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BRIEF HISTORY OF
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he origins of the
Department of
Construction Economics
and Management can be
traced to prefabricated
buildings on the sports field in the
period just after the second world.
It started off as the second part of
a single Department of Architecture
and Building Management. During
that period architects and quantity
surveyors were regulated by the same
piece of legislation, so it made sense
to house both professions in the same
department.
From the sports field, the
Department of Architecture and
Building Management moved to the
Beattie Building briefly, and then
settled in the Centlivres Building at
the south end of University Avenue.
At some point, Building Management
split from Architecture, with the
spinoff organised into two separate
departments, namely the Department
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of Quantity Surveying and the
Department of Building Management.
These provided education in quantity
surveying and building management
with a highly technical flavour. These
two departments, together with the
Department of Architecture (and
Michaelis School of Art) constituted
the Faculty of Fine Art and
Architecture.
The departments of Quantity
Surveying and Building Management
eventually merged into a single
Department of Quantity Surveying and
Building Management, with the first
head of the combined department
being Professor James W. Rabie.
The department was subsequently
renamed to the Department of
Construction Economics and
Management in 1993/1994, to signal a
shift towards a more academic (rather
than a technical/vocational) approach
to education in the disciplines.
Somewhere along the way Michaelis
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