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Faculty of The Built Environment
The Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of Technology, Jamaica is a unique academic unit in the Anglophone Caribbean. It brings together architecture, land surveying, geographic information sciences, urban and regional planning, Real Estate Management and Valuation surveying, quantity surveying, structural engineering, construction engineering, construction management, and Mines & Quarry Management. This is the place to be for those who desire to build a professional career in any of these fields. FoBE graduates are highly regarded, highly placed, and sought after throughout the Caribbean and beyond.
Our Mission
Our Vision
FOBE is an integrated, multi-disciplinary arm of UTech, Ja, fueling national and regional sustainable development through the effective use of signature pedagogies, research, consultancies & close links with built environment & related experts.
Dr. Laurence Neufville
Associate Professor/Dean, Faculty of The Built Environment
Dean's Message
The members of the Faculty of the Built Environment (FoBE), which comprise the School of Building and Land Management and the Caribbean School of Architecture, welcome new and returning students. We are happy that you chose our faculty as the place to mold you into the professionals you aspire to be, and we are certain that the year will be a fulfilling and rewarding one. Here at the FoBE, we take our role as facilitators of attaining your goals very seriously and work tirelessly toward ensuring that upon graduation you will have mastered the UTech, Ja., graduate attributes to make you work-ready.
As part of our overall mandate, the faculty remains committed to our mission to deliver optimal service utilizing a cadre of staff with the requisite skills, passion, and experience to guide the teaching and learning process. We are also committed to provide you access to built environment professional and experts who remain part of our team and who stand ready to extend industry guidance. At the Faculty of the Built Environment, you are also guaranteed to understand more about your community and the role your education will allow you to make toward its betterment. We are serious about our students understanding the ways in which the built environment as a profession can contribute to achieving the sustainable development goals, and how our graduates can become change agents for climate action.
The Faculty of the Built Environment is more than just a place to learn. It is a place to grow, and a place to make your voices heard. It is a place to find out who you are. As you work on becoming the built environment professionals you aspire to be, I implore all students to utilize the opportunities that the faculty (as well as the wider university) presents for fulfilling your limitless potential, through its academic, administrative and ancillary staff and through the colleagues you will encounter and friends you will make during your tenure. As you do that, commit to becoming the change you want to see in your communities.
Enjoy your stay with us. We look forward to serving you.
FOBE Orientation 2023
FOBE Orientation - Academic Year 2023-2024
FOBE Schools
Social and technical skills to foster and enhance creativity
Courses of Study
In order to ensure accountability, guarantee that our programmes meet the relevant Higher Education standards and provide acceptable levels of quality education to our customers, we submit our degree programmes through the rigours of accreditation and re-accreditation by the University Council of Jamaica (UCJ).
Student Showcase
See works from our students
CSA Student Work
The script used in this video references the Head of School of the Caribbean School of Architecture, Architect Jacquiann Lawton, welcome message published on August 23, 2021.
SBLM Student Work
HITResetCaribbean/MINDSET
Use of data and tools to map and monitor coastal informal settlements (MINDSET)
Mindset: Monitoring Data for Informal Settlement
The University of Technology, Jamaica through its Faculty of The Built Environment in collaboration with the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency and Anton de Kom University of Suriname have received third-party grant funding through the Organisation of African, Caribbean, and Pacific States (OACPS) as part of the ACP Innovation Fund sponsored by the 11th European Union Development Fund, to implement the project titled “Harnessing Innovative Technologies to Support Resilient Settlements on the Coastal Zones of the Caribbean (HIT RESET Caribbean)”.
The aim of this collaboration is for HIT RESET Caribbean to finance innovations in support of resilient coastal settlements in the Caribbean. To this end, UTech, Jamaica has partnered with Acacia Consulting & Research (Canada) and Nouvel Strategies (Saint Lucia) to look at the use of data and tools to map and monitor coastal informal settlements, for Jamaica and St. Lucia. We are also seeking to partner with the Urban Development Corporation which is greatly concerned about informal settlements on UDC land to increase the local perspective of the HIT RESET project. The expected funding is Euro 336,023.89 payable to UTech, Jamaica over the duration of the project to cover staff and equipment costs associated with the project activities.
The Faculty project team comprises the following team members:
Prof. Carol Archer
Project Lead/Urban Planner
The Project Lead will oversee the technical management of the Project and liaise with the key stakeholder as necessary to ensure challenges to implementation are overcome and will be the main point of verbal communication on the project.
Dr. Glendon Newsome
Land Surveyor/GIS Specialist
The Land Surveyor/GIS Specialist will collect datasets from settlements, model testing and testing of methodology, work with the statistics department to create custom census profiles, assist Project Lead with validation of methodology, validation of the site selection of the communities, assist with the validation of the methodology and create a common platform with Jamaica and St. Lucia
Mr. Keniel Roberts
Land Surveyor
The Land Surveyor will assist the (commissioned) Land Surveyor/GIS Specialist in all activities.
Ms. Sheryll Thomas
Project Manager
The Project Manager will support day to day communications with the HIT-RESET Caribbean team, review and submit Project deliverables, and manage contracts and budgets, Project finances, assist with the scheduling of meetings and preparation of reports.
Oversight of the project activities will be undertaken by assigned members of the SGSRE in accordance with the University’s procedural mandate for projects.
Module Selection Guide
Download our guides to help you select your path to excellence
- BSc. in Urban & Regional Planning
- BSc. in Mines and Quarry Management
- BSc. Real Estate Management & Valuation
- Associate Degree in Surveying and Geographic Information Technology
- Post-Diploma Bachelor of Science in Construction Management
- Diploma Construction Management
- Diploma in Structural Engineering
Faculty Modal Spreadsheet
See detailed spreadsheet here!
Academic Introduction Video
Here is a list of information to get you started:
Academic Advisement Coordinators -
- Arch. Mlela Matandara-Clarke (CSA)
- Mrs. Shelley-Ann Irons (SBLM)
Academic Advisement Information 2024
Undergraduate Session
The School of Building and Land management is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: SBLM Pre-registration Forum Academic Advisement Session 2024
Date: Thursday, July 25, 2024
Time: 12 noon – 2:00 pm.
Meeting ID: 999 8593 1571
Passcode: 170721
Undergraduate Session
The Caribbean School of Architecture is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting:
Topic: Pre-registration Academic Advisement
Date: July 25, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM
Meeting ID: 925 3298 6005
Passcode: 450425
Graduate Session
Professor Carol Archer is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting for our virtual pre-registration forum at UTech
Date: July 25, 2024
Time: 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Meeting ID: 897 3556 7778
Passcode: 358412
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89735567778?pwd=7nx2inh5MfqVOm7albhg5CUwWoanbA.1
Contact Us
We're here to help you
- Office of the Dean
- 1 (876) 970-5257
- 1 (876) 970-2242
- Office of the Caribbean School or Architecture
- 1 (876) 977-5744
- 1 (876) 970-0593
- Office of the School of Building and Land Management
- 1 (876) 977-1072
- 1 (876) 927-1680
- Ext. 2333 • 2342 • 2334 • 2335
- Ms. Cynthia Baker
- Student Representative: Caribbean School of Architecture
- cbaker@utech.edu.jm
- 1 (876) 977-5944
- Ms. Marjorie James
- Student Representatives: School of Building and Land Management
- marjorie.james@utech.edu.jm
- 1 (876) 970-5335
- Ms. Mareka Sutherland
- Student Representatives: School of Building and Land Management
- msutherland@utech.edu.jm
- 1 (876) 970-5334
