Awarding Body for the Built Environment · RQF Level 4
ABBE Level 4 Diploma in Non 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 4
- Total credits57
- Guided learning260 hours
- Units in this qualification12
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 qualification provides the underpinning knowledge and competency required for someone to work as a Green Deal Advisor and Assessor for non-domestic properties, enabling the issuance of Energy Performance Certificates (EPC) and confirming occupational competence in energy assessment.
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.
Carry out Building Regulations Compliance checks of as-designed and as-built new-build non-dwellings using the Simplified Building Energy Model (SBEM)Real unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirement for new Buildings other than Dwellings to be compliant with the energy efficiency requirements of EU and national legislation
Carry out non-domestic energy inspections to determine an Operational Profile and give adviceReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process of conducting an operational profile
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 nature of professional conduct required when conducting energy assessments
Explain the Green Deal Advice Report to the non-domestic customerReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process of explaining the Green Deal Advice Report to non-domestic customers
Prepare and issue non-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 for Non-domestic Green Deal Advice Reports
Prepare for energy assessments of non-dwellings to fulfil regulatory requirements for asset ratingsReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the regulations and requirements needed to undertake energy assessments
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
Report on the energy assessment of new and existing non-dwellings using Dynamic Simulation Model DSMReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to produce Recommendations Reports for non-dwellings using DSM
Report on the energy assessment of new and existing non-dwellings using Simplified Building Energy Model SBEMReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to produce Recommendations Reports for non-dwellings using SBEM
Undertake energy assessments of existing Level 3 non-dwellings using the Simplified Building Energy Model SBEMReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the equipment and resources needed to undertake energy inspections
Undertake energy assessments of existing Level 4 non-dwellings using the Simplified Building Energy Model SBEMReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the equipment and resources needed to undertake energy inspections
Undertake energy assessments of existing Level 5 non-dwellings requiring the use of Dynamic Simulation Models DSMsReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the equipment and resources needed to undertake energy inspections
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 4 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.
- Assess the energy performance of new-build non-dwellings using Dynamic Simulation Models (DSMs)
- Assess the energy performance of new-build non-dwellings using SBEM
- Determine Operational Ratings and Issue Display Energy Certificates for Non-Dwellings
- Establish the asset ratings of commercial buildings
- Establish the operational ratings for the energy performance of buildings
- Prepare and issue Domestic Green Deal (or equivalent programme) Advice Reports
- Prepare and issue non-domestic Green Deal (or equivalent programme) Advice Reports
- Prepare for energy assessments of domestic property
Where this can lead
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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 will develop the knowledge and skills needed to carry out compliance checks of, and issue EPCs for, all new-build non-dwellings using SBEM, make recommendations for cost-effective improvements and issue Energy Performance Certificates in accordance with regulatory requirements.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for ABBE Level 4 Diploma in Non Domestic Green Deal Advice
12 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Awarding Body for the Built Environment.
- Carry out Building Regulations Compliance checks of as-designed and as-built new-build non-dwellings using the Simplified Building Energy Model (SBEM)
- Carry out non-domestic energy inspections to determine an Operational Profile and give advice
- Conduct energy assessments in a safe, effective and professional manner
- Explain the Green Deal Advice Report to the non-domestic customer
- Prepare and issue non-domestic Green Deal Advice Reports
- Prepare for energy assessments of non-dwellings to fulfil regulatory requirements for asset ratings
and 6 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.