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.

Transport Structures Construction Technician

  • Knowledge

    PROFESSIONAL knowledge
    At the comprehension level:
    1. Legislation and standards (LVS) of the construction industry (transport structures).
    2. Composition of the work performance design.
    3. Types of transport structures, specific features of installation.
    4. Types of construction works for transport structures.
    5. Stages of performance of construction works for transport structures.
    6. Cost estimation of construction works for transport structures.
    7. Instructions for the construction and use of the communication system.
    8. Instructions for the construction and use of electrical systems.
    9. Instructions for the construction and use of water-supply and sewage systems.
    10. Regulatory framework for accounting work time.
    11. Specific conditions for accounting of bulk cargo.
    12. Content of declarations of conformity of materials and of performance.
    13. Specific features of the construction work estimates.
    At the application level:
    1. Types, technologies and organisation of construction works
    2. Types of construction materials and construction products and technologies for their use.
    3. Designations used in the building design.
    4. Terminology of the construction industry.
    5. Designations used in the building design, cartographic and topographic symbols.
    6. Geodetic network designations for transport structures.
    7. Types and use of geodetic instruments.
    8. Types of engineering communications and their protection areas.
    9. Types, technologies and organisation of construction works and construction materials.
    10. Requirements for preparation and elaboration of documents.
    11. Types of construction materials, requirements concerning their placement, storage and application for transport structures.
    12. Technology and organisation of construction works for transport structures.
    13. Types of construction products and their applicability for transport structures.
    14. Use of construction machinery, instruments and equipment for the transport structures construction works.
    15. Technical rules for the connection of electricity and communications.
    16. Technical rules for the connection of water-supply and sewage.
    17. Types of construction materials, requirements concerning their placement, storage and application.
    18. Characteristics of construction materials and their specific features.
    19. Types of road signs and traffic equipment.
    20. Instructions for the installation of road signs and traffic equipment.
    21. Legislative framework for equipping the workplace on roads
    22. Road traffic regulations.
    23. Cartographic and topographic symbols.
    24. Use of geodetic instruments with a technical precision class.
    25. Specialised geodetic software applications.
    26. Cartographic and topographic symbols.
    27. Use of geodetic instruments with a technical precision class.
    28. Requirements for equipping the workplace of engineering personnel.
    29. Hygiene requirements in construction.
    30. Construction technology.
    31. Types and technologies of use of construction machinery and work tools.
    32. Applicability of construction products and construction materials for transport structures.
    33. Construction technologies for transport structures.
    34. Types of accounts of work time.
    35. Types of measuring devices and their use.
    36. Methods for measuring the amount of the works performed.
    37. Applicability of construction products and construction materials for transport structures.
    38. Methods for the assessment of quality and conformity of construction products and construction materials.
