Deakin’s Bachelor of Design (Architecture)/Bachelor of Construction Management (Honours) is a unique degree that combines studies in key aspects of the built environment. Explore architectural ideas and design approaches while learning how to manage construction projects, no matter their scale or scope. Gain in-depth knowledge and skills in architecture, design, construction and project management, while exploring your options for a diverse career in the built environment industry.
With an emphasis on practical learning, you will gain plenty of hands-on experience with opportunities for industry placements and involvement in real-world projects. Develop creative process and practical skills by exploring design, drawing, digital fabrication, measuring, estimating, project management and construction knowledge. Graduate workplace-ready with opportunities for site visits, international study tours and exchange.
Want to launch your career on the world stage?
The Bachelor of Design (Architecture)/Bachelor of Construction Management (Honours) qualifies you to work in Australia or overseas, in more than 50 countries. It offers an excellent mix of hands-on practice and theory, so that you graduate job ready.
While studying a combined course in architecture and construction management you’ll learn about:
architectural history, theory and design
computer-aided modelling and digital fabrication
drawing and model making as part of the design process
building economics and law
building practice
measurement and estimation
project management
quantity surveying
construction technology building science and the environment.
Within this course, you will work closely with other architecture and construction management students, creating a multidisciplinary learning experience that stands out to potential employers.
It will also allow you to better recognise the mindset and drivers of an architect or construction manager when working together in industry.
Our location in Geelong gives us a unique environment to explore urban and regional issues and multiple scales of projects. We are positioned to connect the city to regional Victoria through our learning experiences and research, opening up opportunities to examine our community’s sustainability and resiliency through our design-based investigations.
With the design (architecture) component of this course, you’ll gain practical skills studying real-world projects in a studio environment and develop your ability to generate, analyse and communicate your own ideas. You will learn to integrate creative thinking with the practical and technical necessities of the real world, and develop skill sets that allows you to examine and shape the places we inhabit, including all building types, spaces and locations.
The construction management component will give you the skills to manage small-to-large projects that need knowledge across construction technology and processes, resource management, law, information technology, environmental management and construction economics.
Your learning space will include Deakin’s purpose-built a+b studio open 24/7 providing an open plan space to work collaboratively, share ideas and develop your projects. There is access to our architecture workshop that offers you a place to fabricate models and experiment with technology, materials and processes. The workshop is fully equipped with 3D printers, laser cutters, CNC routers and traditional tools and machinery.
Indicative student workload
You can expect to participate in a range of teaching activities each week. This could include classes, seminars, workshops, site visits and online interaction. You can refer to the individual unit details in the course structure for more information. You will also need to study and complete assessment tasks in your own time.
Professional recognition
The construction management stream of this combined course is professionally accredited by industry. Graduates qualify for membership of:
Australian Institute of Building (AIB)
Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (AIQS)
Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB)
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
The architecture stream of this combined course is subject to regular and rigorous review processes, carried out by external professional bodies.
Architects Accreditation Council of Australia (AACA).
Australian Institute of Architects (AIA)
When this combined course is followed with the Master of Architecture you will have successfully completed an accredited academic qualification and on your way to becoming a registered architect with the ARVB Architects Registration Board of Victoria.
Career opportunities
This cross-discipline course gives you more options for your future career. Career opportunities include:
architect*
construction Manager
3D architectural modeller
building designer
building project manager
draftsperson
estimator
quantity surveyor
contract administrator.
Upon graduating, if you would like to pursue a career as a registered Architect, you are able to articulate to Deakin’s accredited postgraduate studies in Architecture. This enables you to undertake part of the requirements for registration as an Architect under the Architects Registration Board of Victoria, and Architects Accreditation Council of Australia.
Participation requirements
Reasonable adjustments to participation and other course requirements will be made for students with a disability. Click here for more information.
Fees and charges vary depending on your course, the type of fee place you hold, your commencement year, the units you choose and your study load. To find out about the fees and charges that apply to you, visit the Current students fees website or our handy Fee estimator to help estimate your tuition fees.
Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as photocopying or travel.
Course Learning Outcomes
Please refer to the Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) of both the single degrees.
Course rules
To complete the Bachelor of Design (Architecture)/Bachelor of Construction Management (Honours), students must attain 40 credit points, which must include the following:
Thirty-six (36) core units (39 credit points)
One (1) elective unit (level 2 or above) (1 credit point)
Completion of SRA010 Safety Induction Program (0-credit point compulsory unit)
Completion of STP050 Academic Integrity (0-credit point compulsory unit)
Architecture Design Studio 06: Superstudio (2 credit points)
Accelerated program
Bachelor of Design (Architecture)/Bachelor of Construction Management (Honours): (accelerated program)
The Bachelor of Construction Management (Honours) component of this course may be taken as an accelerated program. By taking selected units in Trimester 3 the course can be completed in four years instead of five.
In addition to work integrated learning, or short term study tour opportunities, you may have an opportunity to contribute to the student led, designed and managed end of year curated exhibition - PaperSpace.
