Craft Qualifications
The construction industry is working towards everyone achieving a Scottish or National Vocational Qualification (S/NVQ). These qualifications focus on you demonstrating your competence by assessing your work on-site combined with some college-based work. You have to be employed to achieve an S/NVQ.
Most crafts have an S/NVQ available at both levels 2 and 3. The Heritage Skills NVQ has pathways for all the traditional crafts.
Heritage Craft Qualifications
Heritage Skills NVQ Level 3:
The principal craft qualification for the heritage sector, with routes for brickwork, craft masonry, carpentry and joinery, earth walling, painting and decorating, plastering, roofing, stonemasonry, thatching, wall and floor tiling.
National Progression Award in Conservation of Masonry: designed for the stonemasonry industry in Scotland.
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Mainstream Craft Qualifications
Trowel Occupations:
NVQ Levels 2 & 3, including Bricklayer and Craft Mason
Wood Occupations:
NVQ Levels 2 & 3, Site Carpentry, Bench Joinery, Wheelwrighting
NVQ Level 2 Heavy Structural Timber Framing
Roofing Occupations:
NVQ Level 2, Hard Metals and/or Lead
NVQ Levels 2 & 3, Roof Tiler, Roof Slater and Roof Slater & Tiler (combined)
NVQ Levels 2 & 3, Thatching option route
Decorative Finishing and Industrial Painting Occupations:
NVQ Levels 2 & 3, Painter and Decorator
Façade Cleaning/Repair:
NVQ Level 2, Façade Preservation
Plastering:
NVQ Levels 2 & 3
Accessing Operations and Rigging:
NVQs Levels 2 & 3, Steeplejacking
Stonemasonry:
NVQ Levels 2 & 3
There is an equivalent SVQ available where there is an NVQ.