles
peple, plae, pess ad tehlgy.
The pfessi f failities maagemet
tiues t gw apidly
wldwide, meetig the hallegig
demads f mde gaisatis
thugh iati.
PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES
The MS/Diplma in Failities
Management deelps mpetenies
and skills t enable its gaduates t
manage failities effetiely f a
hanging business wld. Taught fm
the stategi pespetie, gaduates
fm the pgamme will gain the skills
neessay t fully ealise the ptential f
failities management. The pgamme
emphasises industial eleane, ensuing
that gaduates f the pgamme ae able
t suessfully integate peple, plae,
pess and tehnlgy.
Your Universitya eiew
www.sbe.hw.ac.uk
Heit-Watt Uniesity ffes a supeb eninment fpstgaduate study. We
ae ne f the UKs leading
uniesities, egnised intenatinally f exellent teahing
and eseah in u s peialist aeas f siene, engineeing,
business management, languages and textile design.
ou mmunity f pstgaduate students is made up f
bight, highly imaginatie and self-mtiated indiiduals,
wh wk lsely with u fwad-lking and enegeti
eseah-atie aademi staff. This llabatie
atmsphee is fundamental t Heit-Watts eniable
aademi and eseah eputatin.
Thse f yu wh hse t study with us will dise
high quality taught and eseah pgammes, exible
student-ented deliey, unialled failities and
pineeing eseah.
