Advancing Setting Out Skills Across The Industry
Advancing Setting Out Skills Across The Industry
Founded by Saffron Grant, a BEng Civil Engineer with 28 years in the industry and author of the setting out textbook many site engineers now learn from, our Birmingham courses give complete beginners and experienced engineers alike the practical skills and confidence to work with total stations and levels on any site.
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Industry Textbook
By Founder Saffron Grant
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Birmingham Courses
9+ UK Locations
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UK & Ireland Corporate Delivery
Birmingham is currently home to the construction of Curzon Street, the HS2 terminus station taking shape in the city centre, one of the largest live infrastructure schemes in the UK. Alongside this sits a broader West Midlands construction sector built on housebuilding, civils and commercial development across Solihull, Wolverhampton, Dudley and Walsall.
We work with contractors, housebuilders and civil engineering firms across the city, as well as individuals funding their own training to break into or progress within the industry. Whether you’re setting out foundations near the Curzon Street site, working on a housing scheme in Solihull, or supporting infrastructure near the M6 or M42, our courses are designed to reflect the reality of a live Birmingham construction site.
Whether you’re building a career on Birmingham sites or developing your company’s workforce across the West Midlands, there’s a route built for where you are.
Build a career in site engineering with training shaped around real Birmingham sites, in a city where major infrastructure work sits alongside a steady pipeline of housebuilding and commercial construction. Our setting out courses give you the practical skills, qualifications and confidence to get hired and progress.
Cut down on setting out errors on site, build genuine competence across your team, and reduce reliance on external engineers. Our corporate training solutions can be delivered at our Birmingham base or on-site anywhere across the West Midlands, ideal for contractors managing multiple engineers or a graduate intake.
Partner with us to support surveying modules at colleges and universities across the West Midlands, giving your students industry-standard, practical setting out training from a trusted UK provider.
We work with contractors, housebuilders and civil engineering firms across the city, as well as individuals funding their own training to break into or progress within the industry. Whether you’re setting out foundations near the Curzon Street site, working on a housing scheme in Solihull, or supporting infrastructure near the M6 or M42, our courses are designed to reflect the reality of a live Birmingham construction site.
Our most popular course and the one most Birmingham delegates start with. A full week covering total stations, levels and the practical basics every site engineer needs, taught in small groups so everyone gets genuine hands-on time with the kit.
For engineers who already have site experience and want a recognised qualification to support progression into a senior site engineer role, particularly relevant given the competence requirements now expected under the Building Safety Act.
A five-day programme for those already working on site who want to sharpen technique and speed, well suited to the demands of large infrastructure and commercial schemes across the city.
Two days covering drawing interpretation and setting out data in AutoCAD, useful for engineers working alongside design teams on Birmingham’s larger infrastructure and commercial projects.
Responsive hands-on tuition, real site scenarios, and ongoing support — here’s what makes our setting out training different.
Choose a scheduled date at our Birmingham location or enquire about in-house training delivered at your site anywhere across the West Midlands.
All setting out training uses professional robotic total stations. Small groups mean every learner gets proper hands-on time throughout the week.
Walk away with a CITB Assured certificate, your achievement recorded on the CTR, a copy of our textbook, and lifetime access to our eLearning platform and community.
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Whether you’re building a career on Birmingham sites or developing your company’s workforce across the West Midlands, there’s a route built for where you are.
We focus on building the real-world setting out skills and confidence Birmingham’s site engineers need to perform from day one. Our training is designed around outcomes, not attendance records.
Learning doesn’t stop when the course ends. Every delegate on our Birmingham courses gets ongoing access to our eLearning platform and community forum, plus the chance to attend future refresher courses and practice days at no extra cost.
We work with colleges and universities across the West Midlands on setting out and construction surveying modules, a level of academic credibility most commercial training providers can’t claim.
Birmingham is one of 10 UK and Ireland locations where we run public setting out courses, alongside London, Kent, Glasgow, Warrington, Newcastle, Leeds, Bristol, Belfast and Dublin. Most competitors operate from a single base.
We train on multiple total station types, not just one, so Birmingham engineers are ready for whatever instrument they find on any construction site across the West Midlands.
Our ProQual Diploma in Engineering Surveying is aligned to the competence-proving requirements that have become critical since the Building Safety Act, helping Birmingham contractors future-proof their workforce today.
5/5 Rated by 50+ happy learners
We’ve answered the most common ones to help you plan with confidence.
Yes, Birmingham is one of our 10 UK and Ireland course locations, with scheduled dates run regularly alongside in-house delivery across the West Midlands.
Yes, we regularly deliver in-house setting out training for contractors and housebuilders across Birmingham and the wider West Midlands. This works well for training several engineers or a graduate intake together.
Alongside Birmingham itself, we regularly see delegates from Solihull, West Bromwich, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Walsall and Sutton Coldfield.
None. Our 5-Day Setting Out Course is designed for complete beginners as well as those refreshing existing skills, with small groups so everyone gets equipment time regardless of starting level.
If you’re new to site engineering, start with the 5-Day Setting Out Course. If you’re already on site and want to progress, look at the ProQual Diploma in Engineering Surveying or our Enhanced Setting Out Skills course.
Our Birmingham courses reflect the scale of groundworks and setting out common to the West Midland’s large distribution and industrial schemes.
Attend any course again, any time, completely free. No other training provider offers this as standard.
Every learner leaves our 5-day setting out engineer course with our highly regarded text book and ongoing access to our eLearning platform.
Access to the SOFC Site Engineer's Hub - our active online community - plus direct trainer access when questions come up on site.
5/5 Rated by 50+ happy learners
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