Building Services Engineering HNC Course in Birmingham. Classes run at University College Birmingham, full-time over one year.
The course covers how buildings are made to work for people. You'll study heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, plumbing, power supply, and energy management. It also covers safety systems and acoustics. Around 40% of UK energy is used in buildings, so this subject matters for sustainability too.
You'll finish with a Higher National Certificate in Building Services Engineering.
Our full-time or part-time Higher National Certificate (HNC) in Building Services Engineering (Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning) enables you to build up your knowledge and practical skills in building services to become a vital professional in this rapidly growing sector.
Building services engineering includes all aspects needed to make buildings work for humans and includes the lighting, heating and ventilation, lifts and escalators, acoustics, plumbing, power supply and energy management systems, plus the security and safety systems. This course produces highly-skilled assistant building services engineering technicians with the skills, professional competencies and capabilities to become successful building services designers across a range of projects. The course is suitable for those working for contractors, consultants and client organisations.
Ultimately, around 40% of all the UK’s energy is used within buildings, so good design for energy efficiency can make a real difference to our carbon emissions and energy costs. As a building services engineer, you can play a genuinely important role in helping to make our lives more sustainable, sustainability and the drive to net zero being crucial to the role of building services engineers.
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