Department of Construction and Property Management - University of Malta

06/09/2026

Join us this coming October 2026

18/06/2026

Today, members of staff from the Department of Construction and Property Management, together with our PhD students, attended the MICAS Symposium, which brought together insightful discussions on heritage, architecture, contemporary art, and the small state condition.

The symposium provided a valuable platform for exchanging ideas, exploring interdisciplinary perspectives, and reflecting on the challenges and opportunities facing small states within cultural, architectural, and heritage contexts.

We are grateful to MICAS for their continued openness to collaboration and constructive dialogue with the Department. We greatly value these opportunities to engage with practitioners, researchers, and cultural institutions, and we look forward to further discussions that may lead to future research initiatives and partnerships.

The symposium continues tomorrow, and we encourage all those interested in these important themes to follow the ongoing conversations.

22/04/2026

SACES site visit at KK3

22/04/2026

Students from Nottingham Trent University visited the University of Malta through a collaboration with the Department of Construction and Property Management, Faculty for the Built Environment. Lectures were delivered in class and on-site to Master level students and potential PhD candidates.

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22/03/2026

MPhil Candidate Charlene Jo Darmanin will be presenting her research at the Faculty for the Built Environment's Research Colloquium on Tuesday 24th March at 12pm. All are welcome to join.

14/01/2026

Earlier this week, students reading for a Masters of Engineering with Management, within the Department of Construction and Property Management, were given a presentation and tour around the National Football Centre project by Perit Mark Borg and Perit Chesney Grima from IAS - Innovative Architectural Structures. The project management set up and systems were explained to the students, together with the adoption of BIM for the overall design and ex*****on process. The facility is being used by the Malta Football Association as the base for its national teams, as well as a hub for the technical staff. The building incorporates a sports science centre and a category 1 stadium, which is being used for international football matches.

19/11/2025

This week, students reading for a Masters of Engineering with Management, within the Department of Construction and Property Management, visited MICAS. Exhibition Manager Guillaume Dreyfuss led the visit, discussing the complex management required during the construction of the building, which is set within a heritage context, together with the ongoing management for the successful operations of the museum. We thank MICAS for always supporting our students, while offering such insightful opportunities.

06/11/2025

Earlier this week, students reading for a Masters of Engineering with Management within the Department of Construction and Property Management visited the construction site of the new museum at St John’s Co-Cathedral. The site visit was led by AP Valletta, as Project Architects, and AX Construction, who are implementing the Works. We thank St John's Co-Cathedral for the opportunity.

22/09/2025

Last week, the Department of Construction and Property Management was represented at the 14th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions (SAHC 2025) at the SwissTech Convention Center on the Campus of EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland.

PhD Candidate Charlene Jo Darmanin presented the paper ‘The Transformation of Conservation Strategies in the Digital Era: The Case for St Paul’s Anglican Pro-Cathedral’. The upcoming publication, co-authored with Guillaume Dreyfuss (AP Valletta Future Heritage Foundation), Konrad Buhagiar (AP Valletta Future Heritage Foundation), and Prof. Rebecca Dalli Gonzi (Department of Construction and Property Management) will be published by Springer Nature in the RILEM Association Bookseries this fall.

The tower and spire at St Paul’s Anglican Pro-Cathedral in Valletta has been the focus of a seven-year restoration campaign (2017–2024). The study explores how digital technologies supported the project before, during, and after the works, through a transdisciplinary approach engaging stakeholders across carious disciplines.

The research presents an integrated, transdisciplinary framework in which data collected from ground penetrating radar (GPR), UAV inspections and photogrammetry exercises, Heritage Building Information Modelling (HBIM) and community narratives were synthesized throughout the restoration lifecycle.

The research highlights how digitial technologies can be integrated into an evolving, collaborative process informed by a broad spectrum of disciplinary and stakeholder insights, continuously informing and refining the restoration strategy. The use of digital technologies can form part of a more resilient and sustainable framework for heritage management, combining adaptability, interdisciplinary collaboration, and preservation of historical structures through well-informed and context-sensitive interventions.