Qualifications Framework level

EQF level

European Qualifications Framework (EQF) has 8 levels (1 – the lowest, 8 – the highest).

Levels reflect the complexity level of acquired knowledge, skills and competences (learning outcomes).


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LQF level

Latvian Qualifications Framework (LQF) has 8 levels (1 – the lowest, 8 – the highest).

Levels reflect the complexity level of acquired knowledge, skills and competences (learning outcomes).

LQF covers stages of education starting from the basic education (level 1 – special basic education) to the highest education (level 8 – doctoral studies).


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Level of professional qualification
Latvia has a system of five professional qualifications levels (PQL, 1 – the lowest, 5 – the highest).

PQL system covers only professional qualifications (basic education, secondary and higher education stages).

PQL reflects readiness of a person to perform work of certain stage of complexity and responsibility.
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Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes are knowledge, skills and competences acquired during a certain period of learning.

In Latvia, learning outcomes are stipulated by state education standards and occupational standards (for the professional qualifications).

Learning outcomes of higher education are defined by higher education institutions.


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– Able to perform intellectual operations at the level of knowledge, understanding, use and simple analysis.
– Uses knowledge and theoretical understanding in wide-ranging complex activities.
– Able to obtain and evaluate information independently.
– Uses wide-ranging knowledge and skills for the solution of well-formulated, but unknown and unforeseeable problems.
– Has detailed, theoretical knowledge and understanding corresponding to the professional qualification.
– Has wide-ranging skills and proficiency essential for the profession corresponding to the professional qualification.
– Able to perform the work of executor independently, including the planning and supervision of the work to be performed.
– Knows and is able to apply appropriate technologies.
– Able to apply information acquisition and processing technologies in professional activity.
– Latvian language proficiency developed and foreign language(-s) proficiency improved.
– Knows and understands links between historical developments of their county, Latvia, Europe and world.
– Able to apply mathematical knowledge and skills in professional work.
– Able to apply knowledge about the facts and laws of natural sciences in professional activity.
– Able to evaluate the processes occurring in nature and society and comprehend them in their system and development.
– Understands the principle of coherence of ecological space and observes the environmental protection requirements in professional activity.
– Understands the basic principles of market economy.
– Able to find their place in the economic structures of society and able to operate therein.
– Understands the economic relationship between employer and employee and knows the relevant legislation.
– Has a conception of the political structure of the European Union, as well as of the principles of single economic area and the mobility of the labour force.
– Evaluates their abilities adequately.
– Plans activity in compliance with circumstances, possibilities and their abilities.
– Plans time in accordance with task.
– Able to make justified choice and make a decision independently in familiar and less familiar circumstances.
– Able to answer for the quantitative and qualitative result of their professional activities, assumes partial responsibility for the work performed by others.
– Is determined, systematic and rational when working.
– Is careful and accurate.
– Able to assume initiative.

Building construction technician

  • Knowledge

    1. The KNOWLEDGE at the level of notion:
    1.1. informative databases;
    1.2. design computer software;
    1.3. structural analysis and material resistance;
    1.4. telecommunication installation works;
    1.5. construction project planning software;
    1.6. land works;
    1.7. concreting;
    1.8. finishing works;
    1.9. civil protection;
    1.10. evaluating procedure for construction product compliance;
    1.11. electrical equipment;
    1.12. basic principles of sustainable construction;
    1.13. environment accessibility.
    2. The KNOWLEDGE at the level of understanding:
    2.1. hierarchy and system of the laws and regulations;
    2.2. construction standards;
    2.3. composition of the building design;
    2.4. construction work organization;
    2.5. construction equipment;
    2.6. building parts;
    2.7. construction labour intensity and costs (estimates);
    2.8. construction mounting works;
    2.9. basics of communication;
    2.10. professional terminology in the official language and one foreign language.
    3. The KNOWLEDGE at the level of use:
    3.1. duties, rights and responsibility of the construction participants;
    3.2. construction drawings;
    3.3. construction terms and graphical symbols;
    3.4. construction materials and products;
    3.5. construction work technologies;
    3.6. building structural contractions;
    3.7. connecting methods and types of building structure construction;
    3.8. construction mounting works;
    3.9. bricklaying;
    3.10. carpentry;
    3.11. roofing works;
    3.12. geodesy;
    3.13. construction work equipment and tools;
    3.14. measuring tools and instruments;
    3.15. labour protection requirements (use and types of labour protection products, workplace ergonomics, first aid);
    3.16. fire safety requirements, fire prevention tools and their use;
    3.17. standards of the legal employment relations;
    3.18. requirements of the environmental protection;
    3.19. principles of the professional and general ethics;
    3.20. office applications and design computer software;
    3.21. official language;
    3.22. one foreign language at the professional communication level.

