Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited · RQF Level 3
EAL Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Installing Electrotechnical Systems and Equipment (Buildings, Structures and the Environment)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits104
- Guided learning726 hours
- Units in this qualification18
Awarded by Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited · on the Ofqual register
Start here
See how this course maps onto your role
Ten quick questions, one per Future Fluency, asked against this qualification rather than a generic one.
Check my fluency, free
About 5 minutes · No card · Nothing to commit to
What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
This occupational qualification is for electricians working in the building and construction sector. It covers the installation of electrotechnical systems and equipment in buildings, structures, and the environment. Learners will develop skills in inspection, testing, commissioning, fault diagnosis, and applying health and safety legislation.
These are the units Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited 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.
Applying Health and Safety legislation and working practices _Installing and Maintaining Electrotechnical Systems and Equipment_Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
It teaches you to apply Health and Safety legislation and safe working practices when installing and maintaining electrotechnical systems and equipment. You'll identify hazards, assess risks, implement remedial actions, and ensure compliance with relevant legislation.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply relevant Health and Safety legislation in the workplace.
- Assess the work environment for hazards and identify remedial actions in accordance with Health and Safety legislation.
- Apply methods and procedures to ensure work on site is in accordance with Health and Safety legislation.
- Apply procedures to deal with and report health and safety issues in accordance with Health and Safety legislation.
Applying environmental legislation, working practices and the principles of environmental technology systemsReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit provides knowledge and skills to apply environmental legislation, working practices, and principles of environmental technology systems within electrotechnical services. You'll implement methods to reduce material wastage and minimise environmental impact.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply environmental legislation, working practices and principles for electrotechnical services.
- Apply work methods and procedures to reduce material wastage and the impact of work activities on the work environment.
- Supply information on environmental technology systems in the work location.
Diagnosing and correcting electrical faults in electrical systems and equipment in buildings, structures and the environmentReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll develop the ability to diagnose and correct electrical faults in systems and equipment within buildings, structures, and the environment. The unit includes confirming system safety, identifying faults using appropriate methods, and rectifying issues in accordance with regulations.
What you'll be able to do
- Confirm safety of the system and equipment prior to diagnosing and correcting electrical faults in accordance with statutory and non statutory regulations
- Carry out procedures to identify faults on electrical systems and equipment
- Correct faults on electrical systems and equipment
ELECTROTECHNICAL OCCUPATIONAL COMPETENCEReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit develops electrotechnical occupational competence by enabling learners to interpret specifications, undertake risk assessments, safely isolate electrical circuits, and carry out installation, termination, connection, inspection, verification, testing, and certification tasks.
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret specifications, drawings and diagrams.
- Undertake risk assessments.
- Carry out the safe isolation of electrical circuits and complete electrical installations.
- Plan and prepare to install, terminate and connect wiring systems.
- Complete the installation, termination and connection of wiring systems in accordance with industry requirements.
- Complete the visual inspection, initial verification and certification of an electrical installation.
- Complete the testing and certification of an electrical installation in accordance with industry requirements.
- Diagnose, and recommend how to rectify, electrical faults in an electrical installation in accordance with industry requirements.
Inspecting, testing, commissioning and certifying electrotechnical systems and equipment in buildings, structures and the environmentReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit covers the inspection, testing, commissioning, and certification of electrotechnical systems and equipment in buildings, structures, and the environment. You'll learn to confirm system safety, identify faults, and ensure compliance with statutory and non-statutory regulations.
What you'll be able to do
- Confirm safety of the system and equipment prior to completion of inspection, testing and commissioning in accordance with statutory and non statutory regulations
- Inspect electrotechnical systems and equipment
- Test electrotechnical systems and equipment
- Commission electrotechnical systems and equipment
Overseeing and organising the work environment _Electrical Installation_Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll learn to oversee and organise electrical work environments effectively. The unit includes providing technical and functional information, overseeing health and safety, coordinating with relevant personnel, and organising work activities and operations.
What you'll be able to do
- Provide relevant people with technical and functional information for work on electrical systems and equipment.
- Oversee Health and Safety during work on electrical systems and equipment.
- Co-ordinate liaison with other relevant persons during work activities.
- Organise and oversee work activities and operations.
- Organise a programme for working on electrical systems and equipment.
- Organise the resource requirements for work on electrical systems and equipment.
