National Institute of Technology

CONSTRUCTION & THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT Programs

Diploma in Construction & the Built Env Surveying (Level 6)

Overview

Construction and the Built Environment (Surveying) set of NIT qualification have been designed to address an increasing need for professionally and technically educated individuals to play an integral role in land development, from the planning and design of land subdivisions through to the final construction of roads, utilities and landscaping. Surveyors are the first people on any construction site, measuring and mapping the land. These primary measurements are then used by architects to understand and make the most of the unique landscape when designing and engineers to plan structures accurately and safely, ensuring buildings not only fit with the landscape but are able to be constructed. The term Construction and the Built Environment covers all human-made surroundings that provide the scenery for human activity ranging from offices, houses and parks to supporting infrastructure, like water supply and travel networks. Today’s Construction and the Built Environment should be flexible and adaptable to future uses, resilient enough to cope with climate change, and, most importantly, must enable people to live well.

Surveying is the measurement and mapping of our surrounding environment using mathematics, specialized technology and equipment. Surveyors measure just about anything on the land, in the sky or on the ocean bed. They even measure polar ice-caps.

Who is this qualification for?

Surveying has been a professional for many years. Surveyors are often heavily involved in the planning, development and construction stages of a new project. Surveyors were the first professionals involved in planning and developing the road you travel on, the shopping centers around your work place and home and even your work place and house you live in.

Construction and the Built Environment (Surveying) set of qualifications provides you with various surveying career options to meet several types of surveying careers that are available. The roles of these surveyor, however, often overlap in practice. Different roles in the surveying profession include valuation surveyors, land surveyors, quantity surveyors, and of course, the building surveyors.

Each level of the NIT Construction and the Built Environment (Surveying) will give you an option to join or further develop in the industry as a technical, technologist or professional surveyor specializing in the specific field of your interest. Surveyors operate in the office and in the field. In the field, they use the latest technology such as high order GPS, Robotic Total Stations, and aerial and terrestrial scanners to map an area, making computations and taking photos as evidence. In the office, Surveyors then use sophisticated software, such as Auto-cad to draft plans and map the onsite measurements.

Surveyors work on a diverse variety of projects from land subdivision and mining exploration, to tunnel building and major construction, which means no two days are the same. They are experts in determining land size and measurement. They also give advice and provide information to guide the work of engineers, architects and developers.

The Diploma in Construction and the Built Environment (Surveying) (Level 6) is an ideal qualification for anyone who works in any of the below-listed fields and seeks to develop career-specific skills and progress to higher levels of the program. Graduates may work in any of the following career roles/areas:

  • Assistant Building Control Surveying Technologist
  • Assistant Land Surveying Technologist
  • Assistant Quantity Surveying Technologist
  • Assistant Building Surveying Technologist
  • Assistant Design & Build Co-ordinator
  • Assistant Construction Design Technologist
  • Assistant Construction Technologist
  • Assistant Architectural Drafts Technologist
  • Assistant Architectural Technologist
  • Assistant Architectural Design Technologist
  • Assistant Site Engineering Technologist
  • Assistant Structural Engineering Design Technologist
  • Assistant Civil Engineering Design Technologist
  • Assistant Transport Engineering Design Technologist
  • Assistant Planning and Development Surveying Technologist
  • Assistant Commercial/Residential Surveying Technologist

What makes this course special?

The National Institute of Technology (NIT) is one of the world’s most successful and best-preferred applied (hands-on) learning brand. The National Institute of Technology qualifications place greater emphasis on self-employment and employer engagement and work readiness.

The NIT-Namibia provides 70% practical and 30% theory teaching and learning methodologies coupled with various practical learning-focused activities that fully engage our students.

The NIT programs in Construction and the Built Environment Surveying are work-related qualifications for students taking their first steps into employment, or for those already in employment and seeking career development opportunities.

Why you must study at NIT?

