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We offer a wide range of Construction certificates and diplomas. These include level 2, 3, 4 and 7 qualifications.
These are the units Highfield Qualifications 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Control budgets and contract payment entitlement in construction management Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Manage construction project budgets effectively, ensuring adherence to financial constraints
- Monitor expenditure against budget, identifying and addressing any variances promptly
- Evaluate entitlement for payment based on contract terms and completed work
- Authorise payments in accordance with contractual obligations and project progress
- Maintain accurate records of all financial transactions related to the project
Control projects in construction management Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Control project quality by implementing and monitoring quality assurance processes.
- Control legal and contractual project compliance by adhering to relevant legislation and contractual obligations.
- Control project progress by monitoring milestones, managing delays, and implementing corrective actions.
- Control project value and costs by managing budgets, tracking expenditure, and identifying cost-saving opportunities.
Develop self and others in construction management Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Undertake continuing personal development to enhance construction management skills and knowledge.
- Manage the continued personal development of others within a construction management context.
Direct the management of design development and processes in construction management Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Determine potential hazards and risks associated with the design development process in construction projects
- Assess the likelihood and impact of identified hazards and risks
- Develop and implement strategies to reduce risks in design solutions, ensuring safety and compliance
- Manage the design process, coordinating with relevant stakeholders to achieve project objectives
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of risk mitigation measures throughout the design development process
Ensure that contracts are prepared, negotiated and agreed in construction management Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Formulate forms of contract appropriate for specific construction projects, considering legal and commercial implications.
- Negotiate and agree contracts with relevant parties, ensuring that terms and conditions are clearly defined and mutually acceptable.
Establish project procurement arrangements in construction management Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Formulate procurement strategies for construction projects, considering relevant factors and regulations.
- Approve project suppliers based on established criteria and organisational procedures.
- Justify the selection of a specific form of contract for a construction project, based on project requirements and risk assessment.
Evaluate and progress the resolution of contractual disputes in construction management Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate the implications for the resolution of contractual disputes in construction management.
- Negotiate the resolution of disputes in construction management, aiming for mutually acceptable outcomes.
Evaluate sustainable resources and requirements for the whole lifecycle of a construction project Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate project whole life costs, taking into account sustainability and low carbon requirements.
- Understand how to evaluate project whole life costs, considering sustainability and low carbon requirements.
- Assess and provide for the conservation of energy use within a construction project.
- Understand how to assess and provide for the conservation of energy use in construction projects.
Implement, monitor and control strategic procurement systems in construction management Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Formulate and implement procurement systems that align with organisational objectives and industry best practices.
- Monitor and control arrangements for strategic sourcing, ensuring value for money and compliance with procurement policies.
Manage marketing and customer service in construction management Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Research and develop new products and services relevant to the construction management sector
- Formulate a comprehensive marketing strategy to promote construction management services and products
- Implement the marketing strategy, utilising appropriate channels and techniques to reach target audiences
- Manage client and customer satisfaction by addressing their needs and resolving any issues effectively
- Monitor and evaluate customer feedback to improve service delivery and enhance customer relationships
Manage project processes in construction management Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Assess and manage project risks and opportunities.
- Understand how to assess and manage project risks and opportunities.
- Develop and maintain systems for managing health, safety and welfare.
- Understand how to develop and maintain systems for managing health, safety and welfare.
- Establish and manage project team activities.
- Understand how to establish and manage project team activities.
- Implement project organisation and communication systems.
- Understand how to implement project organisation and communication systems.
- Obtain and evaluate project feedback information and make improvements.
- Understand how to obtain and evaluate project feedback information and make improvements.
Manage teams in construction management Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Formulate a project team, considering skills, roles, and responsibilities within construction management.
- Manage working relationships within a construction project team, promoting effective communication and collaboration.
Manage tendering processes in construction management Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate the pre-qualification of tenderers to ensure their suitability for construction projects
- Develop and implement a process for obtaining bids and tenders from qualified contractors
- Analyse successful bids and tenders, considering factors such as price, quality, and experience
- Select the most appropriate contractor based on a comprehensive evaluation of their bid
- Document the tendering process and maintain accurate records of all bids received
Manage the handover of the construction project in the workplace Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Confirm project requirements and consult with stakeholders to develop and agree a handover programme.
- Check that project requirements have been met, or record outstanding work in order to agree and arrange a satisfactory completion.
- Carry out handover inspections and appropriate tests ensuring they are witnessed by stakeholders and certificated in accordance with current legislation.
- Record stakeholder concerns during inspection and agree any required actions.
