Awarding Body for the Built Environment · RQF Level 3
ABBE Level 3 Diploma in Surveying, Property and Maintenance (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits51
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification13
Awarded by Awarding Body for the Built Environment · on the Ofqual register
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Awarding Body for the Built Environment registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Cost Control in the Property and Construction SectorReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Know the financial framework around the property market and the nature and sources of capital
- Understand the nature of income and expenditure including the classes of income for property and professional companies and the classes of expenditure and taxation, including recoverable and non-recoverable cost
- Understand financial record keeping, both electronic and manual
- Understand the principles of cash flow and solvency and how to apply financial principles to the nature of the business model and overheads
- Understand variance analysis related to income and expenditure for contract quantities
Data collection and useReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand that information can be gathered from a variety of sources using methods appropriate to their area of work
- Select and analyse relevant information from that collected using appropriate techniques and evaluate the results
- Check the accuracy of the results obtained from analysis, make adjustments if necessary and provide results in a relevant form for the target audience
- Understand how to operate data systems including inputting, storing, sorting, identifying, retrieving and archiving data from the information system used and update and maintain the data as
Developing personal and interpersonal skillsReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different methods for communicating and sharing information
- Understand the different methods to make team work more effective
- Produce a personal development planner
Dispute Resolution in Property and ConstructionReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the reasons why disagreements on construction or property projects arise
- Understand the matters which often give rise to disagreements
- Know the requirement to have professional indemnity insurance to cover negligence in professional work
- Understand the principle of precedence in relation to courts
- Know which types of evidence are admissible in dispute proceedings
- Know the role of alternative dispute resolution methods in solving disagreements
- Know which forum to refer disputes if alternative dispute resolution procedures fail
- Understand the role of expert witnesses and their
Health, Safety and Welfare in SurveyingReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Summarise the potential hazards that may occur during survey work
- Produce a risk assessment for different types of survey work
- Understand the roles and responsibilities for employers and employees under current health, safety and welfare legislation
- Know the accident and reporting procedures under current health, safety and welfare legislation
Planning, Programming and Monitoring Construction ProjectsReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to create a project programme from resource schedules outlined in the contract period
- Prepare project programmes in a variety of ways
- Understand the relationship between the programme and resources including material deliveries, working arrangements, statutory obligations, payments, contingencies etc
- Understand the site management process, the necessary controls and obligations to third parties and contractors and the need for efficiency, site layout, access, circulation, security etc
- Understand risk factors on site, health, safety and welfare, hazards etc
- Under
Property MaintenanceReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of building maintenance, including the terms planned, unplanned and preventative maintenance and the need for emergency works
- Know the factors affecting the condition of property, forms of construction and finishes
- Understand contractual liabilities to maintain and the need for regular inspection of properties
- Understand the range of resources used in maintenance projects, including health and safety, access etc
- Know the statutory requirements for inspection, testing and maintenance of services
Property ManagementReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Know that property management is often an agency function and understand the main responsibility of the property manager
- Understand the recording systems needed for property management and the range of documents and records needed to undertake the property management role
- Understand the need for a proper accounting system
- Understand simple portfolio theory and use simple valuation techniques to determine future management strategy
- Understand the property manager’s role relating to landlords and tenants
- Understand the principles relating to service charges
- Know that regular inspections of
Property Transactions: Valuation and TaxationReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand why negotiation is necessary when undertaking statutory functions
- Know the common law and statutory provisions relating to security of leasehold tenure as it affects renewal or assignment of leases
- Understand the need for and impact of EPCs on all types of properties
- Understand the statutory rules relating to CGT and IHT linked to property transactions
- Understand the statutory rules relating to non domestic rating
- Understand the statutory rules relating to the taxation of domestic property (council tax banding)
- Know the principles relating to stamp duty land tax
- Understand th
Property Transactions: Agency/Landlord and TennantReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the common law and statutory requirements for acting in the acquisition or disposal of land or property and the different terms under which agents can be appointed
- Know the common law and statutory guidelines to develop marketing materials and basic marketing concepts
- Understand the different methods of sale
- Make or accept offers on land or property for sale/to let and negotiate terms acceptable to the buyer/landlord and seller/tenant and then qualify and evaluate the quality of offers made
- Understand common law and statutory provisions relating to security of leaseh
Property ValuationReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the interaction of supply and demand to create value
- Understand the concept of market value and the difference between a valuation and an appraisal
- Understand the factors that affect value
- Understand the basics of the five methods of valuation
- Know at least one valuation method in detail and how it is used to value land or property
- Present a valuation report to colleagues
Understanding Quantities and Tenders in ConstructionReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare bills of quantities, taking off dimensions, work up dimensions and abstracting and the Standard Method of Measurement
- Understand standard forms of contract and market conditions including regional variation
- Understand different forms of tendering and invitations to tender including statutory and EU guidelines for public works
- Know the selection criteria for pre-qualification of tenderers
- Understand the evaluation of bids and selection of the successful contractor
Understanding the Construction Process, Defects in Property and the Measurement of Buildings and SitesReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the range of purposes for which measurements may be required and the need to ensure proper arrangements for access, permissions etc have been made
- Select and maintain appropriate measuring equipment to ensure accuracy of equipment
- Understand how to work to datums or reference points to locate buildings, services, boundaries etc
- Record accurate observations, measurements and features relevant to the measurements being taken and assist in using the measurements in a variety of ways
- Understand the construction process from initial site procurement including
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- Agree client requirements and prepare terms of engagement
- Contribute to the appraisal and valuation of property
- Develop and implement property management plan
- Develop and implement property management plans
- Direct the resolution of design disputes
- Dispute Resolution
- Facilitate the maintenance of managed properties
- Investigate and evaluate factors that impact on the value of property
Where this can lead
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Skills it covers
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How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
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Built for ABBE Level 3 Diploma in Surveying, Property and Maintenance (QCF)
13 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Awarding Body for the Built Environment.
- Cost Control in the Property and Construction Sector
- Data collection and use
- Developing personal and interpersonal skills
- Dispute Resolution in Property and Construction
- Health, Safety and Welfare in Surveying
- Planning, Programming and Monitoring Construction Projects
and 7 more in the full unit list below.
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No two people run this the same way
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- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
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Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
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- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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