Career Excel Academy (CEA) is a private higher education provider based in Halfway House, Midrand, Gauteng, with a secondary office at Highveld Techno Park, Centurion. The academy states it has over 25 years of combined experience and describes itself as a registered private higher education institution developing professionals for South Africa's built environment sector, covering the property life cycle from land acquisition to demolition. It specializes in quantity surveying, facilities and asset management, construction project management, and property development, targeting working adults through flexible, multimedia and self-paced open-learning models. CEA holds a DHET Certificate of Provisional Registration (2025-2027) covering its Higher Certificates in Quantity Surveying and Facilities Management, and lists accreditation/endorsement relationships with several built-environment professional bodies, including ECSA, SACPCMP, SAFMA, SAAMA, and SACQSP, for various CPD-validated short courses.
Qualifications & Programmes
- Higher Certificate in Construction Quantity Surveying
- Higher Certificate in Facilities Management
- Construction Project Management (One-Year Learning Programme)
- Property Development (One-Year Learning Programme)
- Commercial Real Estate Specialist Course (one-year)
- 12-Week Facilities Management Programme
- 12-Week Property Development Programme
- 12-Week Asset Management Programme
- 12-Week Construction Project Management Programme
- 5-Day Construction Technology Programme
- 5-Day Introduction to Construction Project Management (SACPCMP)
- 5-Day Introduction to Construction Project Management (ECSA)
- 3-Day Construction Project Management Course (SACPCMP)
- 3-Day Introduction to Construction Project Management (ECSA)
- 3-Day Self-Paced Learning Programme (SLP) in Facilities Management
- 3-Day SLP in Property Development
- 3-Day SLP in Construction Project Management
- 3-Day SLP in Immovable Asset Management
- 1-Day Introduction to Construction Project Management (ECSA)
- 1-Day Introduction to Construction Project Management (SACPCMP)
- 1-Day Introduction to Construction Project Management
- 1-Day Introduction to Facilities Management
- 1-Day Introduction to Immovable Asset Management (SAAMA)
- 1-Day Introduction to Immovable Asset Management (ECSA)
- 1-Day Introduction to Property Development
- 1-Day SLP: Introduction to Asset Management
- Self-Paced Construction Project Management Course (approx. 4 months, ECSA CPD credits)
- Self-Paced Property Development Course (approx. 4 months, ECSA CPD credits)
- Self-Paced Facilities Management Course (approx. 4 months, ECSA CPD credits)
- SACPCMP Validated Course
- ECSA Validated Course
- SAAMA Validated Course
- Property Short Courses (self-paced, foundational, ~10 hours each), including: Residential Letting Management, Commercial Letting Management, Sectional Title Management, Property Insurance Management, Trust Account Management, Utilities Management, Debt Collection Management, Property Sales Management, Legislation, Customer Service, Professional Workplace Conduct 1, Professional Workplace Conduct 2, Performance Management for Staff, Advanced Excel Programme
- Sectional Title Bundle (course bundle)
- Property Practitioners Bundle (course bundle)
- Trust Account Management Bundle (course bundle)
- Property Course Bundle
- Assistant Handyperson Skills Programme
- Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) pathway