ProQual Awarding Body · RQF Level 4

ProQual Level 4 Diploma in Green Deal Non-Domestic Advice (QCF)

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 learning196.5 hours
  • Units in this qualification11

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

These are the units ProQual Awarding Body 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 non-domestic energy inspections to determine an Operational Profile and give adviceReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the process of conducting an operational profile
  • Understand the factors and measures for reducing energy consumption in non-domestic buildings
  • Understand the written records required for inspection findings
  • Conduct an operational profile assessment
  • Identify actions to reduce energy consumption in non-domestic buildings
  • Maintain written records of inspection findings
Conduct energy assessments in a safe, effective and professional mannerReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

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
Explain the Green Deal Advice Report to the Non-domestic customerReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the process of explaining the Green Deal Advice Report to non-domestic customers
  • Explain the components of the Green Deal Advice Report and their implications to the Non-domestic customer
  • Prepare and present a Green Deal Advice Report in a professional and impartial manner
Prepare and issue Non-domestic Green Deal Advice ReportsReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the process of inputting data for Non-domestic Green Deal Advice Reports
  • Understand how to assess energy efficiency measures for Non-domestic Green Deal Advice Reports
  • Understand how to lodge and issue Non-domestic Green Deal Advice Reports
  • Input data for prepare Non-domestic Green Deal Advice Reports
  • Assess energy efficiency measures for the non-domestic Green Deal Advice report
  • Prepare, lodge and issue Non-domestic Green Deal Advice Reports
Prepare for energy assessments of non-dwellings to fulfill regulatory requirements for Asset RatingsReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the regulations and requirements needed to undertake energy assessments
  • Understand how to agree and confirm instructions to undertake energy assessments
  • Understand how to investigate relevant matters relating to property and energy usage
  • Agree and confirm instructions to undertake energy assessments
  • Investigate relevant matters relating to energy usage within a property
Provide information to customers on the principles, financing and operation of the Green DealReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the components of the Green Deal
  • Understand how to provide high quality, independent and impartial advice to customers
  • Provide customers with information on Green Deal to meet their needs
Report on the energy assessment of new and existing non-dwellings using Dynamic Simulation Model DSMReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to produce Recommendations Reports for non-dwellings using DSM
  • Understand how to provide a clearly defined and robust hierarchy of energy efficiency measures for non-dwellings
  • Understand how to communicate the value of a Recommendations Report and how it can be used
  • Produce Recommendations Reports for non-dwellings using DSM
  • Provide a clearly defined and robust hierarchy of recommendations for reducing the energy use of non-dwellings
  • Communicate the value of a recommendations report and how it can be used
Report on the energy assessment of new and existing non-dwellings using Simplified Building Energy Model SBEMReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to produce Recommendations Reports for non-dwellings using SBEM
  • Understand how to provide a clearly defined and robust hierarchy of energy efficiency measures for non-dwellings
  • Understand how to communicate the value of a Recommendations Report and how it can be used
  • Produce Recommendations Reports for non-dwellings using SBEM
  • Provide a clearly defined and robust hierarchy of energy efficiency measures for non-dwellings
  • Communicate the value of a Recommendations Report and how it can be used
Undertake energy assessments of existing Level 3 non-dwellings using the Simplified Building Energy Model SBEMReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the equipment and resources needed to undertake energy inspections
  • Understand the implications of building characteristics affecting the energy performance of a property
  • Understand how to collate information from the on-site inspection and other sources to assess the energy performance of the property
  • Understand how to prepare and issue an Energy Performance Certificate which includes recommendations for cost-effective improvements and meets relevant regulations
  • Understand how to make and maintain complete, accurate and legible records of your work
  • Inspect a Level 3
Undertake energy assessments of existing Level 4 non-dwellings using the Simplified Building Energy Model SBEMReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the equipment and resources needed to undertake energy inspections
  • Understand the implications of building characteristics affecting the energy performance of a property
  • Understand how to collate information from the on-site inspection and other sources to assess the energy performance of the property
  • Understand how to prepare and issue an Energy Performance Certificate which includes recommendations for cost-effective improvements and meets relevant regulations
  • Understand how to make and maintain complete, accurate and legible records of your work
  • Inspect a Level 4
Undertake energy assessments of existing Level 5 non-dwellings requiring the use of Dynamic Simulation Models DSMsReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the equipment and resources needed to undertake energy inspections
  • Understand the implications of building characteristics affecting the energy performance of a property
  • Understand how to collate information from the on-site inspection and other sources to assess the energy performance of the property
  • Understand how to prepare and issue an Energy Performance Certificate which includes recommendations for cost-effective improvements and meets relevant regulations
  • Understand how to make and maintain complete, accurate and legible records of your work
  • Inspect a Level

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.

