The Faculty of Built Environment was first incepted as the Faculty of Architecture in 1972.  The name was changed in 1974 when the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and the Department of Quantity Surveying was incorporated under it's administrative umbrella.  Courses offered then were in Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning, and Quantity Surveying, offered both as a three year semi-professional diploma programme and a professional degree structure. 
  

The Faculty was among the first to relocate itself to the new main campus in Skudai, Johor, across the causeway from Singapore, in 1985.  Developments in academic programmes saw the Bachelor of Building course being offered in 1988 which was changed to Bachelor of Science in Construction in 2003, and the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture in 1993.  Other academic activities includes courses offered through the auspices of S.P.A.C.E. (School of Professional and Continuing Education), initiated in 1997 and post-gradute studies in various disciplines.