Hospitals comprise some of the most complex buildings in real estate and key components of healthcare systems. Their sophistication increases, following...

Health Services: Hospitals and Complex Facilities (BREI0012)

Hospitals comprise some of the most complex buildings in real estate and key components of healthcare systems. Their sophistication increases, following medical breakthroughs, the shift of healthcare services towards the community and advances in diagnostic and intervention technologies. The dynamics of models of care, placement in healthcare systems and relations to other hospitals add to the complexity of typologies, building organization and materiality. The module explores the evolution of hospitalization, its relation to systems and care models as well as indicative types of hospital care: from community and general hospitals to tertiary, mega-hospitals and the latest concept of medical cities.

This module primarily introduces the role and importance of management, focusing on the economic, social and political environment in which this happens with...

Management for Built Environment Professionals I (BPLN0074)

This module primarily introduces the role and importance of management, focusing on the economic, social and political environment in which this happens with regard to the production of the built environment. This is considered through a focus on the growth of managerialism in the public sector and the implications of such reform for the planning arena.
Overall, the module introduces students to the content and coverage of the realm of activities constituting `management’, including the associated processes, skills and knowledge required by modern managers. Theories and principles will be linked to examples from the public, voluntary and private sectors which are relevant to built environment professionals.

Research based module intended for POMONA Molecular Biosciences affiliate students.

Structural and Molecular Biology (Research Module) (BIOS0004)