
Study Experience
The Graduate School offers an immersive educational environment where academic learning is combined with practical experimentation, providing the skills needed to build a more sustainable future.
What our students say
“I found the assignments thought-provoking, interesting, innovative and certainly challenging.”
K.W., Sustainability and Adaptation in the Built Environment
“The pattern of week-long intensive lecture and studio time in a residential setting is a great incubator for the in-depth discussion, sharing of information and experiences, and peer-to-peer learning that makes CAT quite unique.”
T.A., Professional Diploma in Architecture
As a student on the Sustainability and Adaptation course I was able to use the buildings on site as real case studies, including undertaking air pressure testing and thermal imaging on the Self Build house, undertaking experiments with green roofs, using the workshop for straw bale construction and building a prototype timber frame disaster shelter on site. Being able to witness the load testing of the world’s first rammed earth arch, made by a fellow architecture student, was quite amazing.

Helen Kennedy, Sustainability and Adaptation

Flexibility
We know that many students have jobs, families and other commitments alongside their passion for sustainability. This is why we offer flexible learning options to enable you to build your knowledge and skills without sacrificing other areas of your life.
Courses

Building design plays an important role in improving quality of life and human well-being whilst also helping with climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Green Building
Develop a deep understanding and confidence around sustainable design principles and sustainable materials, their regulatory and legal requirements and their practical use.

Sustainability in Energy Provision and Demand Management
To tackle climate change, we need a transformation in our relationship with energy. Net zero greenhouse gas emissions can be achieved through large scale investment in renewable and low carbon…

Sustainability and Adaptation
Immerse yourself in examining the causes, seriousness and urgency of climate change and – crucially – what changes are needed at international, national, local and individual level to help turn…

Sustainability and Adaptation Planning
From spatial master-planning to politics and economics, ‘Sustainability and Adaptation Planning’ focuses on the key strategic and leadership challenges brought about by climate change and broader environmental issues.

Sustainability and Adaptation in the Built Environment
Climate change poses two key challenges to modern architecture: how can buildings be made sustainable, and how can they be designed to take account of the effects of climate change?

Sustainability and Behaviour Change
It is becoming clear that major systemic, political and societal changes are necessary to move towards true sustainability to address the serious consequences of environmental and climatic change.

Sustainability and Ecology
Great changes have occurred in human society in the past 200 years, but much of this has come at the expense of the natural systems and species that keep us…

Sustainable Food and Natural Resources
Develop your knowledge and understanding of the impacts of environmental change on global and local food systems and the natural world.
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