Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service · RQF Level 2
EUIAS Level 2 Diploma in Network Construction Operations (Gas) - Escape, Locate and Repair
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits34
- Guided learning222 hours
- Units in this qualification25
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.
Analyse and interpret the results of gas leakage surveys to determine the location of gas escapesReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse and interpret the results of surveys to determine the location of escapes
- Use and communicate data and information
- Resolve problems that arise when analysing and interpreting the results of surveys
- Understand how to analyse and interpret the results of gas leakage surveys to determine the location of gas escapes
Conduct specified connections to gas network mains and commissioningReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret technical information for connecting engineering assets to the system
- Select components and resources for the connection
- Connect engineering products or assets to the system
- Use and communicate data and information
- Resolve problems that arise during assembly or sub-assembly replacement
- Understand specified connections to gas network mains and commissioning
Conduct specified testing of Gas servicesReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Perform test activities
- Use and communicate data and information within test activities
- Resolve problems which arise when performing test activities
- Know and understand specified testing of gas services
Conduct specified testing of gas network components and assets - mainsReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for carrying out test activities
- Perform test activities
- Monitor test results
- Know and understand health, safety and environmental requirements relevant to testing activities
- Know and understand specified testing of gas network – components and assets
Conduct specified testing of gas networks associated with leakage locationReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct specified testing of gas networks associated with leakage location
- Use and communicate data and information relevant to testing activities
- Resolve problems that arise when testing gas networks for leaks
- Know and understand specified testing of gas networks associated with leakage location
Decommissioning and abandonment of mains and services 63mm and aboveReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
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
- Decommission gas engineering products or assets
Disconnection of gas meters and regulatorsReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for disconnecting gas metres and regulators
- Disconnect gas metres
- Know and understand health and safety requirements underpinning the disconnection of gas metres and regulators
- Know and understand how to disconnect gas metres and regulators
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 Gas services up to 63mmReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
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 during installation
- Resolve problems that arise from technical information and installation work
- Install gas services up to 63mm
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 gas engineering products or assets above 180mm, up to and including 355mmReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
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
- Install gas engineering products or assets above 355mm
Install gas engineering products or assets above 355mmReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
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
- Install gas engineering products or assets above 355mm
- Understand isolation and connection methods
Install gas engineering products or assets up to 180mmReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
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 technical information to brief colleagues
- Know and understand health and safety and environmental requirements for the installation of gas network products or assets
- Install gas engineering products or assets up to 180mm
Install or replace external gas service risersReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
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
- Install or replace gas service risers
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 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
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
Minimise risks to life, property and the environment during gas escapesReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Assess risks to life, property and the environment during gas emergencies
- Minimise and prioritise risks to life, property and the environment during gas emergencies
- Use approved gas detection and safety equipment
- Use and communicate data and information
- Resolve problems that arise when testing for escapes of gas
- Understand how to minimise risks to life, property and the environment during gas escapes
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
Operate within the gas intermediate pressure rangeReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key documents that apply to working in the gas intermediate pressure range.
- Understand how to 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” diam
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
Principles of operating safely in emergency situations within the gas intermediate pressure rangeReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Know and understand key documents that apply to emergency situations when working in the intermediate pressure range.
- Evaluate hazards and risks, including environmental, that apply to emergency situations in the intermediate pressure range
- Know the importance of using the correct personal protective equipment and safety equipment when working in emergency situations in the intermediate pressure range
- Set up a safety exclusion zone at the location of a gas escape within the intermediate pressure range sector for emergency working.
- Identify and use
Restore gas network components to operational conditionReal unit · Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service
What you'll be able to do
- Restore components to operational condition
- Resolve problems that arise when restoring components to operational condition
- Know and understand the health and safety requirements specific to restoring gas network components
- Know and understand the restoration of gas 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.
- Analyse and interpret the results of engineering activities in diverse situations
- Assist with site preparation (Integrated Systems Engineering)
- Commission assets on the utility network
- Conduct Specified Testing of Gas Network Components and Assets
- Conduct Specified Testing of Gas Network Engineering Components and Assets in Gas Network Construction
- Conduct Specified Testing of Gas Network Engineering Products or Assets in Complex Situations Legacy
- Conduct and Commission Specified Connections to Gas Network Assets
- Conduct and Commission Specified Connections to Gas Network Mains in Complex Situations Legacy
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 own work
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for EUIAS Level 2 Diploma in Network Construction Operations (Gas) - Escape, Locate and Repair
25 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service.
- Analyse and interpret the results of gas leakage surveys to determine the location of gas escapes
- Conduct specified connections to gas network mains and commissioning
- Conduct specified testing of Gas services
- Conduct specified testing of gas network components and assets - mains
- Conduct specified testing of gas networks associated with leakage location
- Decommissioning and abandonment of mains and services 63mm and above
and 19 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.
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