Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 7
Pearson Edexcel Level 7 NVQ Diploma in Built Environment Design and Consultancy Practice
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 7
- Total credits156
- Guided learning390 hours
- Units in this qualification12
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.
Direct built environment design and consultancy practice business developmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and resource the research and development of new services to meet market needs
- Understand how to identify and resource the research and development of new services to meet market needs
- Develop and maintain a policy to maximise client and stakeholder satisfaction
- Understand how to develop and maintain a policy to maximise client and stakeholder satisfaction
- Establish and monitor a marketing strategy and corporate image
- Understand how to establish and monitor a marketing strategy and corporate image
Direct built environment design investigation and researchReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Commission and evaluate investigations on potential developments
- Understand how to commission and evaluate investigations on potential developments
- Prioritise and commission research projects
- Understand how to prioritise and commission research projects
- Evaluate and communicate research findings
- Understand how to evaluate and communicate research findings
Direct built environment design teams and communicationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Select and form project design teams
- Understand how to select and form project design teams
- Establish and maintain organisation and communication systems for projects
- Understand how to establish and maintain organisation and communication systems for projects
- 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 and maintain relationships with people who are affected by your work
- Understand how to develo
Direct built environment professional and ethical practiceReal 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
- Practice within an ethical and value framework
- Understand how to practice within an ethical and value framework
- Undertake personal development in the occupational practice area
- Understand how to undertake 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
Direct design and consultancy business risks and opportunities in the built environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Assess risks and opportunities
- Understand how to assess risks and opportunities
- Manage business risks and exploit business opportunities
- Understand how to manage business risks and exploit business opportunities
- Examine and agree improvements to design and consultancy services
- Understand how to examine and agree improvements to design and consultancy services
Direct design and consultancy businesses in the built environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Manage business processes
- Understand how to manage business processes
- Conform with legal and statutory requirements
- Understand how to conform with legal and statutory requirements
- Develop and maintain a strategic health and safety policy
- Understand how to develop and maintain a strategic health and safety policy
Direct design projects in the built environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify, evaluate and agree project requirements and stakeholder preferences
- Understand how to make design choices to reduce health and safety risks
- Understand how to identify, evaluate and agree project requirements and stakeholder preferences
- Evaluate requirements for sustainable development
- Understand how to evaluate requirements for sustainable development
- Examine, approve and present design options
- Understand how to examine, approve and present design options
- Negotiate and agree design solutions
- Understand how to negotiate and agree des
Direct income and expenditure in built environment design and consultancy practiceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Update budget and cash flow projections
- Understand how to update budget and cash flow projections
- Manage valuations, income and expenditure
- Understand how to manage valuations, income and expenditure
- Manage claims for reimbursement for loss and expense
- Understand how to manage claims for reimbursement for loss and expense
Direct procurement and contract processes in the built environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Select and agree a procurement procedure with stakeholders
- Understand how to select and agree a procurement procedure with stakeholders
- 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
- Negotiate and conclude a contract
- Understand how to negotiate and conclude a contract
Direct the control of projects in the built environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Control projects against agreed quality standards
- Understand how to control projects against agreed quality standards
- Control project progress against agreed programmes
- Understand how to control project progress against agreed programmes
- Control project costs
- Understand how to control project costs
Direct the evaluation and appraisal of property in the built environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate and appraise property
- Understand how to evaluate and appraise property
- Evaluate and advise on work methods for existing properties
- Understand how to evaluate and advise on work methods for existing properties
- Advise on the maintenance of property
- Understand how to advise on the maintenance of property
Direct the resolution of disputes in built environment design and consultancy practiceReal 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
- Evaluate information relevant to a dispute
- Understand how to evaluate information relevant to a dispute
- Negotiate and progress the resolution of a dispute
- Understand how to negotiate and progress the resolution of a dispute
The honest bit
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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.
- Direct design projects in the built environment
- Direct design teams and communication
- Direct project information modelling processes for design projects
- Direct the control of project delivery against design
- Direct the management of design development and processes in construction management
- Direct the resolution of design disputes
- Evaluate and resolve disputes in planning, conservation and building control
- Investigate factors affecting project development in built environment design
Where this can lead
Senior Dispute Resolution Specialist
This role offers a challenging yet incredibly rewarding career path for someone who genuinely loves solving complex problems and helping people navigate difficult situations. The opportunities for growth, both as a specialist and potentially as a leader, are significant, and we're committed to supporting your journey every step of the way.
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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 Built Environment Design and Consultancy Practice
12 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Direct built environment design and consultancy practice business development
- Direct built environment design investigation and research
- Direct built environment design teams and communication
- Direct built environment professional and ethical practice
- Direct design and consultancy business risks and opportunities in the built environment
- Direct design and consultancy businesses in the built environment
and 6 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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