[3] It is located in the City Centre campus in the eastern half of the Millennium Point complex.

Spanning five stories of the £114 million complex in the developing Eastside district, the centre offers courses in undergraduate and postgraduate education.

The school has academic and research links with business and industry, such as Morgan Motors, and works with international technology and engineering solution partners such as PTC and Technosoft, providers of industry standard computer aided engineering (CAE) tools.

The Birmingham School of the Built Environment,[10] known as the school of Property, Construction and Planning prior to 2011, offers accredited courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level in surveying, construction, property, architectural technology and planning.

Courses are accredited by either the Chartered Institute of Housing or the Environmental Health Registration Board.