Overview

The Energy Efficiency for Building Operators & Maintenance Staff (EEBOM) program is a hands-on and highly interactive course designed to engage, motivate, and empower building operators and managers.

Whether you are taking the one or two day version of the program, our instructors will facilitate participant understanding of how energy behaves, how energy is used in their facility and how it can be controlled through operational action across a variety of building systems. Throughout the program, a variety of physical demonstrations, calculations, worksheets, role playing and case studies are presented to bring to life the energy savings opportunities that exist within lighting, pumps and fans, building envelope components, HVAC and refrigeration, building automation systems, ventilation, and more.

Building operators and related maintenance and facility staff know their building better than anyone. As such, they are uniquely positioned to discover and act on energy savings opportunities that will reduce maintenance costs and the overall operating costs of their building.

A unique aspect of this training program is the Energy Hunt - which brings participants out of the classroom and into the practical day-to-day operations of a building, thus allowing participants to take part in a detailed examination of a building. The lessons learned from this exercise is then brought back into the classroom where participants learn how to conduct savings calculations for the energy saving opportunities identified during the Hunt.

 

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Interested in a private EEBOM session for your staff, in which we will profile and conduct an energy hunt using your building and consumption data?

Contact info@cietcanada.com for more details about how to organize a private EEBOM.


Key Learning Objectives

Upon completing this training, participants will:

  • Learn how building operations impact energy consumption and how to identify energy waste
  • Determine how you can improve energy efficiency through building maintenance and operations
  • Gain expertise on how to conduct simple energy savings calculations and explain savings to others
  • Learn how building control strategies can be used to reduce energy consumption and costs
  • Gain better understanding of how to optimize HVAC
  • Understand how to reduce energy through equipment selection/replacement


Audience

  • Building/facility operators and supervisors
  • Building/asset managers
  • Energy managers
  • Service providers to the commercial building industry
  • 3rd party building management vendors
  • Building Maintenance staff
  • Technologists and specialists (lighting, HVAC, others)

Location

CIET Virtual Real-Time Classroom training

This training will be offered virtually through Microsoft Teams. Upon enrollment, you will receive the information you will need to enjoy a great training experience.

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Agenda

Training Schedule (click the image to see it in full screen)

 

 

There will be an optional but appreciated 45-min informal networking session at the end of the first day so you can get to know your fellow participants better; it starts after the Q&A at around 5:15 pm CDT.

 

Topics covered

Day 1

  • Overview of Energy Management
  • Finding the Savings
  • Seven Steps To understanding energy use and finding Savings
  • Overview of the Energy Treasure Hunt

Day 2

  • Getting Ready: Analyzing Building Data
  • Building Walkthrough
  • Assemble of ideas list
  • BAS Walkthrough & gathering of additional data
  • Calculating Savings
  • Making the Case for EE: Presenting your Ideas to Others

 

Trainers

Stephen Dixon CIET Canada, headshot
Stephen Dixon
B.Sc., M.A.Sc.

Stephen Dixon is a freelance energy consultant. As Principal of TdS Dixon Inc., of St. Jacobs, Ontario, he brings a practical, hands-on approach to the challenge of developing the energy management capacities of a broad range of institutional, commercial, and industrial organizations. Stephen has accumulated more than 35 years of energy management experience, including more than 800 energy assessments and the facilitation of over 1,700 energy management workshops. Stephen holds an M.A.Sc. in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo and a B.Sc. in Physics from UPEI.

Stephen’s extensive experience with RETScreen began with his significant contributions to the design and development of RETScreen’s energy efficiency models in RETScreen v4.  Subsequently, Stephen’s popular Monitoring Targeting & Reporting Tool featuring simple regression and CUUSM functions inspired and informed the development of the  RETScreen Plus Performance Analysis tools.  Finally, Stephen provided technical support to the development of RETScreen’s newest version RETScreen Expert.  Stephen has successfully delivered over 25 RETScreen training sessions and incorporated RETScreen training into more than 100 energy management training workshops.

The course includes...

  • You will receive a PDF copy of the training material by email during the week prior to the course.

Policies

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