NOCN
Level 3
QN: 610/4331/X
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NOCN Level 3 Diploma in Low Carbon Heating Technician
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by NOCN. Classified as a Vocationally-Related Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 722 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 3
Awarding Body
NOCN
Syllabus Units
8 Units
Guided Hours
722 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Common installation processes and techniques.
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to apply health and safety and welfare when carrying out work activities.
- Be able to use hand and power tools correctly in low carbon heating work.
- Know types of low carbon heating and associated systems pipe
- work and their fabrication techniques.
- Understand site preparation techniques for installing low carbon heating and hot water pipe
- Be able to use clips and brackets to support low carbon heating pipe
- work and components.
- Be able to install low carbon heating and hot water systems pipe
- work to specifications.
2
Electrical work and controls for low carbon heating and hot water systems.
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to apply health, safety, and welfare when carrying out work activities.
- Know how to perform pre-installation activity prior to undertaking electrical work on low carbon heating and hot water system.
- Know how to carry out the safe installation, testing, routine servicing and maintenance, of electrical systems.
- Be able to apply industry standard safe isolation procedures.
- Be able to carry out the identification of faults, safe repair and routine servicing and maintenance of electrical work.
- Be able to de
- commission electrical and electrical control systems applicable to heating and hot water systems.
3
Environmental technology and sustainability.
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the basic principles of environmental technologies.
- Understand the basic principles of sustainability.
- Know how environmental and sustainability principles are applied in practice.
4
Health and safety in a low carbon heating and wider construction environment.
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the basic health and safety legislation for the low carbon heating and wider construction environment.
- Know the principles of risk assessment and hazard identification for maintaining and improving health and safety at work.
- Know the importance of safe manual handling.
- Know the importance of working safely at heights.
- Know risks to health within a low carbon heating and wider construction environment.
- Know the importance of working around plant and equipment safely.
- Understand how to respond to accidents.
- Understand how to work safely with heat producing equipment.
- Know how to apply procedures for electrical safety.
- Know how to use access equipment safely.
- Be able to apply health, safety, and welfare when carrying out work activities.
5
Install, commission, service, maintain and decommission low carbon heating and hot water systems.
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to apply health and safety and welfare when carrying out work activities.
- Be able to interpret designs and plan for low carbon heating and hot water systems installation.
- Prepare to install low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Be able to install low carbon heating and hot water systems to given specifications.
- Be able to test for soundness
- commission, and hand over low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Be able to service
- maintain and fault find on low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Be able to de
- commission cold water, traditional and low carbon heating, and hot water systems.
6
Low carbon heating and hot water systems technology.
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the systems design requirements, and regulatory considerations for cold water installations installed with low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Understand the systems design requirements, and regulatory considerations for low carbon hot water installations.
- Understand the systems design requirements, and regulatory considerations for the installation of traditional and low carbon central heating systems.
7
Planning and supervision.
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Know the role of the construction team within the low carbon heating and hot water systems industry.
- Understand information sources in the building services industry.
- Know how to communicate with others.
- Understand responsibilities of relevant people in the building services industry.
- Be able to produce a work programme for tasks in the low carbon heating and hot water systems industry.
- Be able to produce risk assessments and method statements for the low carbon heating and hot water systems industry.
8
Scientific and mechanical principles.
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand units of measurement used in the low carbon heating and hot water industry.
- Understand properties of materials.
- Understand the relationship between energy, heat, and power.
- Understand principles of force and pressure and their application in the low carbon heating and hot water industry.
- Understand mechanical principles in the low carbon heating and hot water industry.
- Understand principles of electricity in the low carbon heating and hot water industry.
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 610/4331/X
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- NOCN
- Qualification Type
- Vocationally-Related Qualification
- Operational Start
- Jul 2024