My life in the Built Environment: Guest blog by Karl Bunting, UCEM Foundation Year Programme Leader

My life in the Built Environment: Guest blog by Karl Bunting, UCEM Foundation Year Programme Leader

Starting out I got into the Built Environment as an apprentice electrician. I became a Facilities Manager for Marks & Spencer having worked in various electrical based trades. Travel I…

Spotlight on Sadaqat Hussain, UCEM’s Asian Apprenticeship Awards nominee

Spotlight on Sadaqat Hussain, UCEM’s Asian Apprenticeship Awards nominee

UCEM’s Chartered Surveyor Degree apprentice, Sadaqat Hussain, has been nominated in the Construction category for the Asian Apprenticeship Awards in October. Sadaqat, an Apprentice Surveyor at Cushman & Wakefield, is…

Podcast: The benefits of studying part-time

Podcast: The benefits of studying part-time

Our MBA Construction and Real Estate Programme Leader, Peter Escreet, and alumna, Sara Williams, who studied on our BSc (Hons) Real Estate Management programme, recently were on the EG Property…

Student stories: Leslie’s experience of being an international student

Student stories: Leslie’s experience of being an international student

Our latest ‘Student stories’ blog comes from our BSc (Hons) Building Surveying student, Leslie James, who tells us about his experience of being an international student at UCEM… I have…

World Environment Day: A student’s view on sustainability

World Environment Day: A student’s view on sustainability

To mark the UN’s World Environment Day taking place today, we spoke to a student about sustainability and how studying with UCEM has impacted on her approach to being sustainable,…

Lucy Roper’s weekly Built Environment blog: Making things better, the gender pay gap and a pet’s playground

Lucy Roper’s weekly Built Environment blog: Making things better, the gender pay gap and a pet’s playground

Each week, UCEM Information Governance Manager, Lucy Roper points us in the direction of interesting stories from the Built Environment. This week, Lucy looks at the latest RICS Modus magazine’s…

Student stories: How studying with UCEM changed Sara’s life

Student stories: How studying with UCEM changed Sara’s life

This month’s ‘Student stories’ blog comes from a recent graduate of ours, Sara Kelleher, who studied on our BSc (Hons) Real Estate Management programme from 2013-2018. She tells us her…

National Apprenticeship Week 2019: Attending an apprenticeship workshop. Guest blog by our Events and Communications Manager, Hannah Peck

National Apprenticeship Week 2019: Attending an apprenticeship workshop. Guest blog by our Events and Communications Manager, Hannah Peck

On Tuesday (5 March) I spent the day in London at one of our Surveying Technician Apprenticeship workshops. In my job as Events and Communications Manager I don’t often get…

National Apprenticeship Week 2019: Our Lead AOO, Debi Gaskin-Palmer shadows our Lambert Smith Hampton apprentices, Alex Clifton and Jack Deakin in Lincoln

National Apprenticeship Week 2019: Our Lead AOO, Debi Gaskin-Palmer shadows our Lambert Smith Hampton apprentices, Alex Clifton and Jack Deakin in Lincoln

To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week, we are sending out four of our Apprenticeship Outcomes Officers (AOOs) to shadow several apprentices throughout the week. The shadowing opportunities will provide our AOOs…

Lucy Roper’s weekly Built Environment blog: Reasons to be cheerful

Lucy Roper’s weekly Built Environment blog: Reasons to be cheerful

Each week, UCEM Information Governance Manager, Lucy Roper points us in the direction of interesting stories from the Built Environment. This week, Lucy decides to give news about Brexit a…

Student stories: Ranikque’s determination to become a Quantity Surveyor

Student stories: Ranikque’s determination to become a Quantity Surveyor

This month, we are publishing the first in a new monthly blog series looking at individual student stories. The blogs will provide an opportunity to give current UCEM students the…

My life in the Built Environment: Guest blog by Jonathan Hubert, UCEM’s BSc (Hons) Building Control Programme Leader

My life in the Built Environment: Guest blog by Jonathan Hubert, UCEM’s BSc (Hons) Building Control Programme Leader

First Built Environment experience I finished school at 18 but didn’t get the grades needed to undertake the Philosophy and Economic History degree at the University of Bristol I had…