    39. Legal regulations on laboratory testing of quality and conformity of construction materials.
    40. Documents proving the conformity of construction materials.
    41. Measuring devices and quality control devices and their use.
    42. Legal regulations on testing of quality and conformity of construction materials.
    43. Systems for the assessment of conformity of construction materials.
    44. Characteristics of construction materials for transport structures.
    45. Basic principles of statistical evaluation.
    46. Types and use of measuring instruments and measuring devices.
    47. Types of the materials accompanying documents.
    48. Requirements for preparation and elaboration of documents.
    49. Cartographic and topographic symbols.
    50. Laws and regulations for the performance of hidden works.
    51. Basics of technical drawing.
    52. Requirements for elaboration of construction volume certificates.
    53. Requirements for making up the building site’s volumes containing executable documentation.
    GENERAL knowledge
    At the concept level:
    1. Legal relations.
    2. Legal provisions specified in the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia in the view of a society subject to the rule of law and a civil society.
    3. Organisation of the labour protection system
    4. Principles of planning and decision-making.
    At the comprehension level:
    1. Vocabulary, grammar, and language functions of the official language and foreign language, types of verbal interaction. Styles, characteristics of intonation, and the versatility of communication of the official language and foreign language in different contexts.
    2. Laws and regulations regarding information technologies.
    3. Operating principles of computer and office equipment.
    4. Rights, obligations, and liability of an individual.
    5. Key issues of labour law.
    6. Essence of the civil society.
    7. Team creation.
    8. Principles for promoting cooperation.
    9. Role of employee motivation and talent management for enhancing the work quality
    At the application level:
    1. Official language.
    2. One foreign language.
    3. Intercultural interaction.
    4. Mathematical methods and tools.
    5. Mathematical calculations and work with tables.
    6. Application software according to the work task.
    7. Working with office equipment.
    8. Information systems security.
    9. Computer security software.
    10. Data protection measures.
    11. Contents of the employment contract.
    12. Fire safety and electrical safety requirements at the workplace.
    13. Labour protection requirements at the workplace.
    14. Types of personal and collective protective equipment and its use.
    15. Monitoring of the technical condition of protective resources and safety appliances.
    16. Ergonomic work practices and equipment.
    17. Groups of health risk factors, their effects, measures to prevent and mitigate risks.
    18. Environmental protection requirements in the relevant sector.
    19. Environmental protection measures, means to implement them.
    20. Action in the event of various hazards.
    21. Principles of the ABC scheme and its use.
    22. Methods and means of providing first aid.
    23. Health condition requirements for the performance of specific work duties.
    24. Groups of health risk factors, their effects, measures to prevent and mitigate risks.
    25. Preventive measures for the prevention of occupational risk factors.
    26. Activities to promote health at the workplace.
    27. Time planning techniques.
    28. Effective communication and collaboration techniques.
    29. Business communication process.
    30. Learning strategies.
    31. Self-assessment principles.