Planning, preparing and installing wiring systems and associated equipment in buildings, structures and the environmentReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit equips learners with skills to plan, prepare, and install wiring systems and associated equipment in various environments. You'll interpret information, ensure compliance with specifications, and accurately measure and mark out installation locations.
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare the working environment for the installation of wiring systems, enclosures and associated equipment.
- Correctly interpret appropriate information for the installation of wiring systems, enclosures and associated equipment.
- Confirm that planned work is in accordance with the installation specification.
- Confirm the electrical supply is in accordance with the installation specification.
- Measure and mark-out the fixing and fitting locations for wiring systems, wiring-enclosures and equipment in accordance with current relevant statutory and non statutory regulations.
- Fit and fix wiring systems, wiring enclosures and associated equipment safely in accordance with the installation specification.
- Confirm any variations to the installation specification or planned programme of work.
Terminating and connecting conductors and cables in electrical systemsReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll gain the skills to safely terminate and connect conductors and cables in electrical systems. The unit covers confirming system safety prior to work, applying correct termination techniques, and verifying that connections are safe and free from defects.
What you'll be able to do
- Confirm the safety of the system prior to completion of any termination and connection in accordance with statutory and non-statutory regulations.
- Terminate and connect conductors in electrical wiring systems and equipment.
- Confirm that terminations and connections are safe and free from defects in accordance with statutory and non-statutory regulations.
Understanding Health and Safety legislation, practices and procedures _Installing and maintaining electrotechnical systems and equipment_Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit provides learners with an understanding of Health and Safety legislation, practices, and procedures relevant to installing and maintaining electrotechnical systems and equipment. You'll understand legislative impact, workplace procedures, and responsibilities of employers and employees.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how relevant Health and Safety legislation applies in the workplace.
- Understand the procedures for dealing with health and safety in the work environment.
- Understand the procedures for establishing a safe working environment.
- Understand the requirements for identifying and dealing with hazards in the work environment.
Understanding environmental legislation, working practices and the principles of environmental technology systemsReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll explore environmental legislation, working practices, and principles relevant to electrotechnical work. The unit focuses on methods to reduce material wastage, minimise environmental impact, and the application of environmental technology systems.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relevant environmental legislation pertaining to work activities within the electrotechnical sector.
- Understand the working practices that minimise environmental impact during electrotechnical work.
- Understand the fundamental principles of environmental technology systems used in electrotechnical applications.
- Understand how work methods and procedures can reduce material wastage in electrotechnical installations.
- Understand how work methods and procedures can reduce the environmental impact of electrotechnical installations.
- Understand the application of environmental technology systems in various electrotechnical contexts and locations.
Understanding health and safety legislation, practices and procedures (installing and maintaining electrotechnical systems and equipment)Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
Covers health and safety legislation and practices relevant to electrical installation work.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand health and safety legislation applicable to electrical systems installation.
Understanding principles, practices and legislation for the inspection, testing, commissioning and certification of electrotechnical systems and equipment in buildings, structures and the environmentReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll gain knowledge of principles, regulatory requirements, and procedures for the inspection, testing, commissioning, and certification of electrotechnical systems. The unit covers safe isolation and preparation of electrical installations.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles, regulatory requirements and procedures for completing the safe isolation of an electrical circuit in preparation for inspection, testing and commissioning.
- Understand the principles, regulatory requirements and procedures for completing the safe isolation of complete electrical installations in preparation for inspection, testing and commissioning.
- Understand the principles and regulatory requirements for inspecting electrical systems.
- Understand the principles and regulatory requirements for testing electrical systems.
- Understand the principles and regulatory requirements for commissioning electrical systems.
- Understand the principles and regulatory requirements for inspecting electrical equipment.
- Understand the principles and regulatory requirements for testing electrical equipment.
- Understand the principles and regulatory requirements for commissioning electrical equipment.
- Understand the principles and regulatory requirements for inspecting electrical components.
- Understand the principles and regulatory requirements for testing electrical components.
- Understand the principles and regulatory requirements for commissioning electrical components.
- Understand the regulatory requirements and procedures for completing the inspection of electrical installations.
- Understand the regulatory requirements and procedures for the safe testing of electrical installations.
- Understand the regulatory requirements and procedures for the safe commissioning of electrical installations.
- Understand the procedures and requirements for the completion of electrical installation certificates.
- Understand the procedures and requirements for the completion of related documentation.
