Become an expert in managing large construction projects, combining both management and digital skills.
How can we make infrastructure and the build environment more sustainable? How do we align the diverse interests of suppliers, governments, and citizens in complex construction projects? And how can smart technologies help us monitor infrastructure, reduce maintenance costs, and prevent failures? As the construction industry faces increasing complexity—driven by digitalisation, sustainability goals, and ageing infrastructure—there is a growing demand for professionals who can combine technical expertise with strong management skills. The specialisation in Construction Management & Engineering (CME) centres on the management of large projects within the construction industry, focusing on both the engineering and organisational aspects of construction processes.
What is Construction Management & Engineering?
The 21st-century construction industry is changing fast and growing more and more complex – facing many challenges at once. The CME specialisation prepares you to lead large-scale construction projects and to manage complex infrastructure assets across their entire lifecycle, from design to deconstruction and potential reuse. You’ll gain expertise in project management, procurement, and asset management, while also learning to design, simulate, and optimise construction processes using advanced digital tools. By the end of this programme, you can deliver economic and social value through building and maintaining collaborative networks, and you’ll be equipped to tackle today’s and tomorrow’s societal challenges in the built environment.
Examples of courses you might follow during this specialisation:
The course Construction Project and Programme Management will give you a comprehensive understanding of managing complex construction projects like bridges, highways, sea locks, large utility buildings, stations, railway tunnels and dikes. The course explores the intricacies of initiating, designing, and executing construction projects from an integrative perspective.
How can you incorporate sustainability in the entire lifecycle of civil engineering infrastructures, from planning, construction, maintenance, removal and renewal? The course Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure will teach you how.
If you are interested in smart infrastructure, data-driven asset management, and digital engineering practices, you could take the Digital Twinning course. You will explore what digital twins are, how they relate to existing technologies, and how they are applied throughout the lifecycle of infrastructure assets. You will also sketch your own digital twin concept, and experiment with a pre-developed digital twin prototype.
Did you know that you can also follow this specialisation as a separate master’s?
As a graduate of this Master's and this specialisation, you have acquired specific, scientific knowledge, skills and values, which you can put to good use in your future job.
After completing this Master’s specialisation, you:
have a strong combination of both management and technical knowledge, and you can apply this knowledge in technical process management and innovations regarding construction and engineering processes;
have solid knowledge in core areas within the field of construction management and engineering, including project and process management, technology aspects, markets and organisations, innovations and integrated design;
understand civil engineering processes and objects by developing (digital) models to qualitatively describe/schematise them and to quantify this description in terms of mathematical relationships.
After successfully finishing this Master’s specialisation, you:
can contribute to the functional design of complex constructions and/or design management processes in the field of construction engineering;
can manage complex assignments effectively in the context of a multidisciplinary environment, and are able to act in different roles and take up responsibility as a member and/or project leader;
are able to invent your own tools, theories and techniques for construction management and engineering if these are not readily available.
After completing this Master’s specialisation, you:
are able to form an opinion or judgement on, and contribute to, discussions about complex matters related to construction management and engineering;
know that compromises are unavoidable, and you are able to effectively deal with these;
are aware that certain decisions can have disadvantages for society, and you can communicate these to the relevant stakeholders.
Other master’s and specialisations
Is this specialisation not exactly what you’re looking for? Maybe one of the other specialisations suits you better. Or find out more about these other master's:
