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UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering is on a mission to make our buildings, towns and cities, healthier, more sustainable places to live. Take the lead in reshaping the built environment, tackling the climate crisis head-on whilst shaping spaces where people and the planet can thrive. Gain essential skills to advance sustainable building design and operation.

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Smart Buildings and Digital Engineering MSc

Innovative opportunities in the design and engineering of buildings with more efficient integrated services are being unlocked by advances in technology and artificial intelligence, combined with unprecedented access to building operation data. This accredited Building Services Engineering MSc will teach you to utilise advanced modelling tools, data analysis, and machine learning to engineer smarter, more sustainable buildings that create healthier environments for occupants. These skills will prepare you for a career in innovating the engineering, design, and operation of integrated building systems.

Health, Wellbeing and Sustainable Buildings MSc

UCL's Health, Wellbeing and Sustainable Buildings MSc is designed to meet the growing demand for specialists to drive the health and wellbeing agenda in the design, assessment, retrofit and operation of sustainable buildings. This master's offers more than just knowledge; it equips you with the skills, tools and networks needed to advance your career across a variety of professions, in enhancing sustainability, health, and wellbeing within the built environment.

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Light and Lighting MSc

UCL offers one of the world's most comprehensive master’s degrees in Light and Lighting. We bring together the technical and creative sides of lighting design, to offer an extensive package of knowledge and skills for your career as a lighting professional working in the built environment. You will learn to design lighting as an integrated component of architecture, utilising exciting advances in science and technology whilst taking into consideration human responses to the lit environment.

Environmental Design and Engineering MSc

To combat climate change and achieve net-zero carbon targets there is an urgent need for a sustainable, efficient, and healthier built environment. UCL's Environmental Design and Engineering MSc equips you for a successful career in sustainable building design and operation. It teaches you to use innovative approaches and tools to design and engineer buildings that are both sustainable and efficient that can be used in jobs in sustainable architecture, engineering and other built environment professions.