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 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.

This course covers heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) control systems, and teaches you to develop energy management strategies for HVAC, electronic, and lighting systems. You will learn about the components, principles, adjustment, and maintenance of system controller, auxiliary devices, electronic, pneumatic, and computer control systems. You will develop an understanding of the operation of heating, cooling, humidification, and dehumidification control applications, and learn about variable air volume design and building pressurization control devices. You'll 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.

• Control system basics
• Auxiliary and electronic controls and their application to heating, cooling,
• humidifying, dehumidifying, 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.

• The skill to apply an energy management plan to your building's systems
• The know-how to evaluate new systems with an eye toward retrofitting
• An understanding of traditional and alternative energy systems
• A knowledge of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and other resources to optimize your system
• The ability to effectively develop and present an energy system
• The skill to develop, implement, and manage an innovative preventive maintenance program.