Construction Site ManagementBainistíocht Láithreáin Tógála

Construction management is a specialised field that involves planning, coordinating, and overseeing construction projects from inception to completion. It combines various aspects of project management, engineering, and business to ensure that a project is completed on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.

Key components of construction management include:

• Project Planning: Developing a detailed plan that outlines the project's scope, schedule, and resources needed.
• Commercial Management: Preparing and managing the budget, including estimating costs, monitoring expenditures, and controlling spending.
• Time Management: Creating and managing project timelines, ensuring that tasks are completed in the correct sequence and on schedule.
• Quality Control: Maintaining quality standards throughout the construction process by implementing inspections, testing, and compliance procedures.
• Communication: Facilitating clear communication between stakeholders, including clients, architects, engineers, contractors, and suppliers, to ensure everyone is aligned on project goals.
• Contract Management: Overseeing contracts with vendors and subcontractors, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Safety Management: Ensuring that safety protocols are followed on the construction site to protect workers and comply with health and safety regulations.

The programme is a 3-year part-time programme with each year split into two semesters. The students will complete 60 ECTS per year. This is made up of 40 ECTS for the taught modules and 20 ECTS for Work Based Learning (WBL). 

Leaving Certificate Requirements

QQI/FET Requirements

Applicants in possession of a FETAC level 5 qualification in a related construction or engineering discipline.

Mature Applicants

A mature student who is 23 years of age or older on the 1st January in the calendar year of proposed entry to an undergraduate course.

Note: All applicants must be in appropriate full-time employment within a construction-related business.

Non-EU Applicants

Non EU applicants must have documentary proof of Irish residency or an Irish work permit to be eligible to apply for this course. Full-Time applicants are required to produce a valid student study visa and evidence of the minimum English proficiency requirement for overseas applicants, by meeting a minimum requirement of 6.5 in IELTS or equivalent.

Recognition of prior Learning 

Applications may be considered from candidates who do not have the minimum academic requirements set out above but who do have significant relevant industry experience. In this situation, candidates will be interviewed, and Recognition of Prior Learning will be applied.

Advanced applications to the latter years of the course will be considered for those applicants who already possess experience in the industry and/or possess a construction-related undergraduate qualification. 
Consideration for the particular year of entry will depend on the level of the course qualification attained by the applicant i.e. Higher Certificate, Ordinary Degree and Honours Degree etc.

Students who have a recognised apprenticeship in a construction-related discipline and have obtained a National Craft Certificate (in a construction-related discipline), or equivalent (see below) may be considered for advanced entry into year 2 
of the programme.

Equivalent examples:
(a) Department of Education Senior Trade Certificate in a construction related discipline.
and/or
(b) City and Guilds of London Institute “Advanced Craft Certificate” in a construction related discipline.

Students applying for advanced entry to the programme may be requested to attend for interview where deemed necessary.

Based on the outcome of the interview, applicants will be informed of their admission status:
Admitted: Candidates who meet the interview criteria will be officially offered a place in Year 2 of the programme.

Year 1

• Construction Technology 1 
• Quantitative Methods/Maths
• Quantities Surveying 1 
• Self Development and Learning Skills
• Building Materials 
• Construction Tech 2B Building Structures 1
• Management Principles and Site Organisation 
• Information Tech 1
• Work Based Learning

Year 2

• Surveying and Levelling 1 
• Estimating and Tendering
• Building Materials 
• Contract Organisation and Legislation 
• Construction Technology 2C
• Law and Safety Legislation
• Information Technology 2
• Work Based Learning

Year 3

• Construction Technology 3 -  Building Management 
• Quantity Surveying 2
• Construction Technology 3C Building Services
• Conservation and Maintenance Surveying and Levelling 2
• Communication and Workplace Stress
• Financial Management
• Work Based Learning 

Students will be expected to be on Campus one day per week from 9am to 6pm with additional asynchronous directed and self-directed learning outside of these times. The student will be employed in a construction management-related role for the other four days per week.

Applications for this course are now closed.

For further information on the application process, please visit How To Apply.