Building Pathology and Management

This area focuses on technology used in older buildings and repair techniques used when this technology had failed. If this sounds like your topic of interest, have a look at some useful examples below:

Example building pathology and management dissertation topic 1:

An overview of the life of Sir Arthur Hunt.

Though public applause is often directed to Barry, Gilbert and Pugin with regard to their work in constructing the present day palace of Westminster, to students of quantity surveying, the name of Sir Arthur Hunt is also worthy of public gratitude. As one of the earliest professional quantity surveyors, Hunt estimated the cost of rebuilding the palace after the fire of 1834 and was heavily involved in the process of rebuilding thereafter. Using a variety of archive sources (notably from the Public Record Office at Kew as well as Parliament) this is a dissertation that seeks to build on existing secondary literature so as to raise the public profile of a man whom many within the industry, regard as a ‘founding father’ of the profession.

Suggested initial topic reading:

• Institution of Civil Engineers (1890). Obituary of Sir Henry Arthur Hunt (1810-1889). Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 99(1890), pp. 398-400.
• Port, M.H. (2004).Sir Henry Arthur Hunt (1810-1889). Oxford dictionary of national biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.