IHEEM has recently undertaken work with London South Bank University and its Medical Architecture Research Unit (MARU) to support the unit’s MSc in Planning Buildings for Health.
It provides flexible Masters modules that can also be taken as individual 5-day “bite size chunks” for participants’ CPD, and / or built up to the full Masters qualification.
Its aim is to provide the relevant skills to develop a high quality estate, including:
- Business planning, whole life costs and procurement delivery.
- Sustainable development and low carbon performance specification.
- Strategic estate master planning and service activity.
- Project briefing tools and delivering a customer focus.
- Project leadership, lean thinking and change management.
- Buildings-in-use evaluation and research methods.
- Evidence-based inclusive design and therapeutic environment.
Students benefit from being part of an extensive UK and international alumni learning professional support network, and from access to a unique health buildings resource library and reading room containing 50 years of healthcare planning publications. Council member and Fellow of the Institute Manju Patel (planning lead, acute services, Grampian NHS Trust), one of several IHEEM members to have undertaken the course, said: “It provided me with the confidence and knowledge to challenge both internal and external consultants and stakeholders when providing project alternatives, especially those which provided a cost saving.”
For more information visit www.lsbu.ac.uk/maru, contact Phil Astley, course director, on 0207 815 8332, or IHEEM’s Louise Corfield.
