Awarding Body for the Built Environment · RQF Level 6
ABBE Level 6 Diploma in Building Conservation
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- LevelRQF Level 6
- Total credits57
- Guided learning112 hours
- Units in this qualification10
Awarded by Awarding Body for the Built Environment · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
This qualification allows learners to develop specialist knowledge and skills in building conservation. It is intended for professionals working in the building and construction sector who wish to enhance their expertise in the conservation of historic buildings.
These are the units Awarding Body for the Built Environment 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.
Advance and develop occupational knowledge and practice in planning, conservation and building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Develop others using your experience in planning, conservation and building control, providing guidance and support.
- Understand how to develop others using your experience, including mentoring and coaching techniques.
- Undertake continued personal development to enhance occupational knowledge and practice in planning, conservation and building control.
- Understand how to undertake continued personal development, including identifying learning needs and accessing relevant resources.
Develop a fully functional 3D digital twin of a traditional buildingReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key components of a 3D digital twin in the context of traditional buildings
- Understand the functions of a 3D digital twin in the context of traditional buildings
- Understand how digital twins can support building conservation
- Understand how digital twins can support repair planning
- Understand how digital twins can support long-term asset management
- Select appropriate digital surveying techniques to create a 3D digital twin of a traditional building
- Justify appropriate digital surveying techniques to create a 3D digital twin of a traditional building
- Evaluate a 3D digital twin using industry-standard software
- Evaluate a 3D digital twin using industry-standard methodologies
- Refine a 3D digital twin using industry-standard software
- Refine a 3D digital twin using industry-standard methodologies
- Consider the limitations of digital twin technology in heritage conservation
Develop and advise on conservation, repair and maintenance strategies and solutionsReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and develop conservation, repair and maintenance options and strategies for specific projects.
- Understand how to identify and develop conservation, repair and maintenance options and strategies, considering historical significance and sustainability.
- Advise on and refine integrated conservation, repair and maintenance solutions, taking into account stakeholder perspectives.
- Understand how to advise on and refine integrated conservation, repair and maintenance solutions, including cost-benefit analysis and risk assessment.
Evaluate the long-term consequences of the use of retrofit projects for thermal upgrade of traditional buildingsReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand common retrofit strategies used to improve the thermal performance of traditional buildings
- Assess the impact of different retrofit measures on the structural integrity of buildings
- Assess the impact of different retrofit measures on the historic value of buildings
- Analyse case studies of successful thermal upgrade projects
- Analyse case studies of unsuccessful thermal upgrade projects
- Assess the potential risks of retrofit interventions, such as moisture retention
- Assess the potential risks of retrofit interventions, such as material degradation
- Assess the potential unintended consequences of retrofit interventions, such as moisture retention
- Assess the potential unintended consequences of retrofit interventions, such as material degradation
- Develop recommendations for sustainable retrofit approaches
- Develop recommendations for conservation-sensitive retrofit approaches
Identify and assess significant factors influencing the project proposals in conservation and building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Identify significant factors influencing project proposals.
- Assess significant factors influencing project proposals.
- Understand how to identify significant factors influencing project proposals.
- Understand how to assess significant factors influencing project proposals.
Manage quality and cost variations in conservation projectsReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Manage projects to meet agreed quality standards
- Understand the processes involved in managing projects to meet agreed quality standards
- Manage project costs effectively
- Understand the principles of managing project costs
Prepare, present and advise on the primary building pathology concerns that are commonly seen within building conservationReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Identify common building defects in traditional buildings
- Identify the underlying causes of common building defects in traditional buildings
- Evaluate the impact of material decay on historic fabric
- Evaluate the impact of moisture-related issues on historic fabric
- Evaluate the impact of structural movement on historic fabric
- Assess appropriate investigative techniques for diagnosing building pathology concerns
- Present findings related to building pathology
- Provide informed recommendations for remedial conservation strategies
- Communicate effectively with clients regarding building pathology
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders regarding building pathology
- Communicate effectively with conservation professionals regarding building pathology
Provide ethical advice, judgement and service in planning, conservation and building controlReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Exchange information and provide advice.
- Understand how to exchange information and provide advice.
- Evaluate complex issues and generate solutions.
- Understand how to evaluate complex issues and generate solutions.
- Operate in an ethical manner.
- Understand how to operate in an ethical manner.
Survey, assess and record the condition of assets in conservationReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Agree asset condition with relevant stakeholders, using recognised standards and procedures.
- Understand the processes involved in agreeing asset condition, including communication and negotiation techniques.
- Inspect assets to determine their condition, identifying defects and deterioration.
- Understand the methods and techniques used to inspect assets for condition, including visual inspection and non-destructive testing.
- Prepare and submit asset survey reports and records, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
- Understand the requirements for preparing and submitting asset survey reports and records, including data protection and confidentiality.
Understand the evolution of the philosophy of building conservation and evaluate its importance to designing a project of repairsReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Trace the evolution of conservation philosophy from early preservation movements to contemporary approaches
- Understand key international and national conservation charters, standards, and frameworks
- Understand the role of conservation ethics in shaping repair and intervention strategies
- Assess the implications of conservation philosophy when designing repair projects
- Apply conservation principles to develop a contextually appropriate repair strategy
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- Identify and present planning and conservation policy options
- Investigate and produce integrated conservation, repair and maintenance solutions
- Manage quality and cost variations in conservation projects
- Provide advice to the public about policy, regulations and processes in conservation
- Provide ethical advice, judgement and service in planning, conservation and building control
- Survey and check the asset for the presence and condition of asbestos
- Survey the asset for the presence and condition of asbestos
Where this can lead
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Skills it covers
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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
Learners will advance occupational knowledge and practice in planning, conservation, and building control by developing others through guidance and support. The unit also covers undertaking continued personal development to enhance professional competence and practice.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for ABBE Level 6 Diploma in Building Conservation
10 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Awarding Body for the Built Environment.
- Advance and develop occupational knowledge and practice in planning, conservation and building control
- Develop a fully functional 3D digital twin of a traditional building
- Develop and advise on conservation, repair and maintenance strategies and solutions
- Evaluate the long-term consequences of the use of retrofit projects for thermal upgrade of traditional buildings
- Identify and assess significant factors influencing the project proposals in conservation and building control
- Manage quality and cost variations in conservation projects
and 4 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
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- 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.
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Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
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- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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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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