History of Building Department

 

The Department of Building is one of the eight Departments that make up the Faculty of Environmental Sciences of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.  The Department started admission of students for the undergraduate programme in 2001/2002 session.

The Undergraduate Programme of the Department is a five-year academic programme with serious Practical course curriculum which leads to the award of Bachelors of Science (B.Sc) Degree in Building. The programme is structured to equip the graduates with the requisite academic and practical background to meet the mission of the programme which is to educate and train our graduates for sound scientific, technical, entrepreneurial and managerial skills needed for the management of building production (methods, men, machine money and materials), building research, quality, costs and value analysis of projects for the benefit and satisfaction of clients.

In pursuit of these concepts, a number of courses have been drawn from different disciplines such as Natural Sciences, Engineering, Management and Social Sciences including other spheres of Environmental Sciences to give the graduate sufficient base with which to face the contemporary society.The courses offered in this Department are categorized into two, namely, compulsory and elective courses.  The students are expected to take all the compulsory courses and some of the elective courses depending on the student’s area of interest.

For graduation, the student must have taken and passed the compulsory courses as well as the elective’s which total credit units must not be less than the minimum specified in the University Academic regulation.