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Awarding Body for the Built Environment · RQF Level 3

ABBE Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Building Control Technical Support

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  • LevelRQF Level 3
  • Total credits70
  • Guided learning190 hours
  • Units in this qualification18

Awarded by Awarding Body for the Built Environment · on the Ofqual register

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The ABBE Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Building Control Technical Support is an occupational qualification for individuals working in the building and construction sector. It allows candidates to develop the skills and knowledge required to provide technical support in building control, including surveying property and processing applications.

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.

Assess the energy performance of buildings in conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
It teaches you to agree and confirm instructions, obtain and process information, and assess the energy performance of buildings in conservation or building control. You'll understand communication requirements and assessment methodologies.

What you'll be able to do

  • Agree and confirm instructions to undertake energy assessments of buildings in conservation or building control
  • Understand the process of agreeing and confirming instructions to undertake energy assessments of buildings in conservation or building control
  • Obtain and process information for the assessment of energy efficiency in buildings in conservation or building control
  • Understand how to obtain and process information for the assessment of energy efficiency in buildings in conservation or building control
Carry out an environmental survey in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
You'll be able to prepare for and conduct environmental surveys in planning, conservation, or building control. The unit covers risk assessment, resource allocation, survey methods, health and safety considerations, and accurate data collection.

What you'll be able to do

  • Prepare thoroughly for an environmental survey, including risk assessments, resource allocation, and method selection
  • Understand the preparatory steps required for conducting an environmental survey, including relevant health and safety considerations
  • Conduct environmental surveys competently, collecting and recording data accurately and consistently
  • Understand the methods used to conduct environmental surveys, including sampling techniques and data collection protocols
Carry out measured survey in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
It teaches you to carry out measured surveys in planning, conservation, or building control. You'll plan survey operations, check equipment, conduct site reconnaissance, and record data accurately while understanding relevant risk assessments and methodologies.

What you'll be able to do

  • Prepare effectively for measured survey operations, including planning, equipment checks, and site reconnaissance
  • Understand the preparatory steps required for conducting measured survey operations, including risk assessments and method selection
  • Conduct measured surveys accurately and efficiently, using appropriate instruments and techniques
  • Understand the principles and techniques of measured surveying, including data processing and quality control
Compile and present survey data in planning or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
It teaches you to compile, analyse, and present survey data effectively in planning or building control contexts. You'll use appropriate tools, verify data accuracy, and communicate findings clearly to inform decision-making.

What you'll be able to do

  • Compile survey data accurately and efficiently, using appropriate methods and tools
  • Understand the methods used to compile survey data, including their strengths and limitations
  • Analyse survey results to identify key trends and patterns relevant to planning or building control
  • Present survey results clearly and concisely, using appropriate formats such as tables, charts, and reports, to inform decision-making
Identify and monitor compliance of developments in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
It teaches you to identify and monitor compliance of authorised and unauthorised developments in planning, conservation, or building control. You'll monitor works against approved plans, identify deviations, and understand procedures for reporting non-compliance.

What you'll be able to do

  • Monitor compliance of authorised works in planning, conservation or building control
  • Explain how to monitor compliance of authorised works in planning, conservation or building control
  • Identify unauthorised developments in planning, conservation or building control
  • Monitor unauthorised developments in planning, conservation or building control
  • Explain how to identify unauthorised developments in planning, conservation or building control
  • Explain how to monitor unauthorised developments in planning, conservation or building control
Identify low carbon energy sources in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
You'll identify a range of low carbon energy sources relevant to planning, conservation, or building control. The unit covers characteristics, applications, and evaluation methods to assess the suitability of different energy sources in specific contexts.

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify low carbon energy sources in planning, conservation or building control contexts
  • Understand the methods used to identify low carbon energy sources in planning, conservation or building control contexts
Investigate and assess regulatory factors affecting potential developments in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
You'll investigate and assess regulatory factors affecting potential developments in planning, conservation, or building control. The unit covers identification of legislation, policies, constraints, and advising stakeholders accordingly.

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify relevant regulatory requirements and constraints affecting potential developments in planning, conservation, or building control
  • Understand the processes involved in identifying regulatory requirements and constraints, including relevant legislation, guidance, and consultation procedures
  • Report on potential developments, outlining their compliance with regulatory requirements and constraints
  • Advise stakeholders on potential developments, including the implications of regulatory factors and possible mitigation strategies
Monitor and record test data in conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
This unit covers the monitoring and recording of test data within conservation or building control contexts. You'll learn to identify anomalies, record data accurately, and store it securely while understanding the purpose and importance of adhering to established procedures.

What you'll be able to do

  • Monitor test data in conservation or building control
  • Record test data in conservation or building control
  • Explain the processes involved in monitoring test data in conservation or building control
  • Explain the processes involved in recording test data in conservation or building control
Monitor operating budgets in conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
This unit provides learners with skills to monitor operating budgets in conservation or building control. You'll track income and expenditure, identify variances, report performance, and understand budget monitoring principles and forecasting techniques.

What you'll be able to do

  • Monitor operating budgets effectively in conservation or building control, tracking income and expenditure against targets
  • Understand the principles and techniques of budget monitoring, including variance analysis and forecasting
Operate in a professional manner in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
This unit focuses on acting professionally and taking responsibility for personal development within planning and conservation processes.