  • Skills

    1. To know and observe the requirements of the construction laws and regulations in the practical work.
    2. To use construction terms and signs used in drawings during professional communication and in the documents.
    3. To draw building plans, facades, cuts and building structure units.
    4. To use office software applications for document preparation and design computer programs for drawing.
    5. To prepare operational timetables according to the work calendar plan and network schedule.
    6. To know building construction technologies.  
    7. To organize, manage, and perform independently building structure mounting, carpentry and roofing works.
    8. To differentiate the functional meaning and uses of construction products.
    9. To use construction product cultivation methods.
    10. To build construction products according to a construction project.
    11. To prepare specifications for the order of the necessary quantity of construction materials and products on construction sites.
    12. To evaluate the quality of construction products and their compliance with an intended construction project.
    13. To use technical solutions intended in the construction project.
    14. To determine labour qualifications and consumption needed for construction work performance.
    15. To choose appropriate equipment and work instruments.
    16. To organize and manage resettlement of construction materials and products on the construction sites.
    17. To understand the interactions of building structures.  
    18. To connect different building structures.
    19. To use geodetic and other measuring tools and instruments on construction sites.
    20. To measure and enumerate completed building works.
    21. To understand the principles of documenting covered works in the field of construction.
    22. To evaluate the consequences of allowed non-compliance and  prevent allowed non-compliance according to construction project.
    23. To use construction quality control system.
    24. To organize repair of non-compliant building work according to construction project.
    25. To accept corrected construction works from the performers.
    26. To have knowledge of the duties, rights, and responsibilities of participants in the construction project during the construction process.
    27. To cobserve the internal regulations of the construction company and construction site.
    28. To observe the requirements of the laws and regulations when managing daily work.
    29. To arrange safe, ergonomically and technologically correct workplaces.
    30. To use equipment according to the specific type of construction work.
    31. To identify the possible risks at the workplace.
    32. To meet the requirements of Occupational Health and Safety Regulations.
    33. To use personal and collective labour protection products.
    34. To act accordingly in emergency situations and provide the first aid.
    35. To identify hazardous construction waste.
    36. To organize collection of construction waste.
    37. To observe the requirements of the environmental protection laws and regulations.
    38. To observe the requirements of the fire safety laws and regulations.
    39. To explain work agenda, work tasks, duties, and rights to employees.
    40. To communicate with other construction participants and substantiate your viewpoint.
    41. To organize your own work independently, to analyze work progress, to take responsibility for the results of your work.
    42. To comply with legal labour relation standards.
    43. To speak in the official language.
    44. To speak in one foreign language at the professional communication level.
    45. To observe the principles of professional and general ethics.
    46. To use professional terminology in the official language and one foreign language.

