CEM215: Infrastructure Development

Module code: CEM215

Module provider: School of Construction Management and Engineering, School of Built Environment

Credits: 10

Level: 7

When you’ll be taught: Semester 2

Module convenor: Professor Tabarak Ballal , email: t.ballal@reading.ac.uk

Pre-requisite module(s): This module is only available to flexible modular students who enrolled before January 2023. (Open)

Co-requisite module(s):

Pre-requisite or Co-requisite module(s):

Module(s) excluded:

Placement information: na

Academic year: 2025/6

Available to visiting students:

Talis reading list:

Last updated: 12 May 2025

Overview

Module aims and purpose

This module will explore the role of infrastructure in development and explain theoretical frameworks that underpin the processes of design, construction and implementation of infrastructure development projects. It focuses on the challenges of delivering infrastructure projects and the impact of these on achieving sustainable development goals. 

Module learning outcomes

By the end of the module, it is expected that students will be able to: 

1. Evaluate challenges pertinent to sustainable development of infrastructure projects in developed and developing countries 
2. Critique relevant theories to infrastructure development  
3. critical analysis of stakeholder participation and inclusive delivery of infrastructure development projects and the impact of these on sustainable development of communities.

Module content

• Infrastructure development: theory and practice 
• Management and risks of infrastructure development 
• Stakeholder value considerations and impact of infrastructure development on communities 
• Funding models and sources of funding
• Exemplifying applications (examples of infrastructure development projects in different contexts)

Structure

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures, supervised time in seminars and workshops and guided independent study. 

Study hours

At least 48 hours of scheduled teaching and learning activities will be delivered in person, with the remaining hours for scheduled and self-scheduled teaching and learning activities delivered either in person or online. You will receive further details about how these hours will be delivered before the start of the module.