康尼斯托加学院

ARCHITECTURE - building planning, design, occupancy, to the adaptive re-use of buildings.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT - based on construction management with strong links to PMI content.

SUSTAINABILITY - from design to facility operations from core initiatives such as LEED, Green Globes, BOMA BEST, and ASHRAE to ideas of net zero buildings.

FACILITY MANAGEMENT - the impact on a business of design, construction and operations of facilities.

TRANSFERABLE SKILLS - APFM program of study offers a high level of highly transferable job skills.

APFM is a dynamic four-year, co-op degree, delivered at the honours level.

This program is the only one of its kind in Canada, highlighting both project management and facility management.

Unique project-based learning environment, students learn and apply their knowledge to real-world projects using creativity and critical problem solving.

Students will gain strong foundations in architecture, construction, basic engineering and business management with comprehensive insight into project and facility management.

Additionally they will be exposed to liberal arts disciplines and practical applications for the business enterprise. Graduates entering the workforce, will have unsurpassed highly transferable skills in leadership, teamwork and individual initiative in addition to their discipline-specific knowledge and practical skills. The opportunity exists for students who have completed a related advanced three-year diploma program to bridge or transfer into the third year of this program.

Program Outcomes

Demonstrate and apply an understanding of cultural values and architectural theories of function and form in the context of codes, regulations, and their significance to a built environment.

Apply and demonstrate the use of methods, materials, specifications, costing and theories of building construction in architectural design and construction, through lab and industrial-based projects.

Demonstrate an understanding of building systems including structural, heating, ventilation, air-conditioning (HVAC), plumbing, electrical and automation, and work with appropriate persons to creatively implement and coordinate these systems in design, construction, and project and facility management.

Collect, process, manage and manipulate empirical and non empirical research about human factors, environmental forces and technologies, and apply this towards efficient management, maintenance, occupancy change and renovation of built environment in an environmentally conscientious manner.

Demonstrate an understanding and application of mandatory functions in the management of architectural and construction projects, such as planning, organizing, staffing, directing, motivating, leading, monitoring, and controlling.

Integrate the principles of business administration, architecture and the behavioral and engineering science to cope with and solve the multiple and complex problems and challenges of managing new and existing facilities, renovations and occupancy changes.

Communicate effectively and persuasively through oral, graphic, print and computer media in the preparation of reports, specifications, presentation and working documents, three-dimensional models and animations.

Graduate Opportunities

Graduates will find positions in major real estate management companies, industrial plants and corporations, architectural or engineering organizations, management companies, and various levels of government.