The Faculty's mission is to provide an environment which encourages a high sense of purpose, superior performance and a vision for national leadership in the areas of design, architecture, building and property. The Faculty aims to provide opportunities for education, training and research in accordance with international standards of best practice and management.

The Faculty aims to fulfil its purpose in the following manner:

1. to provide undergraduate and postgraduate courses that both reflect and advance relevant professional disciplines
2. by way of practice-based education, to enhance the integration of educational programs with professional, industrial, commercial and societal activities
3. to focus and promote a contextual awareness in government and society in those areas of Faculty interest
4. to encourage staff and student research that will advance the Faculty's purposes
5. to encourage staff consulting that will provide a sharing of Faculty expertise and that will strengthen and develop teaching programs
to pursue strategies that will reinforce intra-faculty cooperation in research and teaching and that will promote cooperative ventures externally
6. to promote policies that will enhance the quality of teaching, technical and administrative activity and that will provide for staff development
7. to maintain and promote programs in relevant areas of continuing professional education.