Facilities management BSc (Hons)

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In a fast changing world with cooperate restructuring and continuous technological development, the role of Facilities Manager continues to gain importance. Further, the ever increasing building and infrastructure stocks have created a growing need for Facilities Managers in Sri Lanka and overseas.

Therefore, with the intention of providing skilled professionals to cater this demand, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka commenced a Bachelor of Science (Honours) Degree in Facilities Management under the patronage of the University Grants Commission of Sri Lanka.

The objective of establishing the B.Sc. in Facilities Management degree course is to produce professionals who will be capable of managing facilities in a built environment.

The four-year full-time course is being conducted by the Department of Building Economics, which is well known for producing world recognized Quantity Surveyors for nearly two decades.

The first batch of Facilities Management undergraduates were enrolled in year 2006 and currently three batches of students are being coached by a specialized panel of lectures.

Unique features of the course

Problem based and industry focused learning

A dedicated team of lecturers who are specialized in a variety of fields

34 weeks of industrial training

A supervised research dissertation

The accreditation for B.Sc. in Facilities Management degree programme from the Royal Institution of the Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is a remarkable achievement.

RICS is the pre-eminent organisation of its kind in the world and its represents everything that is good in the property profession. It has approximately 140000 members in 146 countries. Re-accreditation was carried out in 1999, 2003, 2006 and in 2010 where the Facilities Management degree course also received the accreditation from RICS.

The Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (AIQS) has accredited the Quantity Surveying course making it the only degree program accredited by both RICS and AIQS in the entire South Asian region.