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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Awarding Body for the Built Environment has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Awarding Body for the Built Environment awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Awarding Body for the Built Environment.
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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Awarding Body for the Built Environment. It does the teaching and the mapping. Awarding Body for the Built Environment sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Advance and develop occupational knowledge and practice in planning, conservation and building control Real 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 building Real 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 solutions Real 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 buildings Real 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 control Real 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 projects Real 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 conservation Real 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 control Real 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 conservation Real 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 repairs Real 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
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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Identify and present planning and conservation policy options
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Investigate and produce integrated conservation, repair and maintenance solutions
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Manage quality and cost variations in conservation projects
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Provide advice to the public about policy, regulations and processes in conservation
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Provide ethical advice, judgement and service in planning, conservation and building control
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Survey and check the asset for the presence and condition of asbestos
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Survey the asset for the presence and condition of asbestos
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 9 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
Associate Digital Twin Engineer
This role can lead to work as a Senior Digital Twin Engineer, designing and delivering complete digital twins for complex assets.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 6 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Awarding Body for the Built Environment 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
Advance and develop occupational knowledge and practice in planning, conservation and building controlDevelop a fully functional 3D digital twin of a traditional buildingDevelop and advise on conservation, repair and maintenance strategies and solutionsEvaluate the long-term consequences of the use of retrofit projects for thermal upgrade of traditional buildingsIdentify and assess significant factors influencing the project proposals in conservation and building controlManage quality and cost variations in conservation projectsPrepare, present and advise on the primary building pathology concerns that are commonly seen within building conservationProvide ethical advice, judgement and service in planning, conservation and building control
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 - Pitch it Evaluate
“Identify and assess significant factors influencing the project proposals in conservation and building control” 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 “Advance and develop occupational knowledge and practice in planning, conservation and building control” 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 “Survey, assess and record the condition of assets in conservation” 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.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Evaluate the long-term consequences of the use of retrofit projects for thermal upgrade of traditional buildings” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
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.
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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
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 Advance and develop occupational knowledge and practice in planning, conservation and building control, one of this qualification's own units.
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.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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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.
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