The Master of Science in Digital Management of Built Assets [MSc (DMBA)] is a pioneering programme that prepares students to lead digital transformation in the built environment. The built environment is undergoing profound digital transformation, confronting challenges such as information integration, safety assurance, digital trust, carbon neutrality, and the sustainable performance of assets throughout their life cycles. MSc(DMBA) offers cutting-edge knowledge about managing and working with digital technologies, like building information modelling (BIM), geographic information system (GIS), artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and gaming technologies.
With the learning experience of disruptive digital technologies, students will be able to close the gap between virtual and reality while managing the built assets, for example, through the effective use of a single source of information within a Common Data Environment (CDE) and other digital twin technologies, setting up information requirements for asset owners, developing a successful project execution plan, understanding standards harmonisation across a project’s life-cycle, and integrating Systems of Systems (SoS) and other organisational processes to ensure the built assets can last longer and perform better.
Overall, students, through classwork, case method courses, tech simulations, and semester-long projects, will learn and develop skills in:
To be eligible for admission to the Master of Science in Digital Management of Built Assets, candidates (a) shall comply with the University's General Regulations and the Regulations for Taught Postgraduate Curricula; (b) shall hold a Bachelor's degree of this University or from a comparable institution accepted for this purpose; (c) for a candidate who is seeking admission on the basis of a qualification from a university or comparable institution outside Hong Kong, of which the language of teaching and/or examination is not English, shall satisfy the University English language requirement applicable to higher degrees as prescribed under General Regulation G2(b). IELTS and TOEFL tests must be taken within two years prior to September 1 of each admissions year; and (d) shall pass a qualifying examination, if required.