Skills and Education Group Awards · RQF Level 4
SEG Awards Level 4 Diploma in Quantity Surveying
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 4
- Total credits120
- Guided learning360 hours
- Units in this qualification6
Awarded by Skills and Education Group Awards · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
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These are the units Skills and Education Group Awards 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.
Construction EconomicsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Know the national and international political and socio-economic environment in which construction takes place
- Understand and apply economic theories to the construction markets with particular reference to supply, demand, value, price, and cost
- Understand the different types of business organisations found in the construction industry and their sources of finance and analyse financial performance using standard accounting reports
- Understand and produce financial reports for a construction company including budgets, cashflow, profit and loss, and balance sheets
Construction LawReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Know the legal and regulatory frameworks within which the design and construction of buildings takes place
- Know the law of contract by applying the law to various construction scenarios and developing advice for the parties involved
- Know the law of torts by applying the law to various construction scenarios and developing advice for the parties involved
- Know the law of property by applying the law to various property scenarios and developing advice for the parties involved
Construction Technology 1Real unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Know the process of site investigation and how it affects the design and construction of low- rise residential buildings
- Know the key characteristics of different construction materials and explain how they can be used in the structure, fabric, components and finishes of low-rise residential buildings
- Know the key characteristics of different building services installations of low-rise residential buildings
- Understand the main regulatory and legal frameworks that affect the design of construction of low- rise residential buildings
- Understand the issues of sustainable construction and global warming and the use of non-carbon based, renewable energies and how these impact on the design and construction of buildings
Design ProjectReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Know the various roles involved with the design and construction of buildings together with the professional knowledge and skills required
- Prepare a feasibility study and design brief for a project on a prescribed site
- Design a residential building that addresses the design brief prescribed site and produce digital information for the proposed design
- Prepare a specification of materials and workmanship for the proposed project
Measurement 1Real unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Undertake a survey of a small site and produce a digital representation of the site
- Undertake the setting out of a simple building
- Prepare quantities for a low- rise residential building including the elements of substructures, walls, floors, roofs, finishes, components, and external works including drainage
- Understand the various cost models appropriate for preparing estimates of the cost of low-rise residential buildings
Organisation and ManagementReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Know how corporate business is planned and executed and explain the primary roles and functions in the process
- Understand the importance of effective communication on construction projects and explain the organisational structures and methods of communication that are used in various circumstances
- Know the theories of teamwork and leadership and explain the factors that affect the effective functioning of teams
- Know the issues of ethics and diversity in the context of construction and explain processes that can be deployed to address them
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 4 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
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
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.
Where this can lead
Construction Lawyer
The path of a Construction Lawyer is challenging but incredibly rewarding. With continuous learning, a sharp legal mind, and a real understanding of the industry, you can build a truly impactful and fulfilling career, shaping the built environment around us.
See the whole journey →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 provides learners with knowledge of the political and socio-economic environments affecting construction. Learners will apply economic theories to construction markets and analyse financial performance of different business types.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for SEG Awards Level 4 Diploma in Quantity Surveying
6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Skills and Education Group Awards.
- Construction Economics
- Construction Law
- Construction Technology 1
- Design Project
- Measurement 1
- Organisation and Management
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.