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Our Edexcel NVQ and competence-based qualifications are available in a comprehensive range of work sectors.
These are the units Pearson Education Ltd 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Assess, plan, and monitor project methods and progress in construction Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Assess and identify appropriate work methods for construction projects.
- Understand the factors to consider when assessing and identifying work methods.
- Develop project programming and resourcing plans to ensure efficient project execution.
- Understand the principles of project programming and resourcing.
- Monitor project progress against agreed programmes to identify and address any deviations.
- Understand how to monitor project progress against agreed programmes.
Develop and maintain working relationships and personal development in construction Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop relationships with people.
- Maintain relationships with people.
- Understand how to develop relationships with people.
- Understand how to maintain relationships with people.
- Optimise your own resources to meet objectives.
- Understand how to optimise your own resources to meet objectives.
- Undertake personal development in the occupational practice area.
- Understand how to undertake personal development in the occupational practice area.
Establish and maintain the dimensional control of construction works Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Apply dimensional control criteria to construction works, ensuring adherence to specified tolerances and standards.
- Understand the principles and methods of applying dimensional control criteria in construction projects.
- Maintain the dimensional accuracy of construction works throughout the project lifecycle, taking corrective action when necessary.
- Understand the techniques and equipment used to maintain dimensional accuracy, including monitoring and adjustment procedures.
Implement contract work in construction Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Control work activities to meet agreed contract quality standards.
- Understand the methods used to control work against agreed contract quality standards.
- Maintain contract compliance with all relevant statutory and contractual requirements.
- Understand how to maintain contract compliance with statutory and contractual requirements.
Integrate and control project design information in construction Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Implement project documentation systems in accordance with organisational procedures and project requirements.
- Understand the processes involved in implementing project documentation systems within a construction environment.
- Integrate and evaluate project design information to ensure accuracy and compliance with project specifications.
- Understand the methods used to integrate and evaluate project design information, including identifying and resolving discrepancies.
Monitor, maintain and improve supplies of materials in construction Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify requirements for suppliers of materials in construction, considering factors such as quality, cost, and delivery schedules.
- Monitor supplier performance against established requirements, tracking key metrics and addressing any issues that arise.
- Understand the processes for identifying and monitoring requirements for suppliers, including contract negotiation and performance management.
- Maintain and record supplies of materials in construction, ensuring accurate inventory management and traceability.
- Understand the methods for maintaining and recording supplies of materials, including stock control systems and documentation procedures.
- Contribute to improvements in supplier performance by providing feedback, identifying areas for development, and collaborating on solutions.
- Understand how to contribute to improvements in supplier performance, including performance reviews and collaborative problem-solving.
Operate health, safety and welfare systems in construction Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Operate health systems in the workplace.
- Operate safety systems in the workplace.
- Operate welfare systems in the workplace.
- Understand how to operate health systems in the workplace.
- Understand how to operate safety systems in the workplace.
- Understand how to operate welfare systems in the workplace.
- Identify hazards in the workplace.
- Assess risks in the workplace.
- Understand how to identify hazards in the workplace.
- Understand how to assess risks in the workplace.
Operate project information systems in construction Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Obtain feedback information from relevant sources regarding project information systems in construction.
- Evaluate feedback information to identify areas for improvement and inform decision-making processes.
- Understand the methods for obtaining and evaluating feedback information, including surveys, interviews, and performance data analysis.
Prepare and monitor costs and accounts in construction Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor contract quantities and costs to ensure adherence to budget and project specifications.
- Understand the methods used to monitor contract quantities and costs.
- Prepare interim valuations and final accounts for construction projects.
- Understand the processes involved in preparing interim valuations and final accounts.
- Identify and record all income and expenditure related to construction projects.
- Understand the methods used to identify and record income and expenditure.
- Prepare information for additional costs for reimbursement for loss and expense claims.
- Understand how to prepare information for additional costs for reimbursement for loss and expense.
