T Level Construction

Applications Open: 9th October 2025

How to Apply:

Internal students - Apply via Applicaa using this link - https://waterfront.applicaa.com/year12-20262027

External students - Apply via KentChoices using this link - https://www.kentprospectus.co.uk/login. Please note - after sending your application, you'll receive a welcome email from Applicaa asking for further information.

T Levels are new two-year, Level 3 study programmes that will follow the study of GCSEs and Technical Awards at Key Stage 4 and offer an attractive alternative to A Levels and Apprenticeships. T Levels will combine classroom theory, practical learning and a minimum 315 hours of industry placement with an employer to make sure students have real experience of the workplace.

The Technical Qualification (TQ) is the main classroom-based element of the T Level and will see students learning from a qualification that has been shaped by industry experts. During the two-year programme, students will learn the core knowledge that underpins each industry and they will also develop occupationally specific skills that will allow them to enter skilled employment within a specific occupation.

The T Level programmes have been developed in collaboration with employers and businesses so the content will meet the needs of industry and prepare students for work. They provide the knowledge and experience needed to open the door to highly skilled employment, an Apprenticeship or higher-level study, including university.

The T Level Technical Qualification in Design, Surveying and Planning for Construction has two mandatory components:

1. 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.

2. Occupational Specialist Components

There are four Occupational Specialist Components in this qualification, each of which has 600 GLH:

1. Surveying and design for construction and the built environment

2. Civil engineering

3. Building services design

4. Hazardous materials analysis and surveying.

Students undertaking the T Level Technical Qualification in Design, Surveying and Planning for Construction will be able to choose one of the four 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.

The core content covers the knowledge, understanding and application of contexts, concepts, theories and principles relating to the following areas:

1. Health and safety

2. Science

3. Measurement

4. Building technology

5. Information and data

6. Digital technology

7. Construction mathematical techniques

8. Design

9. Construction and the built environment industry

10. Sustainability

11. Relationship management

12. Commercial business

13. Project management

14. Law

The Occupational Specialist content is separated into four Performance Outcomes, with the skills needed to achieve threshold competence and the knowledge to underpin skill application across the following areas.

1. Measure the built environment

2. Analyse the built environment

3. Design the built environment

4. Verify delivery of the built environment

There are three assessments in the Core Component of the T Level Technical Qualification in Design, Surveying and Planning for Construction:

1. Examination Paper 1: Science and Building Technology

2. Examination Paper 2: Construction Industry and Sustainability

3. Employer Set Project.

x5 GCSEs at Grade 9-4 - including English and Mathematics

Students who complete a T Level Technical Qualification in Design, Surveying and Planning for Construction will be able to choose between moving into a skilled occupation or further study; for example, a higher or degree level Apprenticeship, or higher-level technical study, including higher education. Therefore, it was essential we developed the qualification in close collaboration with experts from professional bodies, businesses, universities, and with the Providers who will be delivering the qualification.