Awarding Body for the Built Environment · RQF Level 6
ABBE Level 6 Diploma in Building Surveying and Housing Management
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 6
- Total credits80
- Guided learning400 hours
- Units in this qualification8
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 Level 6 diploma is intended for building surveying and housing management professionals. It covers areas such as residential property law, maintenance and repair management, report preparation, and health and safety regulations. Successful candidates will develop the skills and knowledge required for effective practice in the building and construction sector.
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.
Conduct all aspects of work in an effective and professional mannerReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct all aspects relating to asset management in a professional manner, adhering to ethical and industry standards.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, professionals, customers and other stakeholders.
- Comply with organisational policies and relevant legal requirements at all times.
Law for residential property asset managersReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Know how law is made in the English legal system.
- Apply the general legal principles of contract and tort law to relevant scenarios.
- Understand the various options available for dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration.
- Understand how the law of property is applied in the context of residential property management.
- Understand the standard system for buying and selling property in England and Wales.
- Understand the...
Managing and maintaining residential property assetsReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the estate management function within residential property.
- Understand the role premises maintenance plays in the strategic objectives of the organisation.
- Understand the role building services maintenance plays in the strategic objectives of the organisation.
- Know how performance indicators are used to improve repairs services.
- Know how performance indicators are used to improve maintenance services.
- Understand how customer service standards for repairs services are determined.
- Understand how customer service standards for maintenance services are determined.
- Understand how customer satisfaction mechanisms can be used to improve performance in repairs.
- Understand how customer satisfaction mechanisms can be used to improve performance in maintenance.
- Understand how feedback mechanisms can be used to improve performance in repairs.
- Understand how feedback mechanisms can be used to improve performance in maintenance.
Organise and deliver the maintenance, repair or alteration of residential propertyReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the processes involved in procuring contracts for responsive repairs.
- Understand how to administer contracts for responsive repairs.
- Interpret information obtained from property inspections accurately.
- Investigate location factors that may impact on maintenance and repair of residential property.
- Evaluate environmental factors that may impact on maintenance and repair of residential property.
- Investigate legal factors that may impact on maintenance and repair of residential property.
- Evaluate regulatory factors that may impact on maintenance and repair of residential property.
- Evaluate quality factors that may impact on maintenance and repair of residential property.
- Evaluate financial factors that may impact on maintenance and repair of residential property.
- Procure contracts for building alterations and improvements effectively.
- Administer contracts for building alterations and improvements effectively.
- Understand the requirements of the Party Wall etc. Act 1996.
Prepare for and undertake professional property inspections for housing managementReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Agree instructions to carry out a property inspection with potential clients or service providers.
- Confirm instructions to carry out a property inspection with potential clients or service providers.
- Investigate relevant matters relating to the property that may impact on the inspection.
- Investigate relevant matters relating to the property that may impact on the outcomes of the inspection.
- Carry out inspections of the premises and facilities in a professional manner.
- Make complete records of findings from property inspections.
- Make comprehensive records of findings from property inspections.
- Identify situations when repair is necessary following a property inspection.
- Identify circumstances when repair is necessary following a property inspection.
- Identify situations when improvement is necessary following a property inspection.
- Identify circumstances when improvement is necessary following a property inspection.
Prepare reports and specification informationReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Produce reports that meet relevant standards and guidance.
- Use prescribed technology effectively in the preparation of reports and specification information.
- Present reports in line with organisation format and procedures.
- Present reports in line with standard format and procedures.
- Present reports in line with any legislative requirements that may apply.
- Present reports in line with any relevant standards that may apply.
- Prepare schedules of work to be undertaken in order to bring property up to the required standards.
Understand the health and safety and environmental facilities management procedures in housing managementReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own responsibilities for health and safety in the workplace.
- Understand the health requirements as they apply to residential property management.
- Understand the safety requirements as they apply to residential property management.
- Understand the security requirements as they apply to residential property management.
- Implement systems to ensure health standards are met when delivering facilities management services in housing.
- Implement systems to ensure safety standards are met when delivering facilities management services in housing.
- Implement systems to ensure environmental standards are met when delivering facilities management services in housing.
Understanding sustainability and social responsibility issues in housing managementReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the core principles of sustainability, encompassing both economic and societal dimensions.
- Understand the concept of corporate social responsibility and its importance in housing management.
- Understand the environmental impact of your organisation's activities within the housing sector.
- Understand the resource and environmental issues that specifically affect your organisation.
- Understand how to effectively manage these resource and environmental issues within your organisation.
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.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 6 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.
- Contribute to the management of finances for properties
- Develop and implement property management plans
- Ensure that block management services are properly implemented
- Implement and monitor health and safety procedures for managed properties
- Manage and undertake investigations of disputes and breaches of agreements
- Manage health and safety in managed properties
- Manage service providers for residential blocks
- Prepare Asbestos Survey Reports and Records
Where this can lead
Property Services Director
Your journey starts here, taking ownership of a key asset. The skills you'll build are foundational, and the opportunities to grow, whether into leadership or deep specialism, are genuinely exciting. It won't always be easy, but it will certainly be rewarding.
See the whole journey →Showing 6 roles, drawn from 200 job records mapped to this qualification.
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 enables learners to conduct all aspects of asset management professionally and effectively. Learners will develop an understanding of ethical and industry standards, maintain effective working relationships, and ensure compliance with organisational and legal requirements.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for ABBE Level 6 Diploma in Building Surveying and Housing Management
8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Awarding Body for the Built Environment.
- Conduct all aspects of work in an effective and professional manner
- Law for residential property asset managers
- Managing and maintaining residential property assets
- Organise and deliver the maintenance, repair or alteration of residential property
- Prepare for and undertake professional property inspections for housing management
- Prepare reports and specification information
and 2 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
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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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