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:
At the copletion of Building Systems Overview training, a participant will be able to:
- Know the requirements of the BOC program.
- identify facility energy and resource usages as well as the building envelope and heat transfer characteristics.
- assemble the documentation available pertaining to a facility's major mechanical systems.
- Set up a documentation reference area for building systems.
Texts: NEEC STUDENT HANDBOOK: BOC 101 – Building Systems Overview
Special Equipment: None
Evaluation:
a. Application project 50%
b. Written test 50%
BOC 101 – Building Systems Overview: Course Outline
1. Introduction to BOC program and certification requirements
2. Student polling questions (class exercise)
a. Appendix questions
b. Class discussion
3. Facility management issues
a. Trends in the field of facility management
b. Competency emphasis
4. Importance of Operations & Maintenance
a. Elements of effective O&M
b. Operations tasks
c. Maintenance tasks
d. Value and importance of O&M tasks
e. Case study
5. O&M practices
a. Definition
b. Resources
c. Using human senses
d. Programs
6. Types of maintenance
a. Reactive
b. Preventative
c. Predictive
7. Building envelope
a. Heat transfer
1. conductive
2. radiant
3. convective
b. Air movement and thermal comfort
c. Envelope priorities
8. Energy terms
a. British thermal units
b. R-values and U-values
9. Best practices
a. Occupancy schedules
b. Ventilation and ductwork
c. Air filters
d. Affinity law
e. Humidity
f. Water heating
g. Commissioning
10. Buildings and sustainability
11. Energy accounting
12. O&M best practices
a. Boilers
b. Chillers
c. Cooling towers
d. Control systems
e. Air handling systems
f. Lighting systems
13. Information management
a. O&M library
b. CMMS
c. Occupant education
Class Exercise
1. See polling questions in the Appendix of the BOC 101 handbook. Answers will be a basis for class discussion.
Facility Project Assignment
1. Draw or reproduce a simple floor plan of one building. (If you copy an existing floor plan, remove references to other systems)
2. Locate the following building systems for the project.
a. Ventilation
b. Heating
c. Cooling
3. Identify on the floor plan:
a. Major components (i.e., boiler, chiller, cooling tower, rooftop units, controller, lighting fixtures.
b. Distribution pathways (i.e., ducts and piping, lighting layout); also identify supply and returns for central air, water or steam systems.
c. Terminal points and subcomponent (i.e. supply and return registers, VAV boxes, radiators)
d. Control locations ( i.e., sensors, thermostats, or switches)
Updated 1-21-2011