Understanding the electrical principles associated with the design, building, installation and maintenance of electrical equipment and systemsReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit develops learners' understanding of fundamental electrical principles related to design, building, installation, and maintenance of electrical equipment and systems. It includes applying mathematical principles, understanding units of measurement, and basic mechanics concepts.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand mathematical principles which are appropriate to electrical installation, maintenance and design work.
- Understand standard units of measurement used in electrical installation, maintenance and design work.
- Understand basic mechanics and the relationship between force, work, energy and power.
- Understand the relationship between resistance, resistivity, voltage, current and power.
- Understand the fundamental principles which underpin the relationship between magnetism and electricity.
- Understand electrical supply and distribution systems.
- Understand how different electrical properties can affect electrical circuits, systems and equipment.
- Understand the operating principles and applications of DC machines and AC motors.
- Understand the operating principles of different electrical components.
- Understand the principles and applications of electrical lighting systems.
- Understand the principles and applications of electrical heating.
- Understand the types, applications and limitations of electronic components in electrotechnical systems and equipment.
Understanding the practices and procedures for overseeing and organising the work environment _Electrical Installation_Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll gain an understanding of the technical and functional information required for electrotechnical installations. The unit also covers procedures for supplying information, overseeing health and safety, and organising the work environment effectively.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the types of technical information that is available for the installation of electrotechnical systems and equipment.
- Understand the types of functional information that is available for the installation of electrotechnical systems and equipment.
- Understand the procedures for supplying technical information to relevant people.
- Understand the procedures for supplying functional information to relevant people.
- Understand the requirements for overseeing health and safety in the work environment.
- Understand the requirements for liaising with others when organising work activities.
- Understand the requirements for liaising with others when overseeing work activities.
- Understand the requirements for organising work programmes.
- Understand the requirements for overseeing work programmes.
- Understand the requirements for organising the provision of resources that are required for work activities.
- Understand the requirements for organising the storage of resources that are required for work activities.
Understanding the practices and procedures for the preparation and installation of wiring systems and electrotechnical equipment in buildings, structures and the environmentReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit provides knowledge of practices and procedures for preparing and installing wiring systems and electrotechnical equipment. You'll understand statutory and non-statutory requirements, site preparation, hazard identification, and safe isolation procedures.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the procedures, practices and statutory and non statutory regulatory requirements for preparing work sites for the installation of wiring systems and associated equipment.
- Understand the procedures for checking the work location prior to the commencement of work activities.
- Understand the practices, procedures and regulatory requirements for completing the safe isolation of electrical circuits and complete electrical installations.
- Understand the types, applications and limitations of wiring systems and associated equipment.
- Understand the procedures for selecting and using, tools, equipment and fixings for the installation of wiring systems, associated equipment and enclosures.
- Understand the practices and procedures for installing wiring systems, associated equipment and enclosures.
- Know the regulatory requirements which apply to the installation of wiring systems, associated equipment and enclosures.
Understanding the principles of planning and selection for the installation of electrotechnical equipment and systems in buildings, structures and the environmentReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll gain a comprehensive understanding of planning and selection principles for electrotechnical equipment and systems in buildings and the environment. The unit covers consumer supply systems, earthing arrangements, cable selection, and circuit protection devices.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the characteristics and applications of consumer supply systems.
- Understand the principles of internal and external earthing arrangements for electrical installations for buildings, structures and the environment.
- Understand the principles for selecting cables and circuit protection devices.
- Understand the principles and procedures for selecting wiring systems, equipment and enclosures.
Understanding the principles, practices and legislation for diagnosing and correcting electrical faults in electrotechnical systems and equipment in buildings, structures and the environmentReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
You'll understand principles, regulatory requirements, and procedures for diagnosing and correcting electrical faults in electrotechnical systems and equipment. The unit covers safe isolation, reporting, recording, and compliance with relevant legislation.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of safe isolation of electrical circuits and complete electrical installations.
- Understand the regulatory requirements for safe isolation of electrical circuits and complete electrical installations.
- Understand the procedures for completing the safe isolation of electrical circuits and complete electrical installations.
- Understand how to complete the reporting of electrical fault diagnosis and correction work.
- Understand how to complete the recording of electrical fault diagnosis and correction work.
- Understand how to complete the preparatory work prior to electrical fault diagnosis.
- Understand how to complete the preparatory work prior to electrical fault correction work.
- Understand the procedures for diagnosing electrical faults in electrotechnical systems and equipment.
