The faculty's inter-professional approach includes projects where you students work with students from other disciplines within the built environment; this encourages mutual respect and understanding of the professions which students are likely to be working with during their career, and helps them to develop and practise the skills of presentation; negotiation; communication; and delegation.Year 1: Design concepts and fundamental principles: design, through studio-based projects; design in context; construction technologies; law and construction contracts; environments and construction materials.Year 2: Design integration, practice and application: elemental and integrated design; building defects and property surveys; technology, design and environment; structural design technology; building services engineering; inter-professional project, with students from other professional courses.Year 3: Analysis, synthesis and scholarly judgement: integrated building design; project and contract management; professional practice; inter-professional project, with students from related disciplines; services and structures.