Background

Established in 1972, the School of Housing, Building and Planning (HBP), Universiti Sains Malaysia, is one of the nation’s oldest built environment school. For nearly five decades, HBP is home to seven undergraduate programmes which cover various fields of built environment namely: architecture, interior architecture, building surveying, building engineering technology, construction management, urban and regional planning, and quantity surveying. The academic programmes at HBP are accredited with the Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA) as well as with local and global professional bodies of the various disciplines such as Malaysian Institute of Architects, Boards of Architects Malaysia, Royal Institution of Surveyors Malaysia, Board of Quantity Surveyors Malaysia, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Pacific Association of Quantity Surveyors, Board of Engineers Malaysia, Malaysian Institute of Planners and Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE). At postgraduate levels, HBP offers a range of doctoral and master’s degree programmes. The current methodologies consisting of coursework, mix mode and research, encompass a broad spectrum of the built environment, in areas of architecture, building technology, urban planning, tourism, project management, landscape architecture, interior architecture, housing and quantity surveying. HBP is also research-focused and at the frontiers of interdisciplinary research and partnerships with majority of our academicians actively conducting researches with the support of local and international research grants.