  • Skills

    PROFESSIONAL skills
    1. To read the building design.
    2. To recognize designations in technical drawings.
    3. To inspect engineering communications on-site.
    4. To read cartographic and topographical documentation.
    5. To recognise the temporary geodetic network of the transport structure’s building site.
    6. To use the technical geodetic tools in an accurate manner
    7. To coordinate excavation and other work permissions in the responsible institutions.
    8. To inform the land owners on commencement of construction works.
    9. To take part in selection of technologies and methods for the construction of a transport structure.
    10. To plan locations for materials on the transport structure’s site.
    11. To determine work technologies, labour intensity and deadlines
    12. To identify the necessary material and technical resources.
    13. To determine the allocation of resources of construction products according to the determined stages of work execution.
    14. To identify the sequence of the interrelated works on site.
    15. To participate in site planning meetings.
    16. To get the executors acquainted with the applicable construction practices and methods (including
    17. use of construction machinery, tools and equipment).
    18. To identify types of connection of the necessary engineering communications and the procedure for their use.
    19. To prepare temporary infrastructure for communication facilities and electricity connection.
    20. To prepare temporary infrastructure for water-supply and sewage connection.
    21. To determine the maintenance procedure for access roads.
    22. To determine the procedure for traffic management.
    23. To apply traffic management according to the approved scheme.
    24. To find geodetic control points on site.
    25. To provide control network points.
    26. To register control network points in the executable documentation.
    27. To make the necessary calculations to outline the parameters of the transport structure.
    28. To execute the outlined parameters of the transport structure.
    29. To organise installation of the mobile office and mobile residential modules and their connection to engineering communication.
    30. To organise installation of the elements of equipment required to meet sanitary, fire safety, and electrical safety requirements.
    31. To select the work force and technical resources to perform the work.
    32. To rationally use technical and work force resources.
    33. To identify necessary and technology-compatible construction materials, construction products, mechanisms and equipment.
    34. To control the performance of works according to the task given.
    35. To organise relocation of construction materials and construction products on site.
    36. To coordinate own actions with other persons involved in the process.
    37. To record the working time of the performers of construction works.
    38. To draw up reports on the working time of the performers of construction works.
    39. To measure the construction works performed.
    40. To calculate the volume of the construction works performed.
    41. To record the measurements and volume calculations.
    42. To assess the conformity of the construction works performed to the quality requirements.
    43. To assess the compliance of construction products and construction materials to the requirements specified in the building design.
    44. To correct inconsistencies appeared during the work performance process.
    45. To participate in sampling and/or testing of construction materials.
    46. To record the process of quality and conformity testing of construction materials.
    47. To evaluate the scope of inconsistencies and their significance.
    48. To report the test results to the manager.
    49. To assess material conformity to the accompanying documents.
    50. To keep records of the amount of construction material.
    51. To prepare reports on the flow of construction materials.
    52. To check the conformity of the quality documents to the materials supplied.
    53. To systematise the materials accompanying documents
    54. To read the design and executable schemes.
    55. To compare the sizes designed and built.
    56. To draw up hidden works reports and opinions.
    57. To draw up supplements to the hidden works reports.
    58. To count the presentable and constructed volumes.
    59. To record the presentable volumes in the construction works certificate.
    60. To arrange the executable documentation in the order specified.
    61. To submit the executable documentation to the manager for coordination.
    GENERAL Skills
    1. To communicate in the official language.
    2. To communicate in one foreign language both orally and in writing.
    3. To make correlations.
    4. To model the procedure regarding the solution of the planned task.
    5. To process information purposefully by selecting the most appropriate solution.
    6. To exchange information in a responsible manner.
    7. To take data protection measures.
    8. To independently draw up documents and organise the document flow by means of the appropriate software.
    9. To independently find the necessary information in the internet resources and data storage devices.
    10. To perform critical evaluation of information reliability.
    11. To comply with labour law.
    12. To comply with the company’s internal labour regulations.
    13. To be aware of own responsibility in view of the civil society.
    14. To conscientiously carry out work as specified in the job description.
    15. To control safe use of electrical equipment.
    16. To control compliance with fire safety regulations.
    17. To organise the workplace in compliance with the labour protection requirements.
    18. To ensure the use of protective equipment.
    19. To monitor the compliance of protective equipment.
    20. To use environmentally friendly technology.
    21. To take measures to reduce the consumption of energy and other resources and amount of waste.
    22. To assess the emergency situation.
    23. To organise prevention of causes of accidents.
    24. To provide first aid.
    25. To assess the relationship between mental overload, physical and mental health.
    26. To control own health and the impact of environmental risk factors on it.
    27. To assess the effects of environmental risk factors on health.
    28. To work in a team by being aware of own responsibility when performing a joint task.
    29. To plan own time and the time of the team in a reasonable manner.
    30. To communicate with the persons and institutions involved in the work process.
    31. To assess own professional experience and career development options.
    32. To perform critical assessment of the obtained information and use it when carrying out the professional activity.
    33. To use different learning strategies.

