T Level Target Examples: Design, Surveying & Planning for Construction

Standardised T Level target examples for the Design, Surveying and Planning for Construction route, covering the employability and technical skills targets for each occupational specialism.

Surveying and Design for Construction and the Built Environment

Employability skills targets:

• Communicating: active listening, use of visual, oral and written methods, engaging an audience, sharing, building rapport, adapting style and tone.
• Working with others with different skills, expertise and experience to accomplish a task or goal.
• Assessing a situation, a proposal, a product or process for potential adverse effects.
• Planning: identifying discrete steps, estimating resources, prioritising, sequencing activity.
• Investigating: identifying sources, developing search criteria and queries, interrogating data, designing and carrying out tests.
• Analysing: identifying common features, organising into types, discerning patterns, deconstructing, classifying, ordering.
• Self-managing: reflecting and inviting feedback on own performance, setting personal goals, referring to others for advice.
• Negotiation: securing agreement on a course of action through discussion, in order to achieve mutually beneficial results.

Technical skills targets:

• Capturing project information.
• Recording project information to the appropriate level of accuracy.
• Understanding methods used to gather project information.
• Understanding how project information is used through the project in different ways.
• Operating measurement digital tools.
• Quality assuring measurements and project information.
• Using digital tools with accuracy and efficiency.
• Understanding the application of measurement standards, guidance and practice, including measurement rules.

Civil Engineering

Employability skills targets:

• Planning: identifying discrete steps, estimating time and resources, prioritising, coordinating, sequencing activities.
• Self-managing: monitoring, reflecting and inviting feedback on own performance, managing time, setting personal goals, referring to others for advice.
• Evaluating: considering and appraising process and evidence, making recommendations.
• Investigating: identifying sources, developing search criteria and queries, interrogating data.
• Working with others with different skills, expertise and experience to accomplish a task or goal.
• Applying a logical approach to identifying issues and proposing solutions.
• Assessing a situation for potential adverse effects.
• Analysing: identifying common features, organising into types, discerning patterns, classifying, ordering.
• Creativity: lateral thinking, making novel connections, handling ambiguity, taking acceptable risks, forming ideas iteratively, futureproofing.
• Critical thinking: questioning, evaluating pros and cons, using logic and reasoned argument, synthesising and concluding.

Technical skills targets:

• Skills to use software to record and analyse data.
• Skills to conduct precedent research.
• Skills to apply mathematical principles.
• Understanding implications of statutory obligations to designs.
• Understanding how measurement standards, guides and practice are applied to civil engineering projects.
• Understanding digital technology and how it is applied in designing civil engineering solutions.
• Skills to design solutions to achieve desired outcomes.
• Skills to model information using digital software and other tools.
• Skills to check accuracy of measurements.
• Understanding structural elements and their application to civil engineering solutions.

Building Services Design

Employability skills targets:

• Self-managing: monitoring, reflecting and inviting feedback on own performance, managing time, setting personal goals, referring to others for advice.
• Evaluating: considering and appraising evidence, making recommendations.
• Analysing: identifying common features, organising into types, discerning patterns, classifying, ordering.
• Conveying information to an audience to stimulate discussion.
• Working with others with different skills, expertise and experience to accomplish a task or goal.
• Applying a logical approach to identifying issues and proposing solutions.
• Assessing a situation for potential adverse effects.
• Critical thinking: questioning, evaluating pros and cons, using logic and reasoned argument, synthesising and concluding.

Technical skills targets:

• Skills to use digital applications to record and verify items.
• Skills to apply mathematical techniques to verifying solutions.
• Understanding environmental performance measures and how they are met and measured.
• Understanding industry standards, guidance and practice and how these are used to verify the delivery of the built environment.
• Understanding techniques for achieving best value and quality.
• Skills to complete a whole life analysis.

Hazardous Materials Analysis and Surveying

Employability skills targets:

• Working with others with different skills, expertise and experience to accomplish a task or goal.
• Applying a logical approach to identifying issues and proposing solutions.
• Assessing a situation for potential adverse effects.
• Planning: identifying discrete steps, prioritising, sequencing activities.
• Analysing: identifying common features, organising into types, discerning patterns, classifying, ordering.
• Recording: transcribing, capturing, saving, storing.
• Observation: situational awareness.
• Self-managing: monitoring, reflecting and inviting feedback on own performance, managing time, setting personal goals, referring to others for advice.
• Conveying information to an audience to stimulate discussion and secure understanding.
• Critical thinking: questioning, evaluating pros and cons, using logic and reasoned argument, synthesising and concluding.

Technical skills targets:

• Skills to use software to record and analyse data.
• Skills to use appropriate equipment and tools with accuracy.
• Understanding safe working practices when dealing with potentially hazardous materials.
• Understanding techniques used to collect samples for analysis.
• Understanding risk management and its application to working with potentially hazardous materials.
• Skills to safely dispose of waste.
• Skills to use different analytical techniques.
• Skills to apply mathematical techniques to analysis.

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