Architecture and Environmental Engineering

Redefining architectural education. Our accredited four-year degree offers a strong focus on sustainable, high performing buildings. Graduates have a wide choice of career options including architecture, environmental services engineering, or sustainability consultancy.

Why study architecture and environmental engineering?
As the world's resources become scarce, there's a growing need to create buildings that are environmentally responsible. This calls for design professionals with the creative and analytical skills ofbotharchitects and engineers - an unusual mix of skills that is highly sought after by employers. It's these future designers who will achieve design excellence, pursuing imaginative strategies for using resources efficiently.

BEng (Hons) Architecture and Environmental Engineering is a multi-disciplinary course, producing in demand, versatile graduates with specialist knowledge and the skillset to create exciting buildings.

This joint degree enables you to work towards professional status in both engineering and architecture, developing your cultural, artistic and technological interests in parallel.

Why UWE Bristol?
On our Architecture and Environmental Engineering degree, you'll gain a rare mix of knowledge and skills that'll prepare you for this expanding sector of design.

Explore architecture, passive design, environmental physics, environmental systems in buildings and the effective use of energy and materials.

It's in the overlap between function, aesthetics and physics that true inventiveness can flourish. Each way of thinking stimulates the others, giving you innovative solutions to problems.

Learn from industry-experienced tutors and practising professionals who bring up-to-the-minute ideas from their active projects.

Develop your professional portfolio with a stream of practical design projects from real clients in the Bristol area.

Go on site visits and residential field trips in the UK and overseas to make sure your design thinking is linked to the world beyond your studies.

Where can it take me?
With a dual degree, you'll be ready for a variety of careers in architecture, environmental engineering and sustainability consultancy.

Opportunities are available anywhere from small private practices up to large multinationals like Foster & Partners, Arup and Atkins.

Many students choose to pursue further study, including our Master of Architecture, MSc Façade Engineering or MSc Building Information Modelling courses.

University is a time to try new things, meet new people and make new goals. With Clearing at UWE Bristol, you'll get the chance to take control of your future and choose an exciting path for yourself.

UWE Bristol offers over 100 professionally accredited courses, including Architecture, Accounting and Finance, Games Technology, Mathematics and Sport Rehabilitation. Whether you're studying an arts, business, healthcare or science degree, all undergraduate courses are designed with employability in mind. You can work a year in industry, study across the world, and get one-to-one careers advice on campus. It's no wonder an outstanding 89% of students find work or further study just 15 months after graduating (Graduate Outcomes Survey 2022/23, published 2025).

You'll also be studying in a top 10 most popular city in the UK (YouGov, 2026). With famous festivals, renowned galleries, lively nightclubs and independent restaurants right on your doorstep, you're guaranteed an incredible student experience in Bristol. With famous festivals, renowned galleries, lively nightclubs and independent restaurants right on your doorstep, you're guaranteed an incredible student experience in Bristol.

Your Future, Right Here. Study at UWE Bristol. Choose to do Clearing right.