Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited · RQF Level 3
EAL Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Heating & Ventilating – Ductwork Installation (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits39
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification8
Awarded by Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
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.
Install and pre-commission industrial and commercial ductwork systemsReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Complete preparation work for industrial and commercial rectangular, circular or flat oval ductwork systems
- Identify industrial and commercial rectangular, circular or flat oval ductwork systems, equipment and components
- Install industrial and commercial rectangular, circular or flat oval ductwork systems
- Complete soundness tests on industrial and commercial rectangular, circular or flat oval ductwork systems
- Complete commissioning of industrial and commercial rectangular, circular or flat oval ductwork systems
- Complete
Understand and apply industrial and commercial air handling unit installation and pre-commissioning techniquesReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the working principles and layouts of industrial and commercial air handling units
- Understand the legislative and organisational procedures related to all industrial and commercial air handling unit work activities
- Understand how to complete preparation work for industrial and commercial air handling unit installation activities
- Understand the procedures for identifying industrial and commercial air handling unit equipment and components
- Understand how to install industrial and commercial air handling units
- Understand procedures for the testing of industrial and co
Understand and apply industrial and commercial circular and flat oval ductwork installation and pre-commissioning techniquesReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the working principles and layouts of industrial and commercial circular or flat oval ductwork systems
- Understand the legislative and organisational procedures related to all industrial and commercial circular or flat oval ductwork systems work activities
- Understand how to complete preparation work for industrial and commercial circular or flat oval installation activities
- Understand the procedures for identifying industrial and commercial circular or flat oval ductwork systems, equipment and components
- Understand how to install industrial and commercial circular or fla
Understand and apply industrial and commercial fire rated ductwork installation and pre-commissioning techniquesReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the working principles and layouts of industrial and commercial fire rated ductwork systems
- Understand the legislative and organisational procedures related to all industrial and commercial fire rated ductwork systems work activities
- Understand how to complete preparation work for industrial and commercial fire rated ductwork installation activities
- Understand the procedures for identifying industrial and commercial fire rated ductwork equipment and components
- Understand how to install industrial and commercial fire rated ductwork systems
- Understand procedures fo
Understand and apply industrial and commercial local exhaust ventilation system installation and pre-commissioning techniquesReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the working principles and layouts of industrial and commercial local exhaust ventilation systems
- Understand the legislative and organisational procedures related to all industrial and commercial local exhaust ventilation work activities
- Understand how to complete preparation work for industrial and commercial local exhaust ventilation system installation activities
- Understand the procedures for identifying industrial and commercial local exhaust ventilation systems equipment and components
- Understand how to install industrial and commercial local exhaust ventilati
Understand and apply industrial and commercial plastic ductwork installation and pre-commissioning techniquesReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the working principles and layouts of industrial and commercial plastic ductwork systems
- Understand the legislative and organisational procedures related to all industrial and commercial plastic ductwork systems work activities
- Understand how to complete preparation work for industrial and commercial plastic ductwork installation activities
- Understand the procedures for identifying industrial and commercial plastic systems, equipment and components
- Understand how to install industrial and commercial plastic ductwork systems
- Understand procedures for the soundness testin
Understand and apply industrial and commercial rectangular ductwork installation and pre-commissioning techniquesReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the working principles and layouts of industrial and commercial rectangular ductwork systems
- Understand the legislative and organisational procedures related to all industrial and commercial rectangular ductwork systems work activities
- Understand how to complete preparation work for industrial and commercial rectangular ductwork installation activities
- Understand the procedures for identifying industrial and commercial rectangular ductwork systems, equipment and components
- Understand how to install industrial and commercial rectangular ductwork systems
- Understand
Understand how to organise resources within BSEReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the responsibilities of relevant people in the building services industry
- Oversee building services work
- Produce risk assessments and method statements for the building services industry
- Plan work programmes for work tasks in the building services industry
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.
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.
- Apply the design process to select Dampers for ventilation systems and smoke control applications
- Clean Industrial and Commercial Ventilation Systems
- Inspect and Commission Fire Dampers and Smoke Control Dampers
- Install and test industrial and commercial heating and ventilating ductwork systems
- Manage work activities and resources to meet BSE project requirements
- Prepare and produce quotations for mechanical fire protection systems
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 own work
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for EAL Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Heating & Ventilating – Ductwork Installation (QCF)
8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited.
- Install and pre-commission industrial and commercial ductwork systems
- Understand and apply industrial and commercial air handling unit installation and pre-commissioning techniques
- Understand and apply industrial and commercial circular and flat oval ductwork installation and pre-commissioning techniques
- Understand and apply industrial and commercial fire rated ductwork installation and pre-commissioning techniques
- Understand and apply industrial and commercial local exhaust ventilation system installation and pre-commissioning techniques
- Understand and apply industrial and commercial plastic ductwork installation and pre-commissioning techniques
and 2 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.