At Langara College in Vancouver, Canada, Cert in Construction & Development is offered as a certificate in Civil Engineering & Construction programme. The programme runs for 1 year, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English.
At a glance
Degree:Certificate
Field:Civil Engineering & Construction
Duration: 1 year
Delivery: On Campus
Language: English
We have no tuition fees on record for this programme yet — see the official programme page.
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Construction & Development is a part-time certificate built from nine core courses covering residential construction practices, cost estimating and control, reading technical drawings, real estate development, and business communications, plus at least three electives chosen from options like building energy modelling, operations management, systems analysis, entrepreneurship, or financial management. There are no academic prerequisites to start, though individual courses can carry their own, and the full 291 hours of coursework — each course requiring a C+ or better — must be finished within four years, though motivated students can technically compress it into as few as two terms rather than the minimum one year. Langara pitches it at working contractors, homeowners planning a renovation project, career changers, facility supervisors, and financial-operations professionals moving into construction, and several of its courses count toward the continuing professional development hours BC Housing requires of licensed builders. Intakes run each January, May, and September.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: There are no academic requirements to begin this program: individual courses may be taken as long as their own course prerequisites are met, and students completing the certificate do not need to apply to the program overall, since registration is by individual course. To qualify for the certificate, students must complete 291 hours of coursework with a minimum 'C+' grade in each required course, finishing all requirements within four years of starting (as quickly as two terms). No English-proficiency test scores, minimum GPA, or portfolio are specified on the program page; admission is effectively open enrollment through course registration.
Application Details
Start Date:January, May and September
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through EducationPlannerBC: for the 2027 entry cycle, applications open 1 February 2026 for Spring (January) entry, 1 June 2026 for Summer (May) entry and 1 October 2026 for Fall (September) entry, then stay open with no fixed closing date until each programme fills or classes begin. International applicants use the same EducationPlannerBC portal but face fixed closing dates: 30 September 2026 for Spring 2027, 31 January 2027 for Summer 2027 and 31 May 2027 for Fall 2027. A short list of limited-enrolment programmes - Nursing, Advanced Entry BSN, Nursing Practice in Canada, Applied Science for Engineering and the Post-Degree Diploma in Data Analytics - set their own, earlier deadlines that apply to both applicant types. Admission is otherwise rolling. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
