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I am studying final-year civil engineering. I would like to do a postgraduate programme in building services engineering in U.K. What are the career prospects?
Building services engineering is an expanding specialisation in today’s construction industry that deals with important aspects such as sustainability, new technology, installation of specialist services and building design. The specific aim is to offer students a rigorous theoretical and practical training as a base for their professional development.
Modules included in the postgraduate programmes are Building Technology, Lighting Applications, Sustainable Technology, Personal Development, Piped Distribution, Individual Project, Health and Safety, Integrated Building Services Design, Air Conditioning, Mathematics for Engineers, Advanced Building Services and Technology, Design and Production Computer Analysis, Construction Law, Management Skills, and Economics and Finance.
A postgraduate programme is designed to respond to the worldwide demand for building services engineering managers who have a sound knowledge of engineering and management principles and the ability to apply this knowledge to the complex situations prevailing within the building services industry.
Please provide details about a postgraduate programme in sustainable waste management.
Waste management is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal of waste materials. The term usually relates to materials produced by human activity, and is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health, aesthetics or amenity.
Waste management is also carried out to reduce the materials’ effect on the environment and to recover resources from them. It can involve solid, liquid or gaseous substances, with different methods and fields of expertise for each.
Postgraduate courses in sustainable waste management have been developed in many universities in close consultation with professional bodies operating within the waste industry and environmental management and represent the current and future requirements of these organisations. The underlying ethos is that sustainable waste management requires scientific and managerial expertise as it changes focus from the safe, least cost disposal of unwanted materials to their best use as a resource, and their optimal management in the long term.
Waste management offers a variety of career opportunities, with a range of different employers such as: water companies, waste disposal organizations, environmental monitoring organizations, environment consultancies and organizations involved with identification and remediation of contaminated land.
JAYAPRAKASH GANDHI
Email: jpgandhi@gmail.com
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