ProQual Awarding Body · RQF Level 1
ProQual Level 1 Award in Basic Construction Skills – Groundworks
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 1
- Total credits15
- Guided learning145 hours
- Units in this qualification9
Awarded by ProQual Awarding Body · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
The ProQual Level 1 Award in Basic Construction Skills – Groundworks provides an introduction to working in the construction industry, appropriate for individuals of any age interested in construction.
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.
Introducing concreting skillsReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Know the resources required to lay concrete
- Prepare ground to level
- Mix and lay concrete
- Clean up on completion
Introducing drainage skillsReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Know the resources required to lay drainage
- Prepare excavation to receive drainage
- Clean up on completion
Introducing kerblaying skillsReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Know the resources required to lay kerbs
- Prepare kerb races
- Lay kerbs
- Clean up on completion
Introducing levelling in constructionReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Know the resources required to transfer levels
- Check the accuracy of levelling equipment
- Transfer levels
Introduction to constructionReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Know what a construction site is
- Know different types of construction
- Know about different types of career opportunities available in construction
- Know about different types of organisations offering career opportunities in construction
- Understand how career choices can impact upon an individual’s lifestyle
- Understand how to progress in their chosen career with the construction industry
- Work responsibly with others
- Seek and respond to guidance when working as part of a team
- Know that an employer has responsibility for the occupational health of their employees
- Understand how technology has an impact in a construction work environment
- Maintain a record of their own training and development
Operating a forward tipping dumperReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to operate a forward tipping dumper
- Operate a forward tipping dumper
Operating a petrol driven cut off sawReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to operate a petrol driven cut off saw safely
- Operate a petrol driven cut off saw safely
Operating a ride on rollerReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to operate a ride on roller
- Operate a ride on roller
Site safety, roles and responsibilitiesReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Know the roles and responsibilities for working in the construction sector
- Know the importance of health and safety on construction sites
- Know potential risks and hazards on construction sites
- Know the emergency and accident procedures on construction sites
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 1 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
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Where this can lead
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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 introduces foundational skills for mixing and laying concrete.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for ProQual Level 1 Award in Basic Construction Skills – Groundworks
9 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ProQual Awarding Body.
- Introducing concreting skills
- Introducing drainage skills
- Introducing kerblaying skills
- Introducing levelling in construction
- Introduction to construction
- Operating a forward tipping dumper
and 3 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
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
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, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.