Are you interested in making buildings, towns and cities better places to live? Do you want to help make them more sustainable, healthier, more efficient and more productive? At the UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, our specialist environmental design and engineering master’s degrees explore sustainable building design, building performance, lighting and digital engineering — and how the built environment affects health, wellbeing, productivity, energy use and climate change.

You gain the skills needed for a wide range of roles in sustainable building design, lighting, indoor environmental quality, wellbeing and smart building innovation. You learn how to assess performance, understand indoor conditions and apply approaches that improve comfort, efficiency and sustainability.

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Built Environment: Environmental Design and Engineering MSc - Learn to design and engineer buildings for sustainability, efficiency and health in response to climate challenges.

Health, Wellbeing and Sustainable Buildings MSc – Develop skills to assess and improve how buildings affect health, wellbeing and productivity.

Smart Buildings and Digital Engineering MSc– Learn to use modelling, data analysis and machine learning to design smarter, more sustainable buildings.

Light and Lighting MSc – Build technical and creative expertise in lighting and daylighting.

Why study at the Bartlett?

  • Learn from specialists in environmental design and engineering – with expertise spanning energy, indoor environmental quality, lighting, digital engineering, acoustics and building performance.
  • Access to specialist facilities – including environmental monitoring tools, lighting laboratories, simulation platforms and digital engineering software through relevant courses
  • Strong industry relationships – opportunities to connect with engineers, designers, lighting specialists and sustainability professionals are embedded in our degrees
  • Study in London – a global centre for sustainable design, engineering and innovation, and the best student city in the UK and Europe (QS Best Cities 2026)

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