The following ranges apply:
Learning Outcomes 1 and 2
• Sources of information:
- people within your organisation
- people outside your organisation
- internal information systems
- published media
- specially commissioned research
- valid personal experience
• Types of information:
- quantitative
- qualitative
• Methods of obtaining information:
- listening and watching
- reading
- spoken questioning
- written questioning
- formal research conducted personally
- formal research conducted by third parties
• Decisions:
m affecting operational performance
m affecting organisational policy
Learning Outcomes 3 and 4
• Project Stakeholders:
- the client
- design consultants
- line management
- potential contractors
- potential subcontractors and suppliers
- independent client advisers
- user groups
- funding agencies
- special interest groups
- local community
• Goals and Objectives
- quantity
- design quality
- build quality
- cost
- time
- development
- improvement
- fitness for purpose
- whole life costs
- use/adaptability
- whole life costs
- health, safety and welfare
- economic impacts
- community impacts
- environmental impact
- security
- conservation impact
• Clarify the project stakeholders’ requirements by:
- reference to standard documentation
- checklists
- client consultation
- questionnaires
- comparative field research
- market research
- technical requirements
- client requirements
- insurance risk impact
- project management plan
• Constraints and risks
- cost
- time
- resources
- health and safety
- the environment
- technical
Learning Outcomes 5 and 6
• Scope of work:
- time
- cost
- quality objectives
• Services:
- design (including management services)
- materials
- construction (e.g. buildings, roads, motorways, railways and all infrastructure projects)
- plant and equipment
- people
- manufacture
• Present:
- orally
- in writing
- graphically
- electronically
This unit must be assessed in a work environment, in accordance with the ConstructionSkills‘ Consolidated Assessment Strategy for Construction and the Built Environment.
Assessors for this unit must have verifiable, current industry experience and a sufficient depth of relevant occupational expertise and knowledge, and must use a combination of assessment methods as defined in the Consolidated Assessment Strategy.
Workplace evidence of skills cannot be simulated