Prepare and process invitations to tender in construction Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify potential tenderers for construction projects, considering their qualifications, experience, and capacity.
- Understand the criteria for identifying potential tenderers, including pre-qualification questionnaires and market research.
- Prepare and issue tender documents in accordance with relevant regulations and industry best practices.
- Understand the process for preparing and issuing tender documents, including specification writing and contract terms.
- Check tenders for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with tender requirements.
- Understand the methods for checking tenders, including evaluation criteria and risk assessment.
Prepare drawings and schedules in construction Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare construction drawings in accordance with industry standards and project requirements.
- Prepare associated information to accompany construction drawings, ensuring clarity and accuracy.
- Understand the processes involved in preparing construction drawings and associated information.
- Prepare schedules for construction projects, detailing timelines, resources, and milestones.
- Understand the methods used to prepare schedules for construction projects.
Prepare estimates, bids and tenders in construction Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate estimate enquiry documentation.
- Evaluate bid enquiry documentation.
- Evaluate tender enquiry documentation.
- Understand how to evaluate estimate enquiry documentation.
- Understand how to evaluate bid enquiry documentation.
- Understand how to evaluate tender enquiry documentation.
- Calculate quantities within a tender.
- Calculate resources within a tender.
- Calculate costs within a tender.
- Understand how to calculate quantities within a tender.
- Understand how to calculate resources within a tender.
- Understand how to calculate costs within a tender.
- Collate tender information.
- Present tender information.
- Understand how to collate tender information.
- Understand how to present tender information.
Prepare for and carry out physical testing in construction Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for physical testing activities in construction, ensuring all necessary resources and equipment are available.
- Understand the procedures for preparing for physical testing, including risk assessments and safety protocols.
- Carry out physical testing in construction according to established procedures and industry standards.
- Understand the methods for carrying out physical testing, including data collection and quality control measures.
- Present test results in a clear, concise, and accurate format, suitable for interpretation and analysis.
- Understand the principles of presenting test results, including data visualisation and statistical analysis.
Prepare for work operations in construction Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Collate tender information from various sources, ensuring completeness and accuracy.
- Present tender information in a clear, concise, and professional manner.
- Understand the processes involved in collating and presenting tender information.
- Prepare for site operations by gathering necessary resources, equipment, and documentation.
- Understand the preparatory steps required before commencing site operations.
- Implement work operations according to established plans and procedures.
- Control work operations to ensure efficiency, safety, and quality.
- Understand the methods used to implement and control work operations.
Prepare for, collect, analyse and present survey data in construction Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to carry out surveys, ensuring all necessary equipment, resources, and permissions are in place.
- Understand the planning and preparation stages involved in conducting surveys, including risk assessment and method selection.
- Carry out surveys accurately and efficiently, following established procedures and protocols.
- Understand the techniques and equipment used to carry out surveys, including data collection and quality control measures.
- Present survey data in a clear and understandable format, using appropriate charts, graphs, and tables.
- Understand the principles of data presentation and visualisation, including the selection of appropriate methods for different types of data.
Prepare programmes and schedules of work in construction Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Obtain the information needed to take critical decisions related to programmes and schedules of work in construction.
- Understand the sources of information required for decision-making, including project plans, progress reports, and stakeholder feedback.
- Confirm project requirements with relevant stakeholders, ensuring a shared understanding of objectives, scope, and constraints.
- Understand the methods for confirming project requirements, including meetings, documentation reviews, and sign-off procedures.
- Prepare a work schedule that outlines the tasks, timelines, and resources required to complete the project.
- Understand the principles of preparing a work schedule, including critical path analysis and resource allocation.
Prepare proposals and obtain feedback for the provision of products and services in construction Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare information for additional costs for reimbursement for loss and expense, ensuring accurate documentation and justification.
- Understand the procedures for preparing claims for additional costs, including the calculation of losses and expenses.
- Review and finalise proposals for the provision of products and services, ensuring they meet client requirements and are commercially viable.
