T Level in Design, Surveying and Planning
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This two-year Construction T Level focuses on Design, Surveying and Planning in the construction and built environment sectors. It has been designed with employers to teach you core content knowledge and skills related to construction, design, surveying and planning, allowing you to progress to highly skilled employment.
Across both years you will study core content. These modules include:
- Health and Safety
- Science, measurement and building technology
- Information, data and digital technology
- Construction mathematical techniques
- Design and sustainability
- Construction and the built environment
- Relationship management, commercial business, project management and law.
The T Level will include a minimum of 315 hours of learning on work experience placement. Our Industrial Placement Officers will help you link up with an employer and complete work experience relevant to your interests.
The qualification has two mandatory components:
- Core Component
This component covers the underpinning knowledge, concepts and skills that support threshold competence in the Construction industry. It has 600 GLH and is assessed by two externally set Core Examinations and an Employer Set Project. - Occupational Specialist Components
There are two Occupational Specialist Components in this qualification, each of which has 600 GLH:
- Surveying and design for construction and the built environment
Students undertaking the T Level Technical Qualification in Construction: Design, Surveying and Planning will be able to choose one of the two Occupational Specialisms to complete as part of their T Level Technical Qualification.
These components cover the occupational specialist knowledge and skills required to demonstrate threshold competence for the specialism. Each Occupational Specialism will be assessed by a skills-related project that synoptically assesses the performance outcome skills and associated underpinning knowledge.
- Five GCSEs at grade 4 or above, including English and maths.
- Successful completion of the Level 2 Certificate, and a successful interview.
- To be aged between 16-18 at the start of the qualification.
Year 1: You will be assessed on the core subject knowledge area by completing:
- Written examination 1: Science and Building Technology
- Written examination 2: Construction Industry and Sustainability
- Employer set project, which involves preparing a report responding to a client brief and initial designs, preparing designs from the proposed project, producing costing documentation and carrying out research to present solutions to problems arising in the scenario.
Year 2: You will complete an end-of-year project based on the occupational specialist pathway.
- This project will be linked to surveying and design for construction and the built environment. You will produce a portfolio of evidence responding to a client brief, analyse information, design construction solutions and verify the delivery of those construction solutions.
Successful completion of this course opens up a variety of exciting progression pathways for your future including higher education, a related apprenticeship or employment.
Career Options
Job roles that this qualification will help you work towards could include:
- Graduate Management Traineeship
- Survey / Surveying Technician
- Architect or Architectural Technician
- Construction Design Coordinator
- Site, Project, Estate Management
- Property Development
- Site Planning and Coordination