Awarding Body for the Built Environment · RQF Level 5
Construction Project Management
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- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits15
- Guided learning98 hours
- Units in this qualification17
Awarded by Awarding Body for the Built Environment · on the Ofqual register
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Aimed at construction professionals, this Level 5 NVQ in Construction Project Management develops skills in regulatory compliance, dispute resolution, and client relationship management. Learners will also gain competence in advising on health and safety matters and coordinating project development processes.
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.
Advise on Health and Safety MattersReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and regulations.
- Identify potential hazards in a given environment or situation.
- Assess the level of risk associated with identified hazards.
- Advise on appropriate control measures to mitigate identified risks.
- Understand various health and safety communication methods and their effective application.
Advise on Project Design, Statutory Control and Documentation RequirementsReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of project design.
- Know the statutory control requirements relevant to project design and implementation.
- Advise on the necessary documentation required for project approval and compliance.
- Understand relevant legislation impacting project design and statutory control.
- Interpret technical drawings and specifications related to project design.
Appraise Financial, Resource and Risk Factors Affecting Potential Development, Improvement and UseReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Appraise the key financial factors affecting potential development, improvement and use of projects
- Appraise the key resource factors affecting potential development, improvement and use of projects
- Appraise the key risk factors affecting potential development, improvement and use of projects
- Understand the potential for development in a given project context
- Understand the potential for improvement in a given project context
- Understand the potential for use in a given project context
Co-ordinate and Verify the Project Development ProcessReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the stages and processes involved in project development.
- Co-ordinate project activities to ensure efficient and effective progress.
- Verify project outcomes against agreed specifications and objectives.
- Know and apply quality assurance methods to project development.
- Understand and adhere to communication protocols within a project environment.
Co-ordinate the Health and Safety Aspects of the Design DevelopmentReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relevant health and safety legislation and regulations applicable to design development.
- Identify potential hazards related to design development processes and outputs.
- Assess the risks associated with identified hazards in design development, considering likelihood and severity.
- Implement appropriate safety measures to mitigate identified risks in design development.
- Communicate safety information effectively to relevant stakeholders involved in the design development process.
Commission ProjectsReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the processes involved in commissioning projects, including legal and ethical considerations
- Plan the commissioning of projects, taking into account project objectives and stakeholder requirements
- Manage project resources effectively during the commissioning phase, including budget and personnel
- Monitor project progress against agreed milestones and performance indicators during commissioning
- Evaluate project outcomes following commissioning to determine success and identify areas for improvement
Contribute to the Resolution of DisputesReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand dispute resolution processes, including negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and litigation, and their respective advantages and disadvantages.
- Gather information related to disputes, including evidence, witness statements, and relevant documentation, to support the resolution process.
- Communicate effectively with parties involved in disputes, including active listening, clear articulation of concerns, and respectful dialogue.
- Contribute to finding solutions to disputes by exploring options, proposing compromises, and facilitating agreement among parties.
- Document dispute resolution activities, including meeting minutes, settlement agreements, and outcomes, to maintain a record of the process and ensure accountability.
Ensure the Preparation of Health and Safety Plans and FilesReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relevant health and safety legislation and regulations pertaining to the preparation of health and safety plans and files.
- Prepare comprehensive health and safety plans, outlining procedures and measures to ensure a safe working environment.
- Prepare detailed health and safety files, documenting relevant information for future reference and compliance.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date health and safety records, ensuring compliance with legal requirements and organisational policies.
Establish & Maintain Client Relationships & Provide Solutions to & Advice on, Complex, Indeterminate Problems within an Ethical FrameworkReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Establish and maintain professional and effective client relationships.
- Understand the principles and application of ethical frameworks in a professional context.
- Provide well-reasoned and effective solutions to complex problems.
- Provide clear, concise and relevant advice on indeterminate problems.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of implemented solutions against pre-defined criteria.
- Communicate effectively with clients, using appropriate methods and language.
Establish Client Requirements for Project ProcurementReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand client procurement processes and procedures within the relevant organisational context
- Establish client requirements for project procurement, ensuring alignment with project objectives and budget
- Document procurement needs clearly and comprehensively, including specifications and evaluation criteria
- Advise on procurement options, considering factors such as cost, quality and sustainability
- Understand risk management principles in procurement, including identifying and mitigating potential risks
Identify and Confirm Regulatory and Legal Factors Affecting Potential Development, Improvement and UseReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Identify relevant regulatory factors that may affect potential development, improvement, and use of resources or processes.
