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Understanding the key maintenance and energy management aspects of building management is critical to running a cost-effective operation. From everyday preventive maintenance tasks to the challenge of developing and selling an energy plan, this 30-hour online course provides you with the skills to evaluate and optimize your current system, the know-how to integrate new components, and the ability to communicate your needs to management. Develop the skills and knowledge to perform cost/benefit analysis of HVAC, electric, and lighting systems and to create an energy management program for your facility.
- Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) control systems
- Development of energy management strategies for HVAC, electronic, and lighting systems
- Components, principles, adjustment, and maintenance of system controller, auxiliary devices, electronic, pneumatic, and computer control systems.
- Operation of heating, cooling, humidification, control applications
- Variable air volume design and building pressurization control devices
- ADDED BONUS: We will provide our LED Lighting Assessments course for no additional charge.
Topics covered include:
- Control system basics
- Auxiliary and electronic controls and their application to heating, cooling, humidifying, and volume control
- Computerized automatic control systems
- Factors determining energy consumption in HVAC, electronic, and lighting systems
- Preventive maintenance measures in energy management
- Energy management control system applications
- Applying an energy management plan to your building's systems
- Evaluating new systems with a concentration on retrofitting
- Understanding of traditional and alternative energy systems
- Comprehension of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and other resources to optimize your system
- Developing and presenting an energy system
- Developing, implementing, and managing an innovative preventive maintenance program
Who Should Take This Course?
Facility managers, building operators, maintenance technicians
Continuing Education Credit Opportunities:
American Council on Education (ACE) credit recommendation: 2 semester hours, lower division baccalaureate in Facilities Systems and Management, Construction Management, or Engineering Technologies.
U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Recommendation: 18 GBCI continuing education hours towards the LEED Credential Maintenance Program.
Designation/Certificate: SMT®
This is one of 5 required courses to earn the SMT designation from BOMI. Course participants receive a certificate of completion for the BOMI Building Energy Management and Controls course upon successful completion of this course.
Questions? Please call us at 1-800-518-1877
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