BSC (HONS) Building Surveying
Start an exciting professional career as a building surveyor by studying for our BSc (Hons) Building Surveying degree in Chelmsford.
Why Building Surveying at ARU?
- Accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), ensuring you gain the full range of professional and technical skills required, from converting buildings to performing surveys and valuations.
- Get hands-on by developing skills in all aspects of surveying buildings. Learn how to recognise and tackle defects, and identify technical problems in construction.
- Utilise our state-of-the-art facilities including industry standard equipment, AutoCAD Studios and testing and surveying labs.
- Engage in ‘Live Briefs’, designed with regional industry partners to give you incredible exposure to real-life building surveying problem-solving.
- Benefit from strong industry links with professional institutions, local firms and building surveying experts to increase your employability upon graduation.
Building surveyors advise clients about new builds, listed buildings and historic structures.
Study at ARU, and learn how to evaluate the design, specification and performance of buildings. Develop skills in building inspection and analysis, and use industry-standard equipment to tackle technical problems in construction.
There are plenty of opportunities to get hands-on in specialist labs for materials and testing, environmental science and design, and surveying. You’ll also work in our design and AutoCAD studios.
You can choose to take a placement year as part of this course, putting your skills into practice in a real working environment.