- Identify relevant legal factors that may affect potential development, improvement, and use of resources or processes.
- Confirm the impact of regulatory factors on development, improvement, and use, including compliance requirements and potential restrictions.
- Confirm the impact of legal factors on development, improvement, and use, including liability issues and contractual obligations.
- Understand the implications for development and use arising from regulatory and legal factors, and how to mitigate potential risks.
Identify, Assess and Agree Client, User and Community Requirements for ProjectsReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand various methods for identifying client requirements for projects, including consultation and research techniques
- Assess user needs for projects, considering diverse user groups and accessibility requirements
- Agree community requirements for projects, ensuring alignment with local priorities and regulations
- Document agreed requirements clearly and comprehensively, using appropriate formats and communication channels
- Understand the importance of stakeholder engagement throughout the project lifecycle, including methods for effective communication and collaboration
Negotiate and Agree a Brief and Project ProgrammeReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand various negotiation techniques and strategies applicable to agreeing project briefs and programmes.
- Agree a clear and concise project brief with relevant stakeholders, defining project objectives, scope, and deliverables.
- Agree a realistic and achievable project programme, outlining key milestones, timelines, and resource allocation.
- Document agreements reached during negotiation, ensuring clarity and mutual understanding among all parties involved.
Obtain Feedback and Control Project Costs, Quality and ProgressReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Obtain feedback on project performance from relevant stakeholders, including clients, team members, and supervisors.
- Control project costs effectively, monitoring expenditure and implementing measures to stay within budget.
- Control project quality, ensuring that deliverables meet agreed standards and specifications.
- Control project progress, tracking milestones and taking corrective action to keep the project on schedule.
- Understand the importance of project control in achieving project objectives and ensuring successful outcomes.
Plan, Allocate and Evaluate Work Carried Out by Teams, Individuals and SelfReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Plan work effectively for teams, considering individual skills, workload, and project requirements.
- Allocate work appropriately to individuals, matching tasks to their capabilities and experience.
- Evaluate work carried out by teams and individuals, providing constructive feedback and identifying areas for improvement.
- Understand team dynamics and how to foster a collaborative and productive working environment.
- Manage own workload effectively, prioritising tasks and meeting deadlines.
Prepare and Agree ContractsReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of contract law relevant to project contracts
- Prepare contract documentation accurately and comprehensively, including specifications, terms and conditions
- Negotiate contract terms effectively, balancing the interests of all parties involved
- Agree contract details that are clear, unambiguous and legally sound
- Understand dispute resolution processes and mechanisms for resolving contractual disagreements
Prepare and Process Estimate, Bid and Tender EnquiriesReal unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare accurate and comprehensive estimates for project costs.
- Process bid enquiries efficiently and effectively.
- Process tender enquiries in accordance with established procedures.
- Understand various cost estimation techniques and their application.
- Know relevant regulations and guidelines pertaining to estimates, bids and tenders.
- Analyse client requirements to inform the preparation of estimates, bids and tenders.
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Where these credits take you
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- Assess and advise on regulatory factors affecting potential developments
- Commission Research
- Confirm the commissioning process achieves nuclear material accountancy and safeguards requirements
- Direct design service businesses
- Direct the resolution of design disputes
- Draft documentation to meet specified legal and regulatory requirements and review how you manage your time
- Ensure that contracts are prepared, negotiated and agreed in construction management
- Evaluate and resolve disputes in planning, conservation and building control
Where this can lead
Health and Safety Advisor
Your journey here as a Health and Safety Advisor is just the beginning. We're committed to helping you grow, whether that's into a leadership role, a deep technical specialism, or even moving into broader EHS (Environmental, Health, and Safety) management. The opportunities are there for you to seize.
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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
Learners will gain knowledge of health and safety legislation, hazard identification, and risk assessment. This unit enables advising on control measures and effective communication methods to promote workplace health and safety compliance.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Construction Project Management
17 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Awarding Body for the Built Environment.
- Advise on Health and Safety Matters
- Advise on Project Design, Statutory Control and Documentation Requirements
- Appraise Financial, Resource and Risk Factors Affecting Potential Development, Improvement and Use
- Co-ordinate and Verify the Project Development Process
- Co-ordinate the Health and Safety Aspects of the Design Development
- Commission Projects
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.
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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
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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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