Awarding Body for the Built Environment · RQF Level 3
ABBE Level 3 Diploma in Domestic Green Deal Advice
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits47
- Guided learning230 hours
- Units in this qualification9
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
This Level 3 Diploma is an occupational qualification in Domestic Green Deal Advice. It enables learners to conduct energy assessments, produce Energy Performance Certificates, and undertake energy inspections. Furthermore, it includes providing information to customers and identifying properties for sampling.
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.
Conduct energy assessments in a safe, effective and professional mannerReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the Health and Safety requirements when undertaking energy assessments
- Understand the legislation, codes of conduct and compliance requirements in relation to energy assessment
- Understand the legislation, codes of conduct and compliance requirements in relation to energy assessment
- Comply with organisational and legal requirements at all times
- Maintain health, safety and security at work
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, professionals, clients and others
- Conduct energy assessments in a professional manner
Explain the Green Deal Advice Report to the domestic customerReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different components of a domestic Green Deal Advice Report and their significance for domestic customers.
- Explain the components of a Green Deal Advice Report clearly and accurately to domestic customers, including their implications and potential benefits.
- Prepare and present a Green Deal Advice Report to a domestic customer in a professional, impartial, and easily understandable manner.
Identify representative properties for sampling and multiple certificationReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to identify representative properties for inspection in appropriate circumstances, considering factors such as property type, age, and condition.
- Identify properties that are representative for inspection, ensuring that they accurately reflect the characteristics of the wider property portfolio.
Prepare and issue domestic Green Deal Advice ReportsReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process of inputting data required for the preparation of domestic Green Deal Advice Reports.
- Understand how to assess energy efficiency measures for inclusion in domestic Green Deal Advice Reports.
- Understand the procedures for lodging and issuing domestic Green Deal Advice Reports.
- Prepare accurate and comprehensive domestic Green Deal Advice Reports, based on collected data and assessments.
- Lodge and issue domestic Green Deal Advice Reports in accordance with relevant regulations and guidelines.
Prepare for Energy Assessments of Domestic propertyReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legislation and regulations relating to energy assessments and Energy Performance Certificates
- Understand how to agree and confirm instructions to undertake energy assessments
- Understand how to investigate relevant matters relating to the property
- Agree and confirm instructions to undertake energy assessments
- Investigate relevant matters relating to the property
Produce and explain Energy Performance Certificates relating to Domestic PropertyReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning the Energy Performance Certification process
- Understand the principles and operation of the approved software used to generate recommendations for improved energy performance of a property
- Understand the process for issuing Energy performance Certificates and explaining their contents
- Generate Energy Performance Certificates using approved software
- Produce an Energy Performance Certificate
- Issue and explain the Energy Performance Certificate
- Explain to customers how the Energy Performance Certificate may be used to improve the energy efficiency of domestic property
Provide information to customers on the principles, financing and operation of the Green DealReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the components of the Green Deal, including its objectives, eligibility criteria, and available measures.
- Understand how to provide high quality, independent and impartial advice to customers on the Green Deal, ensuring that they are fully informed about their options.
- Provide customers with information on the Green Deal to meet their needs, tailoring the information to their specific circumstances and requirements.
Undertake Energy InspectionsReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the information that is needed to produce the data to generate an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) of a domestic property
- Understand the range of factors that affect the energy performance of a property
- Understand how to collate and maintain records of inspection findings
- Inspect property to determine energy performance
- Collate relevant information to assess the energy level of the property
- Maintain records of inspection findings
Undertake occupancy assessments and give adviceReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct a thorough and effective occupancy assessment to identify energy-saving opportunities.
- Understand various methods for reducing energy consumption in domestic properties and achieving affordable warmth for occupants.
- Understand the requirements for maintaining accurate and comprehensive written records of inspection findings and recommendations.
- Conduct a detailed occupancy assessment, gathering relevant information about the property and its occupants.
- Advise customers on practical and cost-effective methods for reducing energy consumption and achieving affordable warmth in their homes.
- Maintain clear, accurate, and up-to-date written records of inspection findings, recommendations, and customer interactions.
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
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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.
- Conduct Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP) Assessments to determine the energy performance of new dwellings
- Determine Operational Ratings and Issue Display Energy Certificates for Non-Dwellings
- Explain the Green Deal (or equivalent programme) Advice Report to the domestic customer
- Explain the Green Deal (or equivalent programme) Advice report to non-domestic customers
- Identify representative properties for sampling and multiple certification for assessing energy performance
- Monitor the implementation of energy advice
- Prepare Zero Carbon Home Certificates
- Prepare and issue Domestic Green Deal (or equivalent programme) Advice Reports
Where this can lead
Lead Energy Lawyer
This Lead Energy Lawyer role is a pivotal point in your career. It's where you transition from being an expert practitioner to a strategic leader and architect of legal solutions. The path ahead is rich with opportunities to shape the future of energy, both within our organisation and across the wider industry.
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
Learners will understand health and safety requirements, legislation, codes of conduct, and compliance related to energy assessments, enabling them to conduct assessments safely, effectively, and professionally.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for ABBE Level 3 Diploma in Domestic Green Deal Advice
9 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Awarding Body for the Built Environment.
- Conduct energy assessments in a safe, effective and professional manner
- Explain the Green Deal Advice Report to the domestic customer
- Identify representative properties for sampling and multiple certification
- Prepare and issue domestic Green Deal Advice Reports
- Prepare for Energy Assessments of Domestic property
- Produce and explain Energy Performance Certificates relating to Domestic Property
and 3 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.