City and Guilds of London Institute · RQF Level 2
City & Guilds Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Planned and Reactive Maintenance on Heating and Ventilating Equipment
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits86
- Guided learning733 hours
- Units in this qualification12
Awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
The Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Planned and Reactive Maintenance on Heating and Ventilating Equipment (6188-22) is designed for candidates seeking to work in the maintenance of heating and ventilation systems, focusing on both planned and reactive tasks.
These are the units City and Guilds of London Institute 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.
Apply safe working practices in building services engineering working environmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate practical safe working practices at the work site.
Apply safe working practices in building services engineering working environmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate personal health and safety precautions in the workplace
- Prepare and use access equipment in the workplace
- Check that the work area is safe in order to carry out work
- Liaise with those responsible for health and safety in the workplace
Service and maintain industrial and commercial heating and ventilation systemsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out servicing tasks on HVAC systems.
Service and maintain industrial and commercial heating and ventilation systemsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Complete preparation work for industrial and commercial heating and ventilation systems service and maintenance activities
- Service industrial and commercial heating and ventilation systems, equipment and components
- Complete soundness tests on industrial and commercial heating and ventilation systems
- Decommission industrial and commercial heating and ventilation systems
Understand and carry out safe working practices in building services engineeringReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate knowledge of safe working practices in BSE.
Understand and carry out site preparation and fabrication techniques for industrial and commercial systemsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare sites for installation of HVAC systems.
Understand how to apply environment protection measures within BSEReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of environmental protection measures.
Understand how to apply scientific principles within MESReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Apply scientific principles in practical applications.
Understand how to communicate with others within BSEReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Effectively communicate with peers and supervisors.
Understand industrial and commercial air system maintenance techniquesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Implement maintenance practices for air systems in commercial settings.
Understand industrial and commercial hot and cold water system maintenance techniquesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Perform maintenance on hot and cold water systems.
Understand industrial and commercial hot water heating system maintenance techniquesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain hot water heating systems appropriate to industrial needs.
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 2 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
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.
- Clean Industrial and Commercial Ventilation Systems
- Decommission heating & ventilating systems, equipment and components
- Decommission industrial and commercial heating and ventilating systems
- Inspect and Pre-Commission Industrial and Commercial Heating and Ventilating Systems
- Service and maintain industrial and commercial heating and ventilating systems
Where this can lead
Senior Building Services Assistant
Your journey in Building Services can be incredibly rewarding, offering a clear path for growth whether you want to lead teams or become an unparalleled technical expert. We're committed to helping you build a career that truly excites you, supporting your development every step of the way.
See the whole journey →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
This unit reaffirms the importance of safety practices in specific contexts.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for City & Guilds Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Planned and Reactive Maintenance on Heating and Ventilating Equipment
10 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute.
- Apply safe working practices in building services engineering working environment
- Service and maintain industrial and commercial heating and ventilation systems
- Understand and carry out safe working practices in building services engineering
- Understand and carry out site preparation and fabrication techniques for industrial and commercial systems
- Understand how to apply environment protection measures within BSE
- Understand how to apply scientific principles within MES
and 4 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.