- Understand the key elements of a successful proposal, including pricing, scope of work, and terms and conditions.
- Obtain and evaluate feedback information on proposals, using it to improve future submissions.
- Understand the methods for obtaining and analysing feedback, including surveys, interviews, and focus groups.
Recommend and monitor supplies of plant and equipment in construction Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify plant.
- Recommend plant.
- Identify equipment.
- Recommend equipment.
- Understand how to identify plant.
- Understand how to recommend plant.
- Understand how to identify equipment.
- Understand how to recommend equipment.
- Monitor the performance of plant supplied.
- Monitor the performance of equipment supplied.
- Understand how to monitor the performance of plant supplied.
- Understand how to monitor the performance of equipment supplied.
Record the condition of property in construction Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Confirm a condition survey process, ensuring it aligns with project requirements and industry best practice.
- Understand the steps involved in confirming a condition survey process, including planning and resource allocation.
- Inspect the condition of property, identifying and documenting any defects or areas of concern.
- Understand the methods and techniques used to inspect property conditions, including visual inspection and non-destructive testing.
- Prepare and present condition survey reports and records, communicating findings clearly and concisely.
- Understand the format and content requirements for condition survey reports and records, including the use of appropriate terminology and visual aids.
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
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Collect, analyse and prevent measured survey data
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Develop and maintain internal and external relationships
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Develop, negotiate and agree proposals to offer services and products
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Implement Contract Work in Construction
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Integrate and control project design information in construction
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Prepare Asbestos Survey Reports and Records
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Prepare and process invitations to tender in construction
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Prepare drawings and schedules in built environment design
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Prepare drawings and schedules in construction
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Prepare estimates, bids and tenders in construction
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Prepare for and carry out physical testing in construction
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Prepare for, collect, analyse and present survey data in construction
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Present schedules of work and prepare for the implementation of work programmes
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Record the condition of property in construction
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Review drawings to prepare specifications of security devices and door hardware
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Survey sites to prepare specifications for security devices and door hardware
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Unit 26: Prepare and Produce Quotations
The credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Pearson Education Ltd rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Assess, plan, and monitor project methods and progress in constructionDevelop and maintain working relationships and personal development in constructionEstablish and maintain the dimensional control of construction worksImplement contract work in constructionIntegrate and control project design information in constructionMonitor, maintain and improve supplies of materials in constructionOperate health, safety and welfare systems in constructionOperate project information systems in construction
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Coach · your practice partner Illustration - Rehearse the conversation Apply
“Prepare proposals and obtain feedback for the provision of products and services in construction” is a conversation before it is a document. You have it with Zavmo playing the other person, badly at first, then again once you know what you actually want to say.
- Pitch it Evaluate
“Prepare and process invitations to tender in construction” gets practised as a pitch. You make the case out loud, Zavmo asks the question the room would ask, and you make it again.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Assess, plan, and monitor project methods and progress in construction” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Prepare and monitor costs and accounts in construction” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Collect, analyse and prevent measured survey data
- Develop and maintain internal and external relationships
- Develop, negotiate and agree proposals to offer services and products
- Implement Contract Work in Construction
- Integrate and control project design information in construction
- Prepare Asbestos Survey Reports and Records
- Prepare and process invitations to tender in construction
- Prepare drawings and schedules in built environment design
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Assess, plan, and monitor project methods and progress in construction, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
This unit enables learners to assess and identify appropriate work methods, develop project programming and resourcing plans, and monitor progress against agreed programmes, ensuring efficient and effective project delivery.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for Pearson Edexcel Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Construction Contracting Operations
19 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Assess, plan, and monitor project methods and progress in construction
- Develop and maintain working relationships and personal development in construction
- Establish and maintain the dimensional control of construction works
- Implement contract work in construction
- Integrate and control project design information in construction
- Monitor, maintain and improve supplies of materials in construction
and 13 more in the full unit list below.
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