By Professor Monty Sutrisna, Head of School, School of Built Environment, Massey University

Make your mark on THIS growing industry with qualifications from Massey univeristy’s construction experts, who will help you from design to project completion.

Massey University’s School of Built Environment (SBE) is a global leader in teaching and research for quantity surveying, construction, facilities management, lighting, digital and sustainable built environments.

At Massey University’s Auckland campus, the expertise of staff, combined with local, national and international partnerships, ensures that the needs of the community, industry and government are serviced to improve the built environment. This, along with advancements in research, allows Massey University’s students to graduate career-ready, with high-level skills and knowledge.

The $120-million investment to build a new Innovation Complex at the Auckland campus (opening for the new academic year in 2023) creates new areas for students to learn, innovate and get hands-on experience to graduate work ready. The 9800-square-metre building includes research labs, clinics, teaching spaces, and staff and student workspaces.

The university champions learning through research and inquiry so that its teaching is underpinned by up-to-date, evidence-based research. Massey University’s expertise covers several areas and draws from its research strengths.

• Lighting: With its flagship lighting lab, the university has built a reputation as the main provider of education in this niche area within the built environment.
• Quantity surveying: This is constantly in high demand in the construction industry, and Massey University has an excellent reputation as the main provider in New Zealand.
• Construction management and project management: Massey University has a good reputation in educating future construction and project managers.
• Construction technology: With its construction materials lab, indoor air quality lab and sound lab, Massey University provides key skill learning for students.
• Construction law, contract and procurement: This is a true niche area within built environment that Massey University’s SBE has been developing in the past few years.
• Digital built environment: The university has a brand new virtual reality, augmented reality and building information modelling lab. The university is also in the process of adding more capabilities to form an integrated digital built environment lab, supporting its vision to become the leader within the digital built environment – in New Zealand and beyond.
• Facilities management: In 2021, Massey University introduced the new diploma and postgraduate diploma in facilities management to serve industry needs in this area.

The University’s ratings

Massey University’s built environment and architecture research is currently ranked between 151st and 200th in the world, and its built environment research is rated five stars by the QS World University Rankings. Massey University’s research capacity within construction and built environment has expanded significantly through grants and investment, including the construction of new innovative research labs. Its research philosophy advocates a close partnership of academia, industry and government to co-create and drive innovation through research and development within a knowledge-based economy. An excellent example is the success of a team of researchers in the university who were awarded $9.96 million by the New Zealand Government to help the construction sectors’ capacity and capability issues. This five-year research project is one of the largest research investments of its kind in New Zealand, and brings together academia, industry and government in New Zealand – led by Massey University.

The university’s vision and mission to continuously advance construction in New Zealand and develop its people is always at the heart of everything it does. Join the university in 2023, and get hands-on learning within construction with commercial experience and practical skills development. Explore the digital technology revolutionising your industry and graduate work ready.

For more information, visit www.massey.ac.nz/construction.