Higher/Degree Apprenticeship Building Services Design Engineer
BEng(Hons) Building Services Engineering
BEng(Hons) Building Services Engineering
Page last updated 1 March 2024
Study our Building Services Design Engineer apprenticeship to gain a BEng(Hons) Building Services Engineering degree accredited by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE). You'll benefit from industry standard facilities, specialist software, hands-on lab activities.
Our Building Services Design Engineer apprenticeship (Level 6) offers you the chance to gain a university-level degree while you work in your current role. You'll develop the skills and knowledge you need to effectively manage projects that maintain and enhance the quality of the environment and community.
Working alongside other construction professionals, Building Services Design Engineers manage teams of engineers and technicians to design the services found in buildings and infrastructure projects - from heating and ventilation systems to communications and building transportation.
The Building Services Design Engineer apprenticeship not only meets all the core requirements of the accrediting body, but also delivers leading-edge teaching. This includes areas such as energy simulations, sustainability, performance analysis and assessment of the impact of user behaviour on system design.
You'll learn from industry-experienced tutors and practising professionals, who incorporate up-to-the-minute ideas from their own research projects into their tutorials. Later on in your apprenticeship, you'll be able to specialise in one specific aspect of the profession, allowing you to follow your professional interests.
You'll gain hands-on experience through lab activities and field trips, and benefit from a varied and multi-layered learning environment. You'll also have access to a range of design software and industry-standard facilities, such as our environmental physics lab, construction material lab and lighting lab.
This apprenticeship aims to produce competent leaders and critical thinkers who can be flexible, innovative and successful in the face of a changing industry. And because you'll continue to contribute to your company while you study, your workplace will immediately benefit from your enhanced learning and confidence.
Taught by experienced professionals, you'll develop fundamental skills applicable to your organisation, relevant to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC); electrical and public health services; and building physics. You'll learn to select appropriate services solutions, perform sizing calculations, evaluate performance and critically analyse a range of building engineering services.
You'll develop an advanced overview of the building development process, including its legal, economic and management aspects. You'll gain insight into the driving forces changing the industry such as Building Information Modelling (BIM), sustainability, performance evaluation and digital design.
This apprenticeship will support your development in the workplace and progress your journey to achieving chartered status. You'll also understand the career landscape in your sector and plan for your longer-term ambitions. Our award-winning Careers Service is on hand to give you independent advice and guidance at any point in your studies.
This apprenticeship is delivered by a day-release format, meaning you'll spend one day per week in class for 24 weeks per academic year.
Your content includes introductions to and advanced design strategies and calculations covering the breadth of services engineering. These include Mechanical, Electrical, Public Health, Acoustics, Power Distribution, Security, Fire, IT, Refrigeration, Lifts, BMS and Intelligent Buildings.
You'll also cover passive design techniques to assess whole-building sustainability and use dynamic thermal simulation computer software to assess performance. Construction law and procurement are also part of the course.
Scheduled assessments will take place over an additional six weeks. Most of the 16 modules will have written assessment, plus either an exam or a presentation. There'll be an individual research dissertation and final year design project.
Read more about the approved Building Services Design Engineer Standard on the GOV.UK website.
On successful completion of our Building Services Design Engineer apprenticeship, you'll graduate with a BEng(Hons) Building Services Engineering degree (Level 6).
This apprenticeship is accredited by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) as a qualifying first degree on the way to Chartered Engineer status.
You'll also have applied for registration with the Engineering Council as an Incorporated Engineer (IEng). This is a mandatory part of the End-Point Assessment.
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