Carry out non-domestic energy inspections to determine an Operational Profile and give adviceConduct energy assessments in a safe, effective and professional mannerExplain the Green Deal Advice Report to the Non-domestic customerPrepare and issue Non-domestic Green Deal Advice ReportsPrepare for energy assessments of non-dwellings to fulfill regulatory requirements for Asset RatingsProvide information to customers on the principles, financing and operation of the Green DealReport on the energy assessment of new and existing non-dwellings using Dynamic Simulation Model DSMReport on the energy assessment of new and existing non-dwellings using Simplified Building Energy Model SBEM

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

Who’d teach you this

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Where this connects

Where these credits take you

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ProQual Level 4 Diploma in Green Deal Non-Domestic Advice (QCF)
  • 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
  • Establish the asset ratings of commercial buildings
  • Explain the Green Deal (or equivalent programme) Advice report to non-domestic customers
  • Prepare and explain Home Energy Audit Reports
  • 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 non-dwellings to fulfill regulatory requirements for Asset Ratings and Operational Ratings
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

Where this can lead

Energy Management Specialist

Your journey here starts with mastering the data, but it doesn't end there. We're committed to helping you grow, whether that's becoming a technical expert, a project leader, or eventually, a strategic leader shaping our company's energy future. The opportunities are genuinely there if you're willing to grab them.

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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.

Assess the energy performance of new-build non-dwellings using Dynamic Simulation Models (DSMs)Assess the energy performance of new-build non-dwellings using SBEMEstablish the asset ratings of commercial buildingsExplain the Green Deal (or equivalent programme) Advice report to non-domestic customersPrepare and explain Home Energy Audit ReportsPrepare and issue Domestic Green Deal (or equivalent programme) Advice ReportsPrepare and issue non-domestic Green Deal (or equivalent programme) Advice ReportsPrepare for energy assessments of non-dwellings to fulfill regulatory requirements for Asset Ratings and Operational RatingsPrepare for energy assessments to produce Operational Ratings, Display Energy Certificates and Advisory Reports for non-dwellingsPromote community action to reduce energy consumptionReport on the Energy Efficiency of Level 5 New and Existing Non-Dwellings using the Dynamic Simulation Models (DSM)Report on the energy assessment of new and existing non-dwellings using DSMReport on the energy efficiency of Level 3 and Level 4 non-dwellings using the Simplified Building Energy Model (SBEM)Undertake Energy Assessments of Existing Level 4 Non-Dwellings Using the Simplified Building Energy Model (SBEM)Undertake Energy Inspections of Existing Non-Dwellings Using the Simplified Building Energy Model (SBEM)Undertake Non-Domestic Inspections to Determine Operational ProfilesUndertake energy assessments of existing Level 3 non-dwellingsUndertake energy assessments of existing Level 3 non-dwellings using the Simplified Building Energy Model (SBEM)+4 more

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.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Carry out non-domestic energy inspections to determine an Operational Profile and give adviceLevel 4

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.
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Built for ProQual Level 4 Diploma in Green Deal Non-Domestic Advice (QCF)

11 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ProQual Awarding Body.

  1. Carry out non-domestic energy inspections to determine an Operational Profile and give advice
  2. Conduct energy assessments in a safe, effective and professional manner
  3. Explain the Green Deal Advice Report to the Non-domestic customer
  4. Prepare and issue Non-domestic Green Deal Advice Reports
  5. Prepare for energy assessments of non-dwellings to fulfill regulatory requirements for Asset Ratings
  6. Provide information to customers on the principles, financing and operation of the Green Deal

and 5 more in the full unit list below.

These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

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, free

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