  • Competences/ autonomy

    1. Ability to use requirements of the laws and regulations in construction works.
    2. Ability to read and use construction projects in one’s daily work.
    3. Knowledge of the types of building work in the field of building construction, technologies and implementation specifics according to sustainable construction principles.
    4. Knowledge of organizing a work calendar plan and network schedule, ability to prepare an appropriate operational timetable, draw.
    5. Ability to identify labour consumption and labour qualification necessary for building construction.
    6. Ability to determine the quantity of the building materials and products necessary for the planned building performance in the building construction (earth, concrete, building construction assembly, bricklayer, carpentry, roofing, and finishing works), choose appropriate working instruments and equipment.
    7. Ability to arrange a safe and ergonomic workplace, to use the necessary equipment and instruments to perform construction work.
    8. Ability to use personal and collective labour protection products.
    9. Ability to understand the interaction of building constructions and various building structure connections.  
    10. Ability to evaluate the quality of construction materials and products.
    11. Ability to evaluate building product compliance with specified parameters in the construction project.
    12. Ability to organize and manage construction works (building construction assemblies, masonry, carpentry and roofing works).
    13. Ability to measure the performed building works.
    14. Ability to use geodetic and other measuring tools and instruments.
    15. Ability to evaluate quality of the performed construction works.
    16. Ability to evaluate the consequences of allowed non-compliance in building construction works, act in a timely manner and organize prevention of the allowed discrepancies.
    17. Ability to identify environmentally hazardous construction waste and to organize its collection on construction sites upon necessity.
    18. Ability to use safe working techniques and comply with labour protection, fire safety and environmental protection regulation requirements.
    19. Ability to comply with the principles of professional and general ethics.
    20. Ability to communicate with employees and explain the agenda and tasks, duties, and rights to them.
    21. Ability to motivate employees to perform high quality construction works.
    22. Ability to communicate in the official language and one foreign language.
    23. Ability to act accordingly in emergency situations and provide the first aid.
    24. Ability to use professional terminology in the official language and one foreign language.
    25. Ability to comply with legal labour relation standards.
    26. TAbility to perform one’s own duties independently and take responsibility for the results of the own work and the work results of the staff under supervision.

Qualification acquisition requirements

Previous education
Certificate of general secondary education
Ways to acquire 
Qualifications can be acquired in the framework of education programs or in the evaluation and recognition of non-formal knowledge, skills and competences acquired (in vocational education LKI Levels 2-4).
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Formal (through education programmes)
ECTS credit points 
The unit of the volume of Latvian higher education studies - 1 credit point corresponds to one week of study work in full-time studies (40 credit points per study year).

1 The credit point of Latvia corresponds to 1,5 ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) credit point.
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Duration of study 
Duration of qualification in full-time studies
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1,5 years

Qualification document

Awarding body

Vocational basic and secondary education institution

- Saldus Technical School

Liquidated/Reorganised/Changed title and\or type:

- Saldus Vocational Secondary School

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Qualifications Framework level

EQF level

European Qualifications Framework (EQF) has 8 levels (1 – the lowest, 8 – the highest).

Levels reflect the complexity level of acquired knowledge, skills and competences (learning outcomes).


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LQF level

Latvian Qualifications Framework (LQF) has 8 levels (1 – the lowest, 8 – the highest).

Levels reflect the complexity level of acquired knowledge, skills and competences (learning outcomes).

LQF covers stages of education starting from the basic education (level 1 – special basic education) to the highest education (level 8 – doctoral studies).


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Level of professional qualification

Latvia has a system of five professional qualifications levels (PQL, 1 – the lowest, 5 – the highest).

PQL system covers only professional qualifications (basic education, secondary and higher education stages).

PQL reflects readiness of a person to perform work of certain stage of complexity and responsibility.


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Qualification field, stage and type

Thematic field (ISCED 2013)
International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) developed by UNESCO.
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Architecture and construction (073)

Detailed field: (ISCED 2013)

Building and civil engineering (0732)

Education
Stages of Latvian education system included in the LQF:
- basic education
- secondary education
- higher education
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Secondary education

Qualification type
ITypes of Latvian education:
-General education
-Professional education
-Academic education
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Vocational

Full or partial

Full qualification

Other information

National Education Information System

National Database of Education Opportunities

Active qualification

Last changes: 15.07.2020

Posted: 07.05.2016