Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service · RQF Level 2
EUIAS Level 2 Diploma in Network Construction Operations (Water) - Main Layer
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits33
- Guided learning217 hours
- Units in this qualification17
Awarded by Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service 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 pressure testing, swabbing and disinfection of water network engineering products or assetsReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Perform pressure testing activities
- Use and communicate data and information relating to testing activities
- Resolve problems which arise when performing test activities
- Conduct specified testing of water engineering product or assets
Excavate and maintain holes and trenches for utilities network constructionReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to excavate holes and trenches
- Excavate on site to requirements
- Maintain the integrity of the excavation
- Resolve problems which could arise from excavation work
- Know and understand how excavation work must be carried out to comply with legal, health and safety and industry requirements
- Know and understand how to excavate in a variety of situations using different techniques and equipment
- Know and understand the impact of excavation activities on others and the environment
Install equipment for safe working on sites for utilities network construction operationsReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare, segregate and protect the work site
- Prepare resources for site works
- Install equipment for safe working on site
- Resolve problems which could arise from preparing the site and resource requirements
Install equipment for safe working on the highway in utilities network constructionReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Set out temporary signing, lighting and guarding traffic control equipment
- Prepare resources for highway works
- Use and communicate data and information when working on highways
- Resolve or refer problems which could arise from work on the highway
- Know and understand the health and safety requirements for safe working on the highway
- Know and understand how to install equipment for safe working on the highway
Install water mains above 300mm nominal bore or 355 mm Polyethylene (PE)Real unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret technical information for installing water mains
- Select main components and resources for installation of the system
- Install components of the system
- Use and communicate data and information during installation
- Resolve problems that arise from technical information and installation work
- Install water mains
Install water mains from 150 mm – 300mm nominal bore or 180mm – 355mm Polyethylene (PE)Real unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret technical information for installing water mains
- Select main components and resources for installation of the system
- Install components of the system
- Use and communicate data and information during installation
- Resolve problems that arise from technical information and installation work
- Install water mains
Install water mains up to 150mm nominal bore or 180mm polyethyleneReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret technical information for installing water mains
- Select main 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
- Install water mains
Install water services up to 50mm nominal bore or 63mm polyethyleneReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret technical information for installing water services
- Select water service components and resources for installation of the system
- Install components of the system
- Use and communicate data and information during installation
- Install water services
Joint materials by butt fusion processes above 355mm for utilities network constructionReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Make butt fusion joints on pipes over 355mm
- Use and communicate data and information
- Resolve problems which arise from jointing materials
- Joint materials by butt fusion processes on pipes over 355mm diametre
Joint materials by butt fusion processes between 180mm and 355 mm for utilities network constructionReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Make butt fusion joints on pipes between 180mm and 355mm
- Use and communicate data and information
- Resolve problems which arise from jointing materials
- Joint materials by butt fusion processes on utilities network construction between 180mm and 355mm diametre
Joint materials by butt fusion processes on utilities network construction up to 180mm diameterReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Make joints using butt fusion techniques
- Use and communicate data and information when jointing materials
- Resolve problems which arise from jointing materials
- Joint materials by butt fusion processes on utilities network construction above 180mm diametre
Joint materials by electrofusion processes on utilities network constructionReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Make joints using electrofusion jointing techniques
- Use data and information when jointing materials
- Resolve problems that arise during jointing work
- Know and understand how to joint Polyethylene pipes by electrofusion processes on utilities network construction
Joint materials by mechanical means on water network constructionReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Meet health and safety requirements when jointing materials by mechanical means
- Use and communicate data and information to carry out work activities
- Joint materials by mechanical means
- Resolve problems which arise when performing jointing activities
- Know and understand how to meet health and safety requirements when jointing materials by mechanical means
- Joint materials by mechanical means
- Resolve problems which arise when performing jointing activities
Locate and avoid supply apparatus for utilities network constructionReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Locate supply apparatus
- Maintain the safety and integrity of supply apparatus
- Resolve problems which could arise during activities to locate and avoid supply apparatus
- Know and understand the different types of utility apparatus
- Know and understand equipment and techniques used for locating supply equipment
- Know and understand roles, responsibilities and communication requirements for locating utilities apparatus
Operate powered tools and equipment for utilities network constructionReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare powered tools and equipment for routine and predictable use
- Run and operate powered tools and equipment
- Shut down and carry out post-stop checks on powered tools and equipment
- Use, apply and communicate data and information for the safe operation of powered tools and equipment
- Know and understand the health and safety requirements for the safe operation of powered tools and equipment
- Work with powered tools and equipment
Principles of Health and Safety in Network Construction OperationsReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Know and understand general Health and Safety guidance, legislation and organisational procedures in utilities network construction operations
- Know and understand how to work in excavations safely
Restore water network assets to operational condition by repairReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Restore components to operational condition
- Use, and communicate, data and information during the restoration activities
- Resolve problems that arise when restoring components to operational condition
- Know and understand the health and safety requirements specific to restoring water network assets
- Understand the restoration of water network components to operational condition by repair
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 2 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.
- Assist with site preparation (Integrated Systems Engineering)
- Cleanse Water Mains
- Conduct specified testing of water network engineering products or assets
- Create acceptable dry conditions for restoration operations
- Investigate system performance using flow and pressure equipment
- Joint materials by butt fusion processes
- Joint materials by butt fusion processes on water networks
- Joint materials by electro fusion processes on water networks
Where this can lead
Associate Edge Platform Engineer
Your journey starts here, learning the fundamentals and getting your hands dirty. Where it goes next is largely up to you. We'll provide the opportunities, the challenges, and the support; you bring the drive and the curiosity. We're excited to see what you'll achieve.
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 EUIAS Level 2 Diploma in Network Construction Operations (Water) - Main Layer
17 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service.
- Conduct pressure testing, swabbing and disinfection of water network engineering products or assets
- Excavate and maintain holes and trenches for utilities network construction
- Install equipment for safe working on sites for utilities network construction operations
- Install equipment for safe working on the highway in utilities network construction
- Install water mains above 300mm nominal bore or 355 mm Polyethylene (PE)
- Install water mains from 150 mm – 300mm nominal bore or 180mm – 355mm Polyethylene (PE)
and 11 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.