What you'll be able to do

  • Work in an ethical manner
  • Understand how to work in an ethical manner
Operate technical information systems in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
This unit covers the preparation, storage, and retrieval of information, ensuring confidentiality and organisation.

What you'll be able to do

  • Operate information systems in planning, conservation and building control technical support
  • Understand how to operate information systems in planning, conservation and building control technical support
Prepare for and participate in meetings in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
You'll learn to prepare for and participate in meetings related to planning, conservation, or building control. The unit covers meeting structures, participant roles, communication, and effective contribution.

What you'll be able to do

  • Prepare for meetings.
  • Understand how to prepare for meetings.
  • Participate in meetings.
  • Understand how to participate in meetings.
Prepare graphical information in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
This unit equips learners with skills to produce accurate and clear graphical information for planning, conservation, or building control. You'll use appropriate software and techniques, ensure suitability for the intended audience, and store information securely.

What you'll be able to do

  • Produce graphical information in planning, conservation or building control
  • Understand the techniques used to produce graphical information in planning, conservation or building control
Process and consult on applications to reflect statutory and policy requirements in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
This unit provides learners with skills to process and consult on applications reflecting statutory and policy requirements in planning, conservation, or building control. You'll understand application handling, stakeholder consultation, and documentation.

What you'll be able to do

  • Process applications to reflect statutory and policy requirements in planning, conservation or building control
  • Consult on applications to reflect statutory and policy requirements in planning, conservation or building control
  • Explain the processes involved in handling applications to reflect statutory and policy requirements
  • Describe the consultation processes required when handling applications to reflect statutory and policy requirements
Process information relevant to breaches of regulation in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
You'll gain skills to gather, process, and progress information related to breaches of regulation in planning, conservation, or building control. The unit covers information gathering methods, legal and ethical considerations, and procedures for case resolution.

What you'll be able to do

  • Gather information relevant to a case of breaches of regulation in planning, conservation or building control
  • Understand the methods used to gather information relevant to a case of breaches of regulation in planning, conservation or building control
  • Progress the resolution of a case of breaches of regulation in planning, conservation or building control
  • Understand the procedures for progressing the resolution of a case of breaches of regulation in planning, conservation or building control
Provide technical support in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
This unit focuses on providing technical advisory support regarding applications and related processes.

What you'll be able to do

  • Respond to requests for information about proposals, processes, and requirements
  • Understand how to respond to requests for information about proposals, processes, and requirements
Survey and report on the condition of property in building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
It teaches you to inspect properties for compliance within building control, identify defects, and prepare detailed condition survey reports. You'll understand relevant legislation, regulations, and health and safety considerations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Inspect property for compliance.
  • Understand how to inspect property for compliance.
  • Prepare condition survey reports and records.
  • Understand how to prepare condition survey reports and records.
Work in a team in planning, conservation or building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
This unit emphasises the importance of good interpersonal relationships and effective communication within team dynamics.

What you'll be able to do

  • Maintain relationships with people who are affected by your work
  • Understand how to maintain relationships with people who are affected by your work

The honest bit

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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.

Assess the energy performance of buildings in conservation or building controlCarry out an environmental survey in planning, conservation or building controlCarry out measured survey in planning, conservation or building controlCompile and present survey data in planning or building controlIdentify and monitor compliance of developments in planning, conservation or building controlIdentify low carbon energy sources in planning, conservation or building controlInvestigate and assess regulatory factors affecting potential developments in planning, conservation or building controlMonitor and record test data in conservation or building control

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

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Where this connects

Where these credits take you

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ABBE Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Building Control Technical Support
  • Assess and advise on regulatory factors affecting potential developments
  • Contribute to assessing of the condition of property
  • Define, implement and manage information systems in planning, conservation and building control
  • Evaluate and process applications for registration
  • Monitor and record tests
  • Monitor compliance with statutory and policy requirements in planning, conservation and building control
  • Monitor hire and rental organisational budgets
  • N/A (Title not specified)
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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 and advise on regulatory factors affecting potential developmentsContribute to assessing of the condition of propertyDefine, implement and manage information systems in planning, conservation and building controlEvaluate and process applications for registrationMonitor and record testsMonitor compliance with statutory and policy requirements in planning, conservation and building controlMonitor hire and rental organisational budgetsN/A (Title not specified)Prepare Graphical Information in Conservation and Building ControlPromote low and zero carbon energy technologiesPromote low and zero carbon energy technologiesUse BIM to improve energy conservation in a built environment

How you’ll actually learn this

One-to-one, on your own real work

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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.
Assess the energy performance of buildings in conservation or building controlLevel 3

Applied to your own work

This unit enables learners to agree and confirm instructions, obtain and process information, and assess the energy performance of buildings in conservation or building control. Learners will understand communication requirements and assessment methodologies.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
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Built for ABBE Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Building Control Technical Support

18 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Awarding Body for the Built Environment.

  1. Assess the energy performance of buildings in conservation or building control
  2. Carry out an environmental survey in planning, conservation or building control
  3. Carry out measured survey in planning, conservation or building control
  4. Compile and present survey data in planning or building control
  5. Identify and monitor compliance of developments in planning, conservation or building control
  6. Identify low carbon energy sources in planning, conservation or building control

and 12 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

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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.

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