Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 6
Pearson Edexcel Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Built Environment Design Management (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 6
- Total credits157
- Guided learning168 hours
- Units in this qualification21
Awarded by Pearson Education Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Pearson Education Ltd 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.
Agree detailed designs in the built environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Agree a detailed design
- Understand how to agree a detailed design
- Review and assess health and safety hazards
- Understand how to review and assess health and safety hazards
- Make design choices to manage health and safety risks
- Understand how to make design choices to manage health and safety risks
Conduct condition surveys in built environment designReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Recommend and agree a condition survey process
- Understand how to recommend and agree a condition survey process
- Inspect structures for condition
- Understand how to inspect structures for condition
- Prepare and present condition survey reports and records
- Understand how to prepare and present condition survey reports and records
Confirm project requirements and needs in built environment designReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Clarify and agree project requirements and stakeholder preferences
- Understand how to clarify and agree project requirements and stakeholder preferences
- Define user needs
- Understand how to define user needs
- Define community needs
- Understand how to define community needs
Control projects in the built environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Control contract(s) against agreed quality standards
- Understand how to control contract(s) against agreed quality standards
- Control contract progress against agreed programmes
- Understand how to control contract progress against agreed programmes
- Control contract costs and issue certification
- Understand how to control contract costs and issue certification
Develop and advise on design recommendations in the built environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and assess significant factors affecting the project design
- Understand how to identify and assess significant factors affecting the project design
- Select, test and refine design options
- Understand how to select, test and refine design options
- Prepare and present project design recommendations
- Understand how to prepare and present project design recommendations
- Advise on changes to the design brief and design recommendations
- Understand how to advise on changes to the design brief and design recommendations
Develop and maintain professional relationships and practice in built environment designReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop and maintain relationships with other people
- Understand how to chair meetings
- Understand how to develop and maintain relationships with other people
- Exchange information and present advice on technical issues
- Understand how to exchange information and present advice on technical issues
- Identify, analyse and resolve complex, indeterminate situations
- Understand how to identify, analyse and resolve complex, indeterminate situations
- Practise within an ethical framework
- Understand how to practise within an ethical framework
- Cha
Develop design team programmes and working methods in the built environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare a design programme which meets the requirements of the project brief
- Understand how to prepare a design programme which meets the requirements of the project brief
- Establish project team working methods and monitor team performance
- Understand how to establish project team working methods and monitor team performance
Develop detailed designs in the built environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the purpose, methods and techniques for preparing detailed designs
- Understand how to identify the purpose, methods and techniques for preparing detailed designs
- Identify and select materials, components and systems
- Understand how to identify and select materials, components and systems
- Investigate, produce and analysedetailed design solutions
- Understand how to investigate, produce and analysedetailed design solutions
Develop self and other people and contribute to improving design services in the built environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Undertake personal development in your occupational practice area
- Understand how to undertake personal development in your occupational practice area
- Help people to learn and benefit from your experience
- Understand how to help people to learn and benefit from your experience
- Identify and implement improvements to design services
- Understand how to identify and implement improvements to design services
Establish regulatory requirements and secure consents in built environment designReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify, evaluate and confirm project regulatory requirements and constraints
- Understand how to identify, evaluate and confirm project regulatory requirements and constraints
- Report and advise on options for potential developments
- Understand how to report and advise on options for potential developments
- Prepare and process applications to secure statutory consents
- Understand how to prepare and process applications to secure statutory consents
- Prepare and process appeals and negotiate to secure statutory consent
- Understand how to prepare and p
Form and induct a project team in built environment designReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Select and form a project team
- Understand how to select and form a project team
- Induct and inform a project team
- Understand how to induct and inform a project team
Investigate and assess development options in built environment designReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate and evaluate development options
- Understand how to investigate and evaluate development options
- Assess the environmental impact of development options
- Understand how to assess the environmental impact of development options
Investigate development factors and solutions in built environment designReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify survey and investigation requirements
- Understand how to identify survey and investigation requirements
- Investigate and evaluate development factors, likely problems and potential solutions
- Understand how to investigate and evaluate development factors, likely problems and potential solutions
Manage project completion and handover in the built environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Provide information and guidance on the operation and maintenance of works and installations
- Understand how to provide information and guidance on the operation and maintenance of works and installations
- Manage project handover
- Understand how to manage project handover
- Obtain and evaluate project feedback information and make improvements
- Understand how to obtain and evaluate project feedback information and make improvements
Manage project information in built environment designReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Specify project document requirements
- Understand how to specify project document requirements
- Integrate and evaluate project information
- Understand how to integrate and evaluate project information
Manage the brief, development programme and project risks and opportunities in built environment designReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare and agree a project brief
- Understand how to prepare and agree a project brief
- Prepare a development programme which meets the requirements of the project brief
- Understand how to prepare a development programme which meets the requirements of the project brief
- Identify, assess and manage project risks and opportunities
- Understand how to identify, assess and manage project risks and opportunities
Obtain and select tenders in built environment designReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate and select potential tenderers
- Understand how to evaluate and select potential tenderers
- Obtain estimates, bids and tenders
- Understand how to obtain estimates, bids and tenders
- Assess and select successful tenders and negotiate changes
- Understand how to assess and select successful tenders and negotiate changes
Prepare and agree forms of contract in the built environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare and modify standard forms of contract
- Understand how to prepare and modify standard forms of contract
- Negotiate and agree a contract
- Understand how to negotiate and agree a contract
Prepare and submit tenders in the built environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Review tender enquiry documentation
- Understand how to review tender enquiry documentation
- Evaluate and select work methods
- Understand how to evaluate and select work methods
- Estimate the resource requirements and costs within a tender
- Understand how to estimate the resource requirements and costs within a tender
- Finalise and submit a tender offer
- Understand how to finalise and submit a tender offer
Prepare specifications in built environment designReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare prescriptive design specifications
- Understand how to prepare prescriptive design specifications
- Prepare performance specifications
- Understand how to prepare performance specifications
Specify, manage and analyse testing in built environment designReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify, specify and commission tests in construction
- Understand how to identify, specify and commission tests in construction
- Plan and manage tests
- Understand how to plan and manage tests
- Analyse and present test results
- Understand how to analyse and present test results
The honest bit
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Where these credits take you
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- Advise on the selection and modification of a design proposal
- Assess Design Services
- Carry out and present condition surveys in built environment design
- Collate project information and prepare specifications in built environment design
- Develop Environmental Technology System Design Solutions
- Direct design projects in the built environment
- Direct project information modelling processes for design projects
- Direct the control of project delivery against design
Where this can lead
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Your career path here isn't a rigid ladder; it's more like a climbing wall with many different routes to the top. We're committed to helping you find the path that best suits your strengths and ambitions, whether that's leading people, becoming a deep technical expert, or shaping the future of our entire real estate portfolio.
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
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.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson Edexcel Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Built Environment Design Management (QCF)
21 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Agree detailed designs in the built environment
- Conduct condition surveys in built environment design
- Confirm project requirements and needs in built environment design
- Control projects in the built environment
- Develop and advise on design recommendations in the built environment
- Develop and maintain professional relationships and practice in built environment design
and 15 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- 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.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
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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