Take a leading role in exciting, large-scale building construction with VU's Bachelor of Construction Management (Honours).

In our honours construction-management degree, you’ll learn all the skills needed to manage residential, commercial and industrial projects. You’ll gain valuable expertise in the various areas of large-scale building and civil-engineering projects.

Your expertise will let you undertake roles overseeing the building process, from design to development, construction and operation.

You’ll graduate with skills in:

• project planning
• cost and quality management
• construction techniques and materials
• building law
• building codes
• industrial relations
• personnel management.

Our industry contacts and our focus on real-world experience ensure you’re job-ready when you graduate.

Construction management is a growing profession, and your qualifications will be highly useful and in-demand. An honours degree helps you fulfill the requirements of the Australian Institute of Building (AIB)(external link), the targeted accreditation body for this course.

An honours degree is designed to put you in a position to apply for recognised accredition from the Australian Institute of Building (AIB).

On completing Bachelor of Construction Management (Honours), possible job opportunities include:

• construction manager
• project manager
• quantity surveyor 
• building technician
• building surveyor
• building contractor
• estimator
• contract administrator
• facilities manager
• property developer.

Graduates have a wide range of employment opportunities in the private and public sectors, working for:

• building proprietors
• contractors
• developers 
• government bodies
• consultancy practices
• self-employed entrepreneurs.

You’ll also have skills and knowledge that can be applied in other industries such as mining, petrochemicals and infrastructure development.

Salaries

According to Australian government site Job Outlook, the average salary for construction managers is A$93,400

Job openings for construction managers are expected to grow in the next few years