Skills and Education Group Awards · RQF Level 1
ABC Level 1 Certificate In Access to Building Services Engineering (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 1
- Total credits34
- Guided learning62 hours
- Units in this qualification8
Awarded by Skills and Education Group Awards · on the Ofqual register
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See how this course maps onto your role
Ten quick questions, one per Future Fluency, asked against this qualification rather than a generic one.
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Skills and Education Group Awards 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.
Introduction to Building Services EngineeringReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Know the impact of building services engineering on people’s lives and the built environment
- Know about the different job opportunities and the career pathways within the building services engineering sector
- Know about a range of building services engineering systems
- Know about the key legislation and codes of practice within the building services engineering sector
Understand and demonstrate fundamental electrical installation OperationsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Follow health and safety procedures to carry out basic electrical practical applications
- Know the types of hand tools used to carry out basic electrical tasks safely
- Use hand-tools to carry out basic electrical tasks safely
- Know the types of basic electrical materials and components
- Select materials and components for basic electrical practical applications
- Carry out basic electrical practical applications
- Carry out basic electrical practical applications
Understand and demonstrate fundamental heating & ventilating operationsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Follow health and safety methods to carry out basic H & V practical applications
- Know the types of hand tools used to carry out basic H & V tasks safely
- Use hand-tools to carry out basic H & V tasks safely
- Know the types of basic H & V materials and components
- Select materials and components for basic H & V practical applications
- Carry out basic H & V practical applications
- Carry out basic H & V practical applications
Understand and demonstrate fundamental plumbing operationsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Follow health and safety procedures to carry out basic plumbing practical applications
- Know the types of hand tools used to carry out basic plumbing tasks safely
- Use hand-tools to carry out basic plumbing tasks safely
- Know the types of basic plumbing materials and components
- Select materials and components for basic plumbing practical applications
- Carry out basic plumbing practical applications
- Carry out basic plumbing practical applications
Understand and demonstrate fundamental refrigeration & air conditioning operationsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Follow health and safety procedures to carry out basic RAC practical applications
- Know the types of hand tools used to carry out basic RAC tasks safely
- Use hand-tools to carry out basic RAC tasks safely
- Know the types of basic RAC materials and components
- Select materials and components for basic RAC practical applications
- Carry out basic RAC practical applications
- Carry out basic RAC practical applications
Understand and demonstrate fundamental safe working practices in building services engineeringReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Know the health and safety legislation that applies to the building services engineering industry
- Recognise and respond to hazardous situations while working in the building services engineering industry
- Recognise and respond to the dangers presented by asbestos in the workplace
- Know the safe personal protection measures while working in the building services engineering industry
- Apply manual handling techniques
- Respond to accidents that occur while working in the building services engineering industry
- Know the procedures for electrical safe
Understand fundamental environmental protection measures within Building Services EngineeringReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Know the applications of energy sources used in the building services engineering industry
- Know the methods of reducing waste and conserving energy while working in the building services engineering industry
- Safely dispose of materials used in the building services engineering industry
- Know the methods of conserving and reducing wastage of water within the building services engineering industry
Understand fundamental scientific principles within building services engineeringReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Know the standard units of measurement used in the building services engineering industry
- Know the properties of materials used in the building services engineering industries
- Know the basic principles for energy, heat and power in the building services engineering industry
- Know the principles of force and pressure and their application in the building services engineering industries
- Know simple mechanical principles and their application in the building services engineering industries
- Know the principles of electricity as they relate to the building services engineering industries
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 1 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.
Where this can lead
Building Services Assistant
Your journey in building services can take many exciting turns. We're here to support your development and help you navigate these pathways, whether you want to lead teams, become a technical guru, or shape the future of our physical spaces.
See the whole journey →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 ABC Level 1 Certificate In Access to Building Services Engineering (QCF)
8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Skills and Education Group Awards.
- Introduction to Building Services Engineering
- Understand and demonstrate fundamental electrical installation Operations
- Understand and demonstrate fundamental heating & ventilating operations
- Understand and demonstrate fundamental plumbing operations
- Understand and demonstrate fundamental refrigeration & air conditioning operations
- Understand and demonstrate fundamental safe working practices in building services engineering
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.