Energy and Environmental Engineering

Our professionally accredited master’s courses offer flexible study options taught through an interdisciplinary approach. Join us as we strive to understand complex and challenging problems within the built environment, and work with us in the co-creation of new knowledge.

Choose the University of Reading

• Ranked 3rd for Building in the Complete University Guide, 2025 and 5th in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide, 2025.
• Overall, 95% of Construction Management and Engineering master’s students are satisfied with their experience (Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) 2023).
• Named Sustainable University of the Year in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025.

Our aim is the co-creation of new knowledge and understanding about complex and challenging problems. 

The School of the Built Environment comprises a distinctive interdisciplinary expertise relating to energy and sustainability. Experts in sustainable engineering solutions combine with policy specialists and social scientists to offer unique insights. Our staff have extensive experience as advisers, consultants and visiting lecturers to commercial organisations, governments and universities globally. We also attract students from all over the world and many progress to senior positions within governments. NGOs or the private sector. 

Our MSc courses are focused on ensuring an excellent student experience, drawing from the very latest leading-edge research and we pride ourselves on our first-class teaching and student support. Our curriculum extends beyond accepted models of best practice to incorporate the latest findings from research. 

Excellent facilities include a dedicated computer facilities for building energy simulations and urban microclimate simulations. The School also possesses laboratory space and experimental equipment to support student research projects.

You can choose to study over two years to fit around your work commitments, applying what you learn immediately, or study more intensively over one year. Both the full-time and flexible part-time modes of the programmes are delivered on a modular basis with teaching arranged in block weeks. Learn more about flexible modular study.