BTEC Level 3 Advanced Diploma in Electrical Principles with Refrigeration, Heating and Air Conditioning

Who is it for?

If you're looking to begin a career in electrical installation, specialising in RHVAC, this course is ideal, particularly if you're organised and like to work carefully and systematically. Alternatively, you may already be working in the area and want to formalise your work-based learning with a recognised qualification.

Where can it lead?

With new buildings requiring climate control systems being built all over the country, this is a career that offers many opportunities. You may take up a role within a general construction company or work for a registered electrical contracting or RHVAC firm. This is a profession that can also lead to the creation of your own business, and the rewards of working for yourself.

Salary?

Being a specialised area and one that is in demand, RHVAC installation and maintenance can prove a highly rewarding career. From the more modest salaries expected at entry level, qualified specialists can average around £30,000, with the salary rising with more experience.

Can I apply?

For this course, you need to be over 16 years of age and educated to a minimum of GCSE standard D-G, or hold an NVQ at level 1 or a GNVQ Foundation Certificate. Note that parts of the course are mathematical in nature.

Course Code

W27

Period of study

18 months

What will I study?  

Health, Safety and Welfare

• Examine the employer’s and employee’s responsibilities for health, safety and welfare in the workplace.
• Learn how to reduce risks in the workplace.

Heating

• Explore clients’ differing requirements, and learn how to identify locations with special heating requirements.
• Examine local and central systems.
• Study comfort indices, internal and external design temperatures, infiltration rates and the effects of building exposure.
• Consider the relevant regulations, codes of practice and standards.

Ventilation and Air Conditioning

• Learn how to design air conveyance systems and single-zone air conditioning systems.
• Explore commissioning, operational and maintenance requirements.

Refrigeration Technology

• Explore the design principles for the selection and balancing of equipment.
• Learn how to install refrigeration and air conditioning plants.
• Examine the codes of practice and relevant legislation.

Electrical Principles

Explore the various components used in electronic circuits and learn their characteristics. Examine the differences between analogue and digital signals, and consider how these differences relate to control principles. Learn how both transformers and rotating machines are constructed, and discover their operational characteristics. Explore circuit theorems, as well as single-phase and three-phase circuits.

Assessment

You will complete four formative assessments, and five compulsory assessments. These can be completed online (the fastest option) or posted to ICS. Scenario-based assignments test that you can apply the knowledge you have learnt from the course to imaginary scenarios. Each assignment requires you to complete a number of questions or activities.

• Formative Assessment 1: 12 multiple choice questions
• Assessment 1: a scenario-based assignmen
• Formative Assessment 2: 25 multiple choice question
• Assessment 2: a scenario-based assignment
• Formative Assessment 3: 30 multiple choice questions
• Assessment 3: a scenario-based assignment
• Formative Assessment 4: 34 multiple choice questions
• Assessment 4: a scenario-based assignment
• Assessment 5: a scenario-based assignment

Course Code

W27