  • Competences/ autonomy

    PROFESSIONAL competences
    1. Ability to comprehend the building design, technical schemes, legislation of the construction industry and standards for transport structures.
    2. Ability to determine the precise location of the transport structure in-situ and assess the current condition of the structure.
    3. Ability to coordinate permissions for excavation works and other works under a particular building design.
    4. Ability to link the preliminary plan of the transport structure to the planning of resources.
    5. Ability to plan the resources in an efficient manner in compliance with the construction standards, the amount of the work to be carried out, and the actual situation on site.
    6. Ability to ensure the consequent performance of the interrelated works on the transport structure’s site according to the project.
    7. Ability to independently organise the required temporary infrastructure to perform the transport structure construction works and maintenance works on sites.
    8. Ability to efficiently plan and allocate material and technical resources on site.
    9. Ability to independently organise and maintain traffic on sites where transport structure construction works and maintenance works are performed.
    10. Ability to organise the creation of a geodetic control network on the transport structure site using geodetic and other measuring devices and instruments.
    11. Ability to manage and supervise transport structure measuring and demarcation works on site according to the building design.
    12. Ability to organise the installation of the building site’s necessary equipment elements and their connection to communications in compliance with hygiene, fire safety and electrical safety requirements.
    13. Ability to organise the transport structures construction works rationally using the resources available to perform the works according to the chosen type of work technology.
    14. Ability to ensure the course of technological processes for construction of the transport structure.
    15. Ability to record the working time of the performers of construction works on the transport structure’s site in accordance with the specified type of working time recording.
    16. Ability to assess the amount and quality of the works performed and correct inconsistencies appeared during the work performance process.
    17. Ability to organise and assess laboratory testing of quality and conformity of construction materials.
    18. Ability to precisely account of construction materials by selecting appropriate measuring instruments and calculation methods.
    19. Ability to compile and systematise documents certifying the quantity and quality of the materials supplied.
    20. Ability to to verify the compliance of the executable scheme with to the designed documentation, keeping records of the permissible tolerances.
    21. Ability to draw up hidden works reports in accordance with the regulatory framework.
    22. Ability to prepare a precise and justified construction volume certificate.
    23. Ability to to prepare the building’s site executable documentation in a timely manner and maintain the flow of requested documents.
    GENERAL competencies
    1. Ability to communicate in the official language both orally and in writing.
    2. Ability to communicate in one foreign language.
    3. Ability to use mathematical thinking when modelling work situations and planning the performance of the work task.
    4. Ability to use and select, in a confident and safe manner, information and communication technologies to perform the work task.
    5. Ability to comply with the employment relationship provisions.
    6. Ability to supervise fire safety and electrical safety requirements at the workplace.
    7. Ability to supervise the implementation of the labour protection measures on site.
    8. Ability to fulfil work tasks in accordance with the environmental protection requirements.
    9. Ability to act responsibly in emergency situations and provide first aid if needed.
    10. Ability to take responsibility for working abilities by assessing health risk factors.
    11. Ability to identify the adverse effects of the work conditions on health
    12. Ability to be effectively involved in teamwork.
    13. Ability to independently plan time by fulfilling the task individually or in a team.
    14. Ability to collaborate with the persons and institutions involved in the work process.
    15. Ability to plan and take decisions upon development of professional career.

Qualification acquisition requirements

Previous education
Certificate of general basic 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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4 years

Qualification document

Awarding body

Type of awarding bodies:

- Saldus Technical School

- Smiltene Technical 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

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: DIPLOMA OF VOCATIONAL SECONDARY EDUCATION with professional qualification: Road Construction Technician , DIPLOMA OF VOCATIONAL SECONDARY EDUCATION with professional qualification: Road Construction Technician , Certificate of professional qualification: Building Structure Assembler , Certificate of professional qualification: Building Assembler with Specialisation Metal Structure Assembler; Reinforced Concrete Constructions Assembler; Glazed Construction Assembler; Wood Construction Assembler , Certificate of professional qualification: Reinforced Concrete Building Structure a Assembler , Certificate of professional qualification: Building Assembler with Specialization: Wood Building Assembler , Certificate of professional qualification: Building Assembler with Specialization: Metal Building Assembler , Certificate of professional qualification: Building Assembler with Specialization: Glazed Building Assembler , DIPLOMA OF VOCATIONAL SECONDARY EDUCATION with professional qualification: Hydro-structure Construction Technician , DIPLOMA OF VOCATIONAL SECONDARY EDUCATION with professional qualification: Hydro-structure Construction Technician , DIPLOMA OF FIRST LEVEL PROFESSIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION with professional qualification: Building Contractor , DIPLOMA OF VOCATIONAL SECONDARY EDUCATION with professional qualification: Construction and Road Building Machines Technician , DIPLOMA OF VOCATIONAL SECONDARY EDUCATION with professional qualification: Construction and Road Building Machines Technician

Link to the descriptions of the Sector Qualifications Structure levels

Other information

National Education Information System

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Last changes: 29.10.2024

Posted: 21.04.2021