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Dr. Garfield Young (centre), Lecturer/Programme Director, Land Surveying

and Geographic Information Systems Division in the School of Building

and Land Management, UTech, Jamaica instructs students during a land

surveying assignment.

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University of Technology, Jamaica

• ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

The Faculty of The Built Environment currently offers

eight undergraduate courses of study and two graduate

courses of study. Development of a MPhil/Doctoral

programme continues.

Accreditation

The accreditation/re-accreditation of courses of

study within the FOBE remains a top priority for the

faculty. Measures are in place to ensure that during

the next review period applications for accreditation

will be made for most of the courses of study and the

necessary preparatory work is well advanced.

Co-operative Education Activities

Co-operative education is an important element in the

curricula for most of the courses of study in the FOBE.

Students in the QS division are attached to Quantity

Surveying and related firms for an entire semester

to gain valuable industry experience in areas directly

related to their course of study. This is also the case for

students in the Land Economy and Valuation Surveying

(LEVS) course of study. Students in the Surveying

and Geographic Information Sciences (SGIS) course

are attached to surveyors in the public and private

sectors for exposure in particular areas that mirror the

professional requirements in that discipline. For the

academic year 2014/15, twenty Urban and Regional

Planning (URP) students are placed at different land

related agencies in Jamaica. The current interns are

gaining invaluable experience in the fields of disaster

management, transportation planning, local government

planning, community development planning, urban

design, community planning, environmental planning

and energy planning.

Land Surveying Practicum Exercises

The Land Surveying Practicum exercises continued with

students executing surveys in Negril, Westmoreland

Dr. Carol Archer

Dean

Caribbean School of Architecture

School of Building and Land Management

FACULTY OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT