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 Bristol 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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Bristol Courses
9+ UK Locations
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UK & Ireland Corporate Delivery
Bristol is currently the site of Temple Quarter, a regeneration scheme spanning over 130 hectares around Temple Meads station that’s set to deliver up to 10,000 new homes, thousands of jobs and major commercial space, one of the UK’s largest city-centre regeneration projects. Alongside it sits the city’s established housebuilding, civils and commercial construction sector.
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 Temple Meads, working on a housing scheme elsewhere in the city, or supporting infrastructure near the M32 or M4, our courses are designed to reflect the reality of a live Bristol construction site.
Whether you’re building a career on Bristol sites or developing your company’s workforce across the West of England, there’s a route built for where you are.
Build a career in site engineering with training shaped around real Bristol sites, including the scale of activity underway at Temple Quarter. Our setting out courses give you the practical skills, qualifications and confidence to get hired and progress across the region’s construction sector.
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 Bristol base or on-site anywhere across the West of England, ideal for contractors involved in the Temple Quarter regeneration or working elsewhere across the region.
Partner with us to support surveying modules at colleges and universities across the West of England, 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 Temple Meads, working on a housing scheme elsewhere in the city, or supporting infrastructure near the M32 or M4, our courses are designed to reflect the reality of a live Bristol construction site.
Our most popular course and the one most Bristol 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, especially valuable on the fast-moving schemes underway at Temple Quarter.
Two days covering drawing interpretation and setting out data in AutoCAD, useful for engineers working alongside design teams on Bristol’s larger regeneration 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 Bristol location or enquire about in-house training delivered at your site anywhere across the West of England.
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.
5/5 Rated by 50+ happy learners
Whether you’re building a career on Bristol sites or developing your company’s workforce across the West of England, there’s a route built for where you are.
We focus on building the real-world setting out skills and confidence Bristol’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 Bristol 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 of England on setting out and construction surveying modules, a level of academic credibility most commercial training providers can’t claim.
Bristol is one of 10 UK and Ireland locations where we run public setting out courses, alongside London, Kent, Glasgow, Warrington, Newcastle, Leeds, Birmingham, Belfast and Dublin. Most competitors operate from a single base.
We train on multiple total station types, not just one, so Bristol engineers are ready for whatever instrument they find on any construction site across the West of England.
Our ProQual Diploma in Engineering Surveying is aligned to the competence-proving requirements that have become critical since the Building Safety Act, helping Bristol 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, Bristol is one of our 10 UK and Ireland course locations, with scheduled dates run regularly alongside in-house delivery across the West of England.
Yes, we regularly deliver in-house setting out training for contractors and housebuilders across Bristol and the wider West of England. This works well for training several engineers or a graduate intake together.
Alongside Bristol itself, we regularly see delegates from Bath, Weston-super-Mare, Yate, Portishead and Chippenham.
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 Bristol courses reflect the scale of groundworks and setting out common to West England’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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