At National Institute of Technology (NIT), we know how important it is for career ambitious people to get the right education in order to start and further develop their careers.

With today’s industry and employers demanding so much more than just a qualification to contain the effects of global competition and to attain competitive edge, here are the main six (6) reasons why you must choose to study at NIT:

Work Readiness

NIT courses will give you real hands on experience in pursuing your education. It is what is called learning by doing it or action learning. Based on a 70% practical (action learning, action research, projects, reflective thinking, critical thinking, etc.) and 30% theory teaching and learning and assessments methodologies, all the NIT students become work ready (prepared) during their first year of study and graduate with strong work ethics, analytical, problem solving, communication and entrepreneurial skills which are the major factors that employers are looking for in their new recruits.

Employability

NIT’s higher vocational, technical and professional courses prepare students for employment and self-employment. The NIT courses develop a student’s employability skills as they offer the experience of real-life practical tasks and work placements. NIT’s qualifications are generally well-regarded by employers as the courses enable students to develop useful hands-on skills in respective fields of study and in critical areas such as problem solving, time management, entrepreneurial, communication, work behavior, visionary and focus minded, team work, and project planning, execution to evaluation. The knowledge and skills you get from NIT programs will make you be sought after by employers locally and globally. NIT helps students to gain strong knowledge and skills that are essential to start and successfully run their own businesses and/or to be appreciated competent and productive employees that every employer would like to hire.

Relevant

NIT courses are designed and developed with the help of the employers, industrial experts, professional bodies, higher education experts and lecturers. This keeps the NIT curriculum to be industry driven and relevant for today and the future’s job market and self-employment. NIT’s qualifications provide students with industry-specific knowledge, skills and competencies which make graduates’ work outputs to be relevant to their employers’ missions, visions and goals.

Practical Teaching and Assessments

The NIT’s teaching and learning is based on the seven (7) major principles teaching and learning through which theory knowledge is practically applied into various practical teaching and learning methods including action learning, projects supported by verifiable tangible evidences (outcomes), critical reflective thinking, case scenarios, job placements, industrial site visits, public lectures led by industrial experts, etc.

The assessment for NIT courses is largely based on regular coursework and work experience, which makes them an ideal option for those who crumble under the pressure of exams.

All the NIT programs are assessed through objective and rigor-based assignments and projects for which origination is examined through the Turnitin IT Application to ensure that each students submits his/her own true work. The outcome of these assignments must be in an implementable practical and quality standard.

Career and Education Progression

Employers value NIT’s qualifications as the courses are industry-centered and directed. In other words, unlike academic programs, the NIT courses give students the industry-specific knowledge and skills which makes them readily employable. This, combined with the problem solving, time management, entrepreneurial, communication, work behavior, visionary and focus minded, team work, and project planning skills they gained throughout their learning process give the NIT graduates a strong competitive edge to progress in senior job positions and to further pursue their postgraduate professional degrees such as Masters to Professional Doctorate Degree programs at various reputable higher education institutions/universities.

The NIT Certificate in Biomedical Sciences (Level 4) is also designed to reflect the increasing need for progression onto the high quality professional and technical education at levels 5 to 8 and beyond. These qualifications provide students with a clear career pathway so that they can be empowered to effectively and successfully progress and attain their career goals within the fastest period possible.

Reputation and Prestige

  • The industry relevance, practicality, career specific and quality of the NIT qualification will make you to standout and visibly be seen and noticed in a cloud of many academically qualified graduates.
  • As more employers expect their new employees to have relevant practical skills and competencies than costly academic knowledge, NIT makes your CV and profile standout.
  • NIT is known for stringent quality standards which govern the provision of its higher vocational, technical and professional courses. NIT is also known for its practical, relevance and Industry driven courses.
  • The above values, compounded with the work ethics, entrepreneurial and problem-solving skills you will learn and practice while studying at NIT will grant you the respect, reputation and prestige within the industry sector you will work.