City and Guilds of London Institute · RQF Level 3
City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Gas Network Construction Operations (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits73
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification28
Awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute · on the Ofqual register
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units City and Guilds of London Institute 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.
Advise and inform others about network construction operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Advise and inform others
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of advising and informing others
Agree a course of action to deal with gas network construction related issuesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Agree courses of action to deal with gas network construction related issues.
- Understand how to agree courses of action with customers.
Analyse information to support decision making for network construction operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse information to support decision making
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how to analyse information to support decision making
Carry out operational planning for gas network construction operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Know opportunities to use techniques which maintain security of supply.
- Carry out for operational activities for gas network construction.
- Understand operational planning for network construction operations.
Carry out risk assessments for gas network construction operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Identify network activities and related risks.
- Assess the level of risk for specified activities.
- Understand risk assessments for gas network construction operations.
Commission gas networksReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Commission networks.
- Understand the implications and importance of decisions when commissioning networks.
Contribute to controlling costs against agreed budgetsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to controlling costs against agreed budgets
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of controlling costs against agreed budgets
Control gas network activities against quality standards and systemsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Control network activities against quality standards and systems
- Understand the controlling of network activities against quality standards and systems
Decommissioning and abandonment of mains and services 63mm and aboveReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct specified testing of gas networks associated with decommissioning
- Interpret technical information for decommissioning
- Select components and resources for decommissioning
- Decommission the system
- Use and communicate data and information
- Resolve problems that arise from technical information and decommissioning work
- Know health and safety guidance and legislation in utilities network construction operations
- Understand how to decommission gas engineering products or assets
Develop productive working relationships with colleagues in the energy and utilities sectorReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Develop productive working relationships with colleagues in the energy and utilities sector
- Use general knowledge and understanding to develop productive working relationships with colleagues in the energy and utilities sector
- Know and understand how to develop productive working relationships in the energy and utilities sector using sector specific knowledge
- Know and understand how to develop productive working relationships in the energy and utilities sector using context specific knowledge
Ensure your own actions reduce risks to health and safety during network construction operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the hazards and evaluate the risks to the network activity
- Reduce the risks to health and safety within the network activity
- Understand how to reduce the risks to health and safety within the network activity
Establish and maintain professional relationships in network construction operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Establish and maintain professional relationships
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of establishing and maintaining professional relationships
Inform customers about gas network construction related issuesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Inform customers about gas network construction related issues
- Understand how to inform customers about gas network construction related issues
Install gas engineering products or assets above 180mm up to and including 355mmReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret technical information for installing components of the system.
- Select components and resources for installation of the system.
- Install components of the system.
- Use and communicate data and information.
- Resolve problems that arise from technical information and installation work.
- Know health and safety guidance and legislation in utilities network construction operations.
- Understand how to install gas engineering products or assets above 180mm up to and including 355mm.
Install gas engineering products or assets above 355mmReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret technical information for installing components of the system
- Select components and resources for installation of the system.
- Install components of the system.
- Use and communicate data and information.
- Resolve problems that arise from technical information and installation work.
- Know health and safety guidance and legislation in utilities network construction operations.
- Understand how to install gas engineering products or assets above 355mm.
- Understand isolation and connection methods.
Locate and avoid supply apparatus and sub-structuresReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Identify, mark and confirm location of supply apparatus and sub-structures
- Maintain the safety and integrity of supply apparatus and sub-structures
- Understand the importance of maintaining the safety and integrity of supply apparatus and sub-structures
Monitor excavation in the highwayReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor excavation work in the highway
- Monitor action taken to avoid damage to underground apparatus during excavation
- Monitor selection, disposal and storage for re-use of excavated materials
- Monitor site safety
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of monitoring excavation in the highway
Monitor signing, lighting and guardingReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor a work site survey
- Monitor site safety
- Monitor action taken to protect pedestrians, vehicular traffic and site personnel
- Monitor provision of portable traffic signals
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of monitoring signing, lighting and guarding
Monitor the installation and construction process for network construction operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor the installation and construction process for network construction operations
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of monitoring the installation and construction process
Obtain information for decision making for network construction operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Obtain information for decision making
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of obtaining information for decision making
Operate safely in emergency situations within the gas intermediate pressure rangeReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key documents that apply to emergency situations when working in the gas intermediate pressure range.
- Evaluate hazards and risks that apply to emergency situations in the gas intermediate pressure range sector.
- Evaluate environmental hazards and environmental risks that apply to emergency situations in the gas intermediate pressure range sector.
- Know the importance of using the correct personal protective equipment and safety equipment when working in emergency situations in the gas intermediate pressure range sector.
- Set up a safety exclusion z
Operate within the gas intermediate pressure rangeReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key documents that apply to working in the gas intermediate pressure range.
- Comply with key legislation, organisational policies and procedures that apply to work instructions in the gas intermediate pressure range.
- Evaluate hazards and risks associated with the gas intermediate pressure range.
- Know the correct personal protective equipment (PPE) used within the gas intermediate pressure range.
- Identify and install pressure reduction equipment within the gas intermediate pressure range on services up to and including 63 mm or 2” diametre.
- Under
Protect the environment during gas network construction activitiesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the risks to the environment arising as a result of network activities
- Minimise risks to the environment arising as a result of network activities
- Understand how to minimise risks to the environment from network activities
Record and store information for network construction operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Record and store information
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of recording and storing information
Supervise safe operations in emergency situations within the gas intermediate pressure rangeReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key documents that apply to working in the gas intermediate pressure range sector
- Comply with key legislation, organisational policies and procedures that apply to work in emergency situations in the gas intermediate pressure range sector
- Evaluate hazards and risks that apply to emergency situations in the gas intermediate pressure range sector.
- Evaluate environmental hazards and environmental risks that apply to emergency situations in the gas intermediate pressure range sector.
- Know the importance of using the correct personal protective equipm
Supervise safe operations within the gas intermediate pressure rangeReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret key documents that apply to working in the gas intermediate pressure range sector.
- Comply with key legislation, organisational policies and procedures that apply to work instructions in the gas intermediate pressure range sector.
- Evaluate hazards and risks associated with the gas intermediate pressure range sector.
- Support operatives in the preparation of site specific risk assessments for the gas intermediate pressure range sector.
- Evaluate environmental hazards and environmental risks associated with the gas intermediate pr
Transfer control of networksReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Transfer control of networks
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of transferring control of networks
Understand how to manage contracts and contractors in the workplaceReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how contracts are managed in the workplace
- Understand how contractors can be managed in the workplace
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Where these credits take you
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- Agree a course of action to deal with network construction (water) related issues
- Apply professional ethics and values in the utility engineering work role
- Assist in locating and avoiding supply apparatus and sub-structures
- Commission and Decommission Gas Networks
- Commission assets on the electricity network
- Commission assets on the utility network
- Commission new and existing gas systems, installations and components in industrial properties
- Commission water networks
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
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Gas Network Construction Operations (QCF)
28 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute.
- Advise and inform others about network construction operations
- Agree a course of action to deal with gas network construction related issues
- Analyse information to support decision making for network construction operations
- Carry out operational planning for gas network construction operations
- Carry out risk assessments for gas network construction operations
- Commission gas networks
and 22 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
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- 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.
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- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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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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