MCIAT POP Record

Performance standards

Unit 1  Client and user requirements

• 1.1  Identify, assess and challenge client requirements
• 1.2  Identify, analyse and challenge user and community factors

Unit 2  Feasibility studies

• 2.1  Assess survey requirements, data standards and outputs
• 2.2  Select critical investigation requirements
• 2.3  Investigate and evaluate development factors likely problems and potential solutions

Unit 3  Sustainable development

• 3.1  Identify and evaluate resource availability
• 3.2  Investigate and evaluate sustainable development requirements
• 3.3  Establish arrangements for sustainable development impact
• 3.4  Assess environmental impact of development proposals 

Unit 4  Project planning

• 4.1  Select and agree procurement procedures with clients
• 4.2  Recommend and agree forms of contract
• 4.3  Select and form a design team
• 4.4  Confirm and agree design team responsibilities and processes
• 4.5  Establish and monitor design team working methods
• 4.6 Establish project team partnering

Unit 5  Health and safety

• 5.1  Identify and assess hazards and risks
• 5.2  Make design choices to reduce health and safety risks
• 5.3 Ensure your actions reduce risks to health and safety

Unit 6  Regulations

• 6.1 Assess regulatory requirements and constraints
• 6.2 Assess and advise upon options for potential developments
• 6.3  Assess and advise on legal requirements and constraints
• 6.4  Confirm statutory control and consent requirements and their implications

Unit 7  Concept design development

• 7.1  Prepare, present and agree proposals for briefs
• 7.2  Develop design programmes which meet the requirements of the brief
• 7.3  Assess and develop significant parameters affecting the project design
• 7.4  Select, test and develop design options

Unit 8  Design proposals

• 8.1  Present and justify project design recommendations
• 8.2  Advise clients on the selection and modification of design proposals
• 8.3  Assess detailed design implications of design recommendations

Unit 9  Technical design development

• 9.1  Identify the purpose, methods and techniques for preparing detailed designs
• 9.2  Evaluate and select materials, components and systems
• 9.3  Investigate, calculate, analyse and resolve detailed design solutions

Unit 10  Design information management

• 10.1  Set up systems for controlling document production
• 10.2  Integrate, evaluate and recommend changes to design information 

Unit 11  Specifications

• 11.1 Draft prescriptive technical specifications
• 11.2 Define technical performance specification requirements

Unit 12  Tenders and contracts

• 12.1 Select and evaluate forms of tender and potential tenderers
• 12.2 Formulate, estimate, bid and tender enquiries
• 12.3 Evaluate, select and agree estimates, bids and tenders
• 12.4 Negotiate and agree contracts
• 12.5 Issue and enforce certification for contracts

Unit 13  Control compliance

• 13.1 Control contracts against agreed quality standards
• 13.2 Control contract compliance with legal and statutory requirements
• 13.3 Control contract progress against agreed programmes
• 13.4 Control costs against agreed budgets

Unit 14  Project completion

• 14.1 Manage project handover and completion      
• 14.2 Obtain and evaluate feedback information and promote improvements
• 14.3 Specify information and guidance to support and use and maintenance planning of property, systems and services

Unit 15  Management of meetings

• 15.1 Manage meetings
• 15.2 Make analytical contributions to meetings

Unit 16  Professional relationships

• 16.1 Develop and maintain relationships with people who are affected by your work
• 16.2 Present technical information and provide advice on technical problems
• 16.3 Identify, summarise and analyse complex, indeterminate problems
• 16.4 Contribute to the protection of individual and community interests

Unit 17  Continuing professional development

• 17.1 Identify, record and analyse personal development aims and progress
• 17.2 Allocate and monitor the progress and quality of work in your area of responsibility
• 17.3 Contribute to advances in occupational knowledge and practice