Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 7
Pearson Edexcel Level 7 NVQ Diploma in Construction Senior Management
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 7
- Total credits144
- Guided learning410 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.
Assess and evaluate the environmental impact of developments in construction managementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and evaluate sustainable resources
- Understand how to identify and evaluate sustainable resources
- Investigate, evaluate and present sustainable requirements
- Understand how to investigate, evaluate and present sustainable requirements
- Assess the environmental impact of development proposals
- Understand how to assess the environmental impact of development proposals
Control organisational and project income and expenditure in construction managementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Allocate organisational budgets
- Understand how to allocate organisational budgets
- Prepare and agree reimbursement for loss and expense
- Understand how to prepare and agree reimbursement for loss and expense
Control project outcomes in constructionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Control projects against quality standards
- Understand how to control projects against quality standards
- Ensure project compliance with legal and statutory requirements
- Understand how to ensure project compliance with legal and statutory requirements
- Control project progress against agreed programme
- Understand how to control project progress against agreed programme
- Control project value and costs
- Understand how to control project value and costs
Develop self and others in construction managementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Manage your own resources and undertake continuing personal development in the occupational practice area
- Understand how to manage your own resources and undertake continuing personal development in the occupational practice area
- Enable people to learn and benefit from your experience
- Understand how to enable people to learn and benefit from your experience
Ensure that contracts are prepared, negotiated and concluded in construction managementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Ensure that forms of contract are prepared
- Understand how to ensure that forms of contract are prepared
- Ensure that the contract is negotiated and concluded
- Understand how to ensure that the contract is negotiated and concluded
Establish project procurement arrangements in construction managementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Select and agree procurement strategies
- Understand how to select and agree procurement strategies
- Establish project team partnering
- Understand how to establish project team partnering
- Recommend and agree a form of contract
- Understand how to recommend and agree a form of contract
Evaluate and progress the resolution of disputes in construction managementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate potential implications for the resolution of disputes
- Understand how to evaluate potential implications for the resolution of disputes
- Negotiate and progress the resolution of disputes
- Understand how to negotiate and progress the resolution of disputes
Evaluate sustainable resources and requirements in construction managementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Establish arrangements for sustainable development
- Understand how to establish arrangements for sustainable development
- Assess and provide for the conservation of energy use
- Understand how to assess and provide for the conservation of energy use
Implement strategic sourcing partnerships in construction managementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Agree and implement systems with partners
- Understand how to agree and implement systems with partners
- Monitor and control arrangements for strategic sourcing
- Understand how to monitor and control arrangements for strategic sourcing
Lead and participate in meetings in construction managementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Lead meetings
- Understand how to lead meetings
- Participate in meetings
- Understand how to participate in meetings
Manage design development and processes in constructionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and assess hazards, and identify risks
- Understand how to identify and assess hazards, and identify risks
- Make design choices to reduce health and safety risks
- Understand how to make design choices to reduce health and safety risks
- Manage the design process
- Understand how to manage the design process
Manage marketing and customer service in construction organisationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and resource the development of new products and services to meet market needs
- Understand how to identify and resource the development of new products and services to meet market needs
- Develop and implement a marketing strategy
- Understand how to develop and implement a marketing strategy
- Develop and maintain a policy to maximise client and customer satisfaction
Manage procurement processes in construction managementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate potential tenderers
- Understand how to evaluate potential tenderers
- Obtain bids and tenders
- Understand how to obtain bids and tenders
- Analyse and select successful bids and tenders and negotiate changes
- Understand how to analyse and select successful bids and tenders and negotiate changes
Manage project completion in constructionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare information for project handover
- Understand how to prepare information for project handover
- Manage project handover
- Understand how to manage project handover
Manage project evaluation and feedback in constructionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Obtain and evaluate project feedback information and make improvements
- Understand how to obtain and evaluate project feedback information and make improvements
Manage project processes in constructionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop and maintain systems for manage health, safety and welfare
- Understand how to develop and maintain systems for manage health, safety and welfare
- Establish and manage project team activities
- Understand how to establish and manage project team activities
- Implement project organisation and communication systems
- Understand how to implement project organisation and communication systems
Manage project risks and opportunities in constructionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Assess and manage project risks and opportunities
- Understand how to assess and manage project risks and opportunities
Manage teams in constructionReal 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
- Recruit, select and keep colleagues
- Understand how to recruit, select and keep colleagues
- Allocate and monitor the progress and quality of work in your area of responsibility
- Understand how to allocate and monitor the progress and quality of work in your area of responsibility
- Develop productive working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
- Understand how to develop productive working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
Prepare and agree a project brief and development programme in constructionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare proposal for a project brief
- Understand how to prepare proposal for a project brief
- Develop a programme which meets the requirements of the project brief
- Understand how to develop a programme which meets the requirements of the project brief
- Identify, assess and agree project requirements and stakeholder preferences
- Understand how to identify, assess and agree project requirements and stakeholder preferences
Prepare and submit estimates, bids and tenders in construction managementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate estimate, bid and tender enquiry documentation
- Understand how to evaluate estimate, bid and tender enquiry documentation
- Assess the resource requirements and costs within an estimate, bid and tender
- Understand how to assess the resource requirements and costs within an estimate, bid and tender
- Finalise and submit an estimate, bid and tender offer
- Understand how to finalise and submit an estimate, bid and tender offer
Provide ethical advice, judgement and service in construction managementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Exchange information and present advice on technical issues
- Understand how to exchange information and present advice on technical issues
- Resolve complex, indeterminate situations
- Understand how to resolve complex, indeterminate situations
- Practice within an ethical framework
- Understand how to practice within an ethical framework
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 7 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Assess and evaluate the sustainability and environmental impact of developments in construction management
- Bid for contracts to supply products and services
- Contract for major programmes and projects in procurement and supply
- Contribute to the procurement processes for the evaluation and selection of tenders
- Control Projects in Construction Management
- Control budgets and contract entitlement in construction management
- Determine the Environmental Impact Assessment requirements and review the Environmental Statement for a project proposal
- Develop a procurement plan and optimise supplier and service provider performance
Where this can lead
Senior Construction Safety Director
Your journey in safety is a continuous one. We're here to support your growth, whether that's becoming a leader of people or an unparalleled technical expert. The impact you'll make on people's lives and our business is truly profound.
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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 7 NVQ Diploma in Construction Senior Management
21 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Assess and evaluate the environmental impact of developments in construction management
- Control organisational and project income and expenditure in construction management
- Control project outcomes in construction
- Develop self and others in construction management
- Ensure that contracts are prepared, negotiated and concluded in construction management
- Establish project procurement arrangements in construction management
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.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.