- Ensure that stakeholders’ respective responsibilities are accepted and adopted.
- Assemble and hand over appropriate documentation in accordance with the project.
Manage the preparation and submission of estimates, bids and tenders in construction management Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate estimate, bid and tender enquiry documentation
- Evaluate the resource requirements and costs within an estimate, bid and tender
- Formulate an estimate, bid and tender offer
Plan a construction organisation's workforce Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Determine the workforce requirements for a construction organisation, considering project demands and organisational goals
- Develop comprehensive workforce plans that align with project timelines and budget constraints
- Implement and manage workforce plans, adapting to changing project needs and resource availability
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of workforce plans, identifying areas for improvement and optimisation
Prepare and agree a project brief and outline programme in construction management Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Formulate a draft project brief that clearly defines project objectives, scope, and deliverables.
- Develop a project outline programme that outlines key milestones, timelines, and resource requirements.
- Determine project stakeholder requirements by engaging with stakeholders and gathering their input on project objectives and priorities.
Provide advice, judgement and service ethically in construction management Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Provide advice on technical construction issues, demonstrating expertise and knowledge.
- Resolve complex multifaceted construction problems, applying appropriate strategies and solutions.
- Provide construction services within an ethical framework, adhering to professional standards and guidelines.
Sustainability and environmental impact of developments in construction management Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Appraise the environmental impact of development proposals.
- Establish sustainability requirements.
- Establish sustainable resources.
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
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Assess and evaluate the sustainability and environmental impact of developments in construction management
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Control Projects in Construction Management
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Control budgets and contract entitlement in construction management
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Develop self and others in construction management
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Direct the management of design development and processes in construction management
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Ensure that contracts are prepared, negotiated and agreed in construction management
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Establish project procurement arrangements in construction management
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Evaluate and progress the resolution of contractual disputes in construction management
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Evaluate sustainable resources and requirements for the whole life cycle of a construction project
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Implement procurement processes in construction management
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Implement, monitor and control strategic procurement systems in construction management
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Manage marketing and customer service in construction management
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Manage project processes in construction management
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Manage teams in construction management
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Manage the preparation and submission of estimates, bids, and tenders in construction management
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Negotiate and agree the brief and development programme
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Prepare and agree a project brief and outline programme in construction management
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Provide advice, judgement and service ethically in construction management
The jobs these credits are mapped to
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Where this can lead
Senior Sustainability Specialist (Facilities)
This work can lead to a director of sustainability role, running strategy for a whole property portfolio, or a chief sustainability officer role, setting sustainability direction across a business.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 7 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Highfield Qualifications rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Control budgets and contract payment entitlement in construction managementControl projects in construction managementDevelop self and others in construction managementDirect the management of design development and processes in construction managementEnsure that contracts are prepared, negotiated and agreed in construction managementEstablish project procurement arrangements in construction managementEvaluate and progress the resolution of contractual disputes in construction managementEvaluate sustainable resources and requirements for the whole lifecycle of a construction project
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Coach · your practice partner Illustration - Rehearse the conversation Apply
“Ensure that contracts are prepared, negotiated and agreed in construction management” is a conversation before it is a document. You have it with Zavmo playing the other person, badly at first, then again once you know what you actually want to say.
- Pitch it Evaluate
“Manage marketing and customer service in construction management” gets practised as a pitch. You make the case out loud, Zavmo asks the question the room would ask, and you make it again.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Control projects in construction management” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Control budgets and contract payment entitlement in construction management” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Assess and evaluate the sustainability and environmental impact of developments in construction management
- Control Projects in Construction Management
- Control budgets and contract entitlement in construction management
- Develop self and others in construction management
- Direct the management of design development and processes in construction management
- Ensure that contracts are prepared, negotiated and agreed in construction management
- Establish project procurement arrangements in construction management
- Evaluate and progress the resolution of contractual disputes in construction management
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Control budgets and contract payment entitlement in construction management, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit covers the management of construction project budgets, including the identification of key budget components and methods for effective budget control. Learners will develop skills to evaluate payment entitlements based on contract terms and authorise payments while maintaining accurate financial records.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for Highfield Level 7 NVQ in Construction Senior Management (RQF)
19 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Highfield Qualifications.
- Control budgets and contract payment entitlement in construction management
- Control projects in construction management
- Develop self and others in construction management
- Direct the management of design development and processes in construction management
- Ensure that contracts are prepared, negotiated and agreed in construction management
- Establish project procurement arrangements in construction management
and 13 more in the full unit list below.
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