- Understand the techniques for diagnosing electrical faults in electrotechnical systems and equipment.
- Understand the procedures for correcting electrical faults in electrotechnical systems and equipment.
- Understand the techniques for correcting electrical faults in electrotechnical systems and equipment.
Understanding the principles, practices and legislation for the termination and connection of conductors, cables and cords in electrical systemsReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
This unit covers principles, regulatory requirements, and procedures for the safe termination and connection of conductors, cables, and cords in electrical systems. You'll develop skills in safe isolation and correct connection techniques.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles, regulatory requirements and procedures for completing the safe isolation of electrical circuits and complete electrical installations
- Understand the regulatory requirements and procedures for terminating and connecting conductors, cables and flexible cords in electrical wiring systems and equipment
- Understand the procedures and applications of different methods of terminating and connecting conductors, cables, and flexible cords in electrical wiring systems and equipment
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 3 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.
Applying Health and Safety legislation and working practices _Installing and Maintaining Electrotechnical Systems and Equipment_Applying environmental legislation, working practices and the principles of environmental technology systemsDiagnosing and correcting electrical faults in electrical systems and equipment in buildings, structures and the environmentELECTROTECHNICAL OCCUPATIONAL COMPETENCEInspecting, testing, commissioning and certifying electrotechnical systems and equipment in buildings, structures and the environmentOverseeing and organising the work environment _Electrical Installation_Planning, preparing and installing wiring systems and associated equipment in buildings, structures and the environmentTerminating and connecting conductors and cables in electrical systems
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
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.
EAL Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Installing Electrotechnical Systems and Equipment (Buildings, Structures and the Environment)
- Configure electricity networks to asset owner’s requirements
- Connect electrical components (Integrated Systems Engineering)
- Connecting and testing electrical systems and equipment in leisure vehicles
- Design and Determine the Positioning, Fitting and Fixing of Electrical Wiring Systems, Wiring, Enclosures, Accessories & Equipment In Dwellings
- Diagnose and rectify faults in environmental technology systems
- ECIICESE02 Terminate cabling and wiring systems
- Endorse the Positioning, Fixing and Fitting of Electrical Wiring Systems, Wiring Enclosures, Equipment and Accessories In Dwellings
- Identify and rectify faults in electrical systems and equipment
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.
Configure electricity networks to asset owner’s requirementsConnect electrical components (Integrated Systems Engineering)Connecting and testing electrical systems and equipment in leisure vehiclesDesign and Determine the Positioning, Fitting and Fixing of Electrical Wiring Systems, Wiring, Enclosures, Accessories & Equipment In DwellingsDiagnose and rectify faults in environmental technology systemsECIICESE02 Terminate cabling and wiring systemsEndorse the Positioning, Fixing and Fitting of Electrical Wiring Systems, Wiring Enclosures, Equipment and Accessories In DwellingsIdentify and rectify faults in electrical systems and equipmentIdentify systems, equipment and componentsImplement current legislation and regulation relevant to your roleImplement work on electricity network assetsInspect and test electrical installations at petrol filling stationsInspect and test electrical systems and equipmentInspect environmental technology systems, equipment and componentsInstall and connect electrical cables, conductors, wiring systems and equipmentInstall assemblies and enclosures for Solar PV and EESS systemsInstall electrical cabling and wiring systemsInstall enclosures for electrical cables, conductors and wiring systems+4 more
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.
One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Applied to your own work
This unit enables learners to apply Health and Safety legislation and safe working practices when installing and maintaining electrotechnical systems and equipment. Learners will identify hazards, assess risks, implement remedial actions, and ensure compliance with relevant legislation.
How the thinking builds
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for EAL Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Installing Electrotechnical Systems and Equipment (Buildings, Structures and the Environment)
18 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited.
- Applying Health and Safety legislation and working practices _Installing and Maintaining Electrotechnical Systems and Equipment_
- Applying environmental legislation, working practices and the principles of environmental technology systems
- Diagnosing and correcting electrical faults in electrical systems and equipment in buildings, structures and the environment
- ELECTROTECHNICAL OCCUPATIONAL COMPETENCE
- Inspecting, testing, commissioning and certifying electrotechnical systems and equipment in buildings, structures and the environment
- Overseeing and organising the work environment _Electrical Installation_
and 12 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
Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is
take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying
for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with
you, on your real work, is for.
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.