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
Till 1 august 2022 in Latvia had 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.

Dry construction technician

  • Knowledge

    1. The KNOWLEDGE at the level of notion:
    1.1. construction equipment;
    1.2. working time regulations;
    1.3. accessibility of the environment;
    1.4. basic principles of sustainable construction;
    1.5. evaluation progress of construction product compliance;
    1.6. ergonomics.
    2. The KNOWLEDGE at the level of undeerstanding:
    2.1. constructional drawings;
    2.2. technical mathematical;
    2.3. building physics;
    2.4. construction normative;
    2.5. network timetable or calendar plan;
    2.6. acoustic project;
    2.7. fire safety project;
    2.8. energy audit;
    2.9. quality requirements;
    2.10. project documentation;
    2.11. history of architectural and design styles;
    2.12. basics of communication basics;
    2.13. 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. dry construction work technologies;
    3.3. building design;
    3.4. dry construction instruments;
    3.5. construction materials;
    3.6. work organization on the construction sites;
    3.7. consumption of materials, rates, time norms;
    3.8. dry construction and plastering machines;
    3.9. metal frame profiles and isolation materials;
    3.10. sketches and labour drawing;
    3.11. design project;
    3.12. labour protection (labour protection products, safe work techniques, personal and collective labour protection products, first aid);
    3.13. electrical safety and fire safety, fire prevention measures and practical uses;
    3.14. information technologies;
    3.15. the principles of professional and general ethics;
    3.16. environmental protection;
    3.17. legal labour relation standards;
    3.18. the official language;
    3.19. one foreign language at a professional communication level.

  • Skills

    1 To identify and demarcate the own working area.
    2. To move construction materials on the construction sites.
    3. To set up and disassemble the scaffolding.
    4. To provide electricity and water connections for direct work organization.
    5. To plan uses of materials and instruments according to the work schedule.
    6. To evaluate hazard situations on the construction sites and take preventive measures.  
    7. To organize material and construction equipment delivery in the necessary terms.
    8. To organize the work of dry construction mounting employees according to qualification.
    9. To compose a network timetable or calendar plan according to competence.
    10. To perform estimation works (calculate material consumption and labour intensive).
    11. To recognize and use normative documents in a construction project and construction, also construction regulating normative.
    12. To use specific object documents (contracts).
    13. To evaluate compliance of physical building indicators.
    14. To know technical documentation in construction materials and projects.
    15. To test qualification compliance of dry construction mounting employees.
    16. To set up dry construction structures.
    17. To connect dry construction components.
    18. To work with dry construction and plastering machines, machine tools, instruments and construction materials (plasterboard, metal frame profiles and isolation materials, gypsum, gypsum mouldings and decorative design elements).
    19. To perform different techniques and levels of puttying.
    20. To perform finishing work according to material technological description.
    21. To plaster with putty and putty coating machine.
    22. To evaluate the qualitative result of dry construction work phases.
    23. To measure completed amount of dry construction work.
    24. To prepare a report of dry construction work completed.
    25. To coordinate this report with your direct supervisor.
    26. To comply with design project requirements.
    27. To use measuring instruments.
    28. To choose construction materials according to the declaration of performance and specifications of architectural and design technical project.
    29. To evaluate the life cycle of construction materials and final product.
    30. To know the duties, rights, and responsibilities of construction participants during the building process.
    31. To use safe work techniques.
    32. To comply with the requirements of Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, to use personal and collective labour protection products.
    33. To provide practical training for dry construction assemblers.
    34. To provide first aid.
    35. To evaluate hazards in emergency situations and possible consequences, act in non-standard situations.
    36. To use a network, select necessary information, and use it in your daily work.
    37. To comply with the principles of professional and general ethics.
    38. To use professional terminology in the official language and one foreign language.
    39. To speak in the official language.
    40. To speak in one foreign language at a professional communication level.
    41. To organize the own work independently, to analyze work progress, to take responsibility for the results of your work.
    42. To comply with environmental protection requirements.
    43. To comply with legal labour relation standards.

  • Competences/ autonomy

    1. The ability to organize dry construction works by restricting your own work area, arranging and planning daily work.
    2. The ability to comply with labour protection, evaluate hazard situation on the construction sites, take preventive measures.  
    3. The ability to plan, estimate, and organize necessary dry construction work resources according to competence (construction materials, equipment, human resources) on the construction sites.
    4. The ability to comply with time limits according to working schedule and organize your own working hours and the working hours of other dry construction mounting employees.
    5. The ability to evaluate qualification of dry construction mounting employees according to supporting documents and actual skills.
    6. The knowledge of normative documents for construction projects and construction, to comply with technical and design project requirements, to evaluate and control documentation of construction materials (declarations).
    7. The ability to evaluate quantitative, technical, physical, and design requirements during project realization.
    8. The ability to evaluate and connect dry construction system components.
    9. The ability to determine types of dry construction, to install dry construction structures by using appropriate machine tools, instruments, and construction materials.
    10. The ability to perform necessary finishing work, different techniques and levels of puttying works, plaster with putty and putty coating machine according to material technological description.
    11. The ability to comply with sustainable construction requirements by choosing construction materials according to the declaration of performance and specifications of architectural and design technical project evaluating the life cycles of construction materials and the final product.
    12. The ability to enumerate consumed resources by using measuring instruments, to perform quantitative survey and physical building evaluation of completed work, also to prepare acts regarding completed works.
    13. The ability to perform a quality check, approval, and coordination with direct supervisor at each step of the completed work phase.
    14. The ability to use construction field normative documents in your daily work and follow up their completion.
    15. The ability to improve knowledge and use it in practice.
    16. The ability to provide training for new employees by explaining and demonstrating technological work processes and basic skills of the profession.
    17. The ability to comply with the requirements of Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, use personal and collective labour protection products.
    18. The ability to provide first aid.
    19. The ability to comply with legal labour relation standards.
    20. The ability to understand and comply with environmental protection requirements and to work without harming the environment.
    21. The ability to work independently and take responsibility for the results of your work.
    22. The ability to comply with the principles of professional and general ethics.
    23. The ability to use professional terminology in the official language and one foreign language.
    24. The ability to communicate in the official language and one foreign language.

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)
Duration of study 
Duration of qualification in full-time studies
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1,5, 2 or 3 years

Qualification document

Awarding body

Vocational basic and secondary education institution

- Latgales industriālais tehnikums

Type of awarding bodies:

- Latgales Industriālais tehnikums

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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

Till 1 august 2022 in Latvia had 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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LQF PQ level:

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Theoretical and practical training corresponding to the LQF levels, characterized by the learning outcomes that can be achieved at the relevant level, which gives the opportunity to perform work corresponding to a certain level 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

Sector Qualifications Structure: Construction sector

Kvalifikācijas tips:
Base qualification:
Connected to: Certificate of professional qualification: Dry Building Assembler

Link to the descriptions of the Sector Qualifications Structure levels

Other information

National Education Information System

Active qualification

Last changes: 11.08.2025

Posted: 27.11.2019