Awarding Body for the Built Environment · RQF Level 6
ABBE Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Built Environment Development and Control (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 6
- Total credits90
- Guided learning168 hours
- Units in this qualification23
Awarded by Awarding Body for the Built Environment · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
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.
Allocate and monitor team work in built environment development and controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Allocate and check work in your team
- Understand how to allocate and check work in your team
- 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
Assess and determine statutory applications in built environment development and controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Determine action to reflect statutory and policy requirements
- Understand how to determine action to reflect statutory and policy requirements
- Consult on and determine applications
- Understand how to consult on and determine applications
Assess the condition of property in built environment development and controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
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 property for condition
- Understand how to inspect property for condition
- Prepare and present condition survey reports and records
- Understand how to prepare and present condition survey reports and records
Contribute to the resolution of disputes in built environment development and controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- 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
Develop briefs and establish working arrangements in built environment development and controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare and present proposals for a project brief
- Understand how to prepare and present proposals for a project brief
- Evaluate and manage risks
- Understand how to evaluate and manage risks
- Establish and monitor project team working arrangements
- Understand how to establish and monitor project team working arrangements
Develop, refine and advise on design options in built environment development and controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
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
- Advise on the selection and modification of a design proposal
- Understand how to advise on the selection and modification of a design proposal
- Prepare specifications
- Understand how to prepare specifications
Establish requirements for project procurement in built environment development and controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
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
- Recommend and agree a form of contract
- Understand how to recommend and agree a form of contract
Evaluate and recommend policy options in built environment develolpment and controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and evaluate policy options
- Understand how to identify and evaluate policy options
- Consult the community
- Understand how to consult the community
- Recommend policy options
- Understand how to recommend policy options
Exchange information in built environment development and controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Exchange information and provide advice
- Understand how to exchange information and provide advice
- Chair meetings
- Understand how to chair meetings
Implement and manage information systems in built environment development and controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Implement information systems
- Understand how to implement information systems
- Manage information systems
- Understand how to manage information systems
Interpret, evaluate and monitor research projects in built environment development and controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Implement research data collection
- Understand how to implement research data collection
- Analyse and evaluate research data
- Understand how to analyse and evaluate research data
- Communicate and present research results
- Understand how to communicate and present research results
Investigate and assess the sustainability of proposals in built environment development and controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Assess the environmental impact of development proposals
- Understand how to assess the environmental impact of development proposals
- Investigate and evaluate the viability of development
- Understand how to investigate and evaluate the viability of development
Investigate changes in the environment and policy implications in built environment development and controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse changes in the environment
- Understand how to analyse changes in the environment
- Investigate the need for changes to policies and operations
- Understand how to investigate the need for changes to policies and operations
Manage and implement incentive scheme in built environment development and controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Process and determine applications for financial incentives
- Understand how to process and determine applications for financial incentives
- Manage incentive schemes
- Understand how to manage incentive schemes
Manage projects in built environment development and controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Manage work against agreed quality standards
- Understand how to manage work against agreed quality standards
- Manage contract progress against agreed programmes
- Understand how to manage contract progress against agreed programmes
- Manage contract quantities and costs
- Understand how to manage contract quantities and costs
Monitor uncontrolled works, structures and uses and resolve breaches in built environment development and controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Manage compliance of authorised works
- Understand how to manage compliance of authorised works
- Control unauthorised works, structures and uses
- Understand how to control unauthorised works, structures and uses
- Evaluate options to resolve breaches
- Understand how to evaluate options to resolve breaches
Operate in a professional manner in built environment development and controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate complex issues and generate solutions
- Understand how to evaluate complex issues and generate solutions
- Operate in an ethical manner
- Understand how to operate in an ethical manner
- Sustain personal development
- Understand how to sustain personal development
Plan and implement environmental surveys in built environment development and controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Identify requirements for the survey
- Understand how to identify requirements for the survey
- Survey, analyse and present information
- Understand how to survey, analyse and present information
Plan and record measured surveys in built environment development controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Identify survey requirements, data standards and outputs
- Understand how to identify survey requirements, data standards and outputs
- Observe and record measurements
- Understand how to observe and record measurements
Prepare and present evidence on disputes in built environment development and controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare evidence for submission
- Understand how to prepare evidence for submission
- Present evidence to legally constituted adjudicating bodies
- Understand how to present evidence to legally constituted adjudicating bodies
Prepare and process estimate, bid and tender enquiries in built environment development and controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Shortlist tenderers
- Understand how to shortlist tenderers
- Obtain tenders
- Understand how to obtain tenders
- Evaluate tenders and appoint successful contractor
- Understand how to evaluate tenders and appoint successful contractor
Promote and advise on organisational services in built environment development and controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Promote organisational services
- Understand how to promote organisational services
- Provide guidance and advice about policy, regulatory requirements and procedures
- Understand how to provide guidance and advice about policy, regulatory requirements and procedures
Provide support for planning, implementation and monitoring of administrative services in built environment development and controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Implement administrative procedures
- Understand how to implement administrative procedures
- Monitor the implementation of administrative procedures
- Understand how to monitor the implementation of administrative procedures
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 6 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
The Evidence Evaluator
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Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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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.
- Advise on the selection and modification of a design proposal
- Assist in the collection of measured data for building or land surveys and present the data analysis
- Carry out and present condition surveys in built environment design
- Commission Research
- Contribute to the resolution of industrial disputes in the workplace v2
- Define, implement and manage information systems in planning, conservation and building control
- Develop Environmental Technology System Design Solutions
- Direct the control of project delivery against design
Where this can lead
Lead Mediator / Principal Arbitrator
Your journey here isn't just a job; it's a career built on impact, expertise, and continuous growth. We're looking for someone who wants to shape the future of dispute resolution, both within our organisation and potentially beyond.
See the whole journey →Showing 5 roles, drawn from 6 job records mapped to this qualification.
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 ABBE Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Built Environment Development and Control (QCF)
23 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Awarding Body for the Built Environment.
- Allocate and monitor team work in built environment development and control
- Assess and determine statutory applications in built environment development and control
- Assess the condition of property in built environment development and control
- Contribute to the resolution of disputes in built environment development and control
- Develop briefs and establish working arrangements in built environment development and control
- Develop, refine and advise on design options in built environment development and control
and 17 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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