Architecture-Building and Heritage Conservation University of Portsmouth

Overview

Accredited by the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC), this  Architecture-Building and Heritage Conservation course at University of Portsmouth encourages you to engage creatively, theoretically, and research-wise with historic buildings and sites and explore conservation design on a conceptual and practical level. These methods will help deepen your understanding of the heritage and conservation process, especially the tangible and intangible factors that encompass our historic, contemporary, cultural, and social values. Our team of heritage and conservation experts will support you in sharpening your skills and bolstering your professional practice.

Key Facts

• Through your explorations, you'll investigate the importance of retaining our heritage buildings and sites, the financial constraints and consequences of doing so, and the most effective management and restoration methods. Work with the interior, architecture, and urban scales and their interconnections, examine different historic and contemporary heritage buildings and sites to relate conservation thinking with various real-life challenges, and test out new technologies. You can also gain professional, legal, management, and administrative expertise.

• When you complete this Architecture-Building and Heritage Conservation course at University of Portsmouth, you'll have all the tools you need to pursue a career in the conservation of historic buildings and sites.

Career development

Building and heritage conservation has several benefits, including preserving local cultures and traditions, strengthening individual identity, contributing to sustainable development, and creating jobs in communities. With a salary range of between £29,000 and £46,000 per year (Archjobs, 2023; Indeed, 2023), any emerging architect keen to contribute to the posterity, wellbeing, and urban growth of our world's societies and communities will feel at home in the conservation architecture and building heritage sectors.