Welcome to the Department of Building and Real Estate. The department is one of the oldest departments in the University and has been producing graduates for the construction, real estate, and related industries for over 70 years. During this time they have helped develop the infrastructure and services of the region. Many of our graduates now occupy important positions in industry. They represent an important group of people contributing to the growth and development of Hong Kong.

Today we are educating and training young people for the future of Hong Kong and China. We provide educational programmes in the construction and the real estate sectors which will enable students to develop their full potential for personal and academic development and will enable them to practice and lead within their chosen professional discipline. Our aim is to provide programmes that are application orientated, and produce graduates who can apply theories in practice. To ensure this our research is of an applied nature relevant to industrial commercial and community needs. We have established and will continue to develop dedicated partnerships with business, industry and the professions.

From the departmental web pages you will learn more about the wide range of our teaching programmes and our research activities. You will learn more about our links with other academic department throughout the world. We have an excellent reputation world-wide and are working to extend our links internationally.

Increasingly industry is looking for graduates who can work in an interdisciplinary way to create innovative solutions to the challenges of the physical and economic environment of the 21st Century. With our wide range of knowledge and expertise, the department is ideally placed to educate young people for their and our future.

The Department is introducing new programmes and amend existing programmes to ensure that the education we provide to our students will make them ideally suited to professional careers in not only Hong Kong but mainland China and Asia. Visit our section on Programmes to learn more about existing programmes and future plans.