Training
Descriptions:
BOC 101 - Building Systems Overview
| Credits: |
1 |
| Total: |
10 hrs |
| Lecture: |
6 hrs |
| Project: |
3 hrs |
| Class Exercise: |
1 hr |
Prerequisites: The student should be familiar with overall facility
layout. No specific technical or prior training required.
Learning Outcomes/Competencies:
For successful completion of the Building Systems Overview, a participant
will:
- know the content and requirements of the Building Operator
Certification program.
- identify the basic building systems that exist in the
facility.
- identify facility energy and resource uses.
- assemble the documentation available pertaining to the
major mechanical systems.
- set up a documentation reference area for building systems
such as mechanical, electrical, and lighting.
- successfully complete the take-home facility project assignment.
Texts: STUDENT
HANDBOOK: BOC 101 – Building Systems Overview, plus course
handouts
Special Equipment: None
Evaluation:
a. Facility project assignment 50%
b. Written test 50%
BOC 101 - Building Systems Overview: Course Outline
1. Introduction
to the BOC program and local sponsors
a. Role
of building operators
b. Benefits
of certification
c. Approach
and expectations
2. Energy
and Resources
a. What’s a resource?
b. Some energy basics
3. Preventive
Maintenance and Energy Basics
a. Types of Maintenance
b. Energy and resources
c. Energy terminology
d. Building heat loss and gain
e. Comfort factors, humidity, air temperature and air movement
4. Heating
Systems
i.
Boiler types
ii.
Steam and condensate cycle
iii.
Blowdown, water treatment, tune-ups and maintenance requirements
iv.
Boiler operation improvements
i.
Fuel types
ii.
Cabinet components & rooftop units
iii.
Motors
iv.
Maintenance
5. Cooling,
Ventilation & Control Systems
a. Cooling load rules of thumb
b. Vapor compression cycle
c. Types
i.
Heat pumps
ii.
Chillers
6. Air
Handling Systems
a. Purpose
b. Equipment
c. Design options you may see
7. Lighting
Systems
a. Types
b. Maintenance issues
8. Facility
Electrical Systems
a. Terms
b. Safety
basics
c. Utility
electrical distribution
9. Indoor
Air Quality
a. Investigation fundamentals
b. Building occupant relations
10. Pulling
It All Together
a. Review facility and identify systems
b. Locate or send for documentation
c. Identify maintenance issues
Facility Project Assignment
Draw or reproduce a simple floor plan of one building.
Identify
on the floor plan:
- Major components (i.e. boiler, chiller, cooling tower, rooftop
units, Controller, lighting fixtures).
- Distribution pathways (i.e. ducts and piping, lighting
layout) - Identify supply and returns for central air, water
or steam systems.
- Identify terminal points and subcomponent (i.e. supply
and return registers, VAV boxes, radiators).
- Identify control locations ( i.e. sensors, thermostats
or switches).
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