| Credits: | .7 |
| Lecture: | 6 hrs |
| Class Exercise: | 1 hr |
| Total: | 7 hrs |
Prerequisites: None
Class Description: Participants will learn O&M best practices for green or high performance buildings including exterior site issues, water efficiency, cleaning products, material and supply purchasing, energy, and indoor environmental quality to improve the performance of both existing buildings and newly-designed green buildings.
PROJECT: None
Learning Objectives:
At the completion of Operation & Maintenance Practices for Sustainable Buildings a participant will be able to:
- Discuss the goals and benefits of sustainability and how it relates to operations and maintenance in green buildings.
- Identify the six key areas of sustainable building operation and maintenance.
- Define carbon emission and discuss ways emission is measured and controlled.
- Describe national rating systems, strategies, and energy benchmarking tools for sustainable building design, construction, and operation.
- Evaluate the sustainability of a facility and identify opportunities and challenges in making the building’s operations more sustainable.
- Evaluate the sustainability of a facility’s grounds and identify opportunities and challenges of making the building site and landscape more sustainable.
- Calculate the baseline water consumption for a building and design a fixture schedule to achieve Federal water conservation standards.
- Recall energy cost control strategies and describe a range of O&M practices for improving building energy and resource conservation.
- Evaluate ways a facility can reduce energy consumption, identify challenges, and propose solutions.
- Define Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), evaluate chemicals and products against sustainability standards, and discuss strategies for improving the IEQ of a building.
Textbook:
BOC 1008 –Operation & Maintenance Practices for Sustainable Buildings5, NEEC
Special Equipment for Instructors: None
Evaluation:
Written Test 100%
Class Outline
1. Sustainability/Green Building Primer
1.1. Occupant Participation/Buy In
1.2. Sustainability
1.2.1. Definition
1.2.2. Recognition
1.2.3. History/Importance
1.3. Green Building
1.3.1. Why?
1.3.2. Laws/Codes
1.3.3. Rating Systems
1.3.4. Incentives/Rebates/Bonuses
1.4. Carbon Footprint/Emissions
1.5. Exercise 1
2. Exterior/Site
2.1. Landscape
2.1.1. Plant replacement
2.1.2. Weed control
2.2. Pest Control
2.3. Siding/Graffiti
2.4. Roofing
2.5. Hard Surfaces
2.6. Lighting
2.6.1. Efficiency
2.6.2. Night Sky
2.7. Erosion Control
2.8. Low-impact development
2.9. Pervious Paving/Surfaces
2.9.1. Porous concrete/asphalt
2.9.2. Grasscrete
2.9.3. Open grid
2.10. Transportation
2.10.1. Pedestrian Egress
2.10.2. Safety/ease
2.11. Signage
2.12. Exercise2
3. Water Efficiency
3.1. Irrigation
3.1.1. Plant Selection
3.1.2. Intelligent Systems
3.1.3. Efficient heads
3.1.4. Drip
3.2. Indoor Potable Water Use
3.3. Fixtures
3.3.1. Urinal
3.3.2. Dual Flush
3.3.3. Showers
3.4. Water Reuse
3.4.1. Rainwater
3.4.2. Greywater
3.5. Cooling Water
3.6. Exercise 3
4. Energy
4.1. Cost/Benchmarking
4.2. End uses
4.2.1. Loads
4.2.2. HVAC maintenance
4.2.3. New technologies
4.2.4. Plug loads
4.3. Renewable Energy
4.3.1. Types
4.3.2. Green Power
4.4. Daylight & Views
4.4.1. Glare Control
4.4.2. Exterior Shading
4.4.3. Partitions/Interior Walls/Relites
4.5. Electrical Lighting/Controls
4.5.1. Common Problems
4.5.2. Correction
4.5.3. Location
4.5.4. Adjustment
4.5.5. Furniture
4.6. Temperature Control
4.6.1. Verification/Survey
4.6.2. Move people to fit preference
4.7. Exercise 4
5. IEQ
5.1. Occupant Controls
5.2. Filtration
5.3. Housekeeping/Maintenance
5.3.1. VOCs/Toxins
5.3.2. Timing
5.4. Remediation
5.5. Exercise
5.6. IAQ Management during work/occupant protection
5.6.1. LEED Reference Standard – SMACNA
6. Building Materials/Supplies
6.1. Building EPP
7. Operations
7.1. Motor Pool/Equipment
7.1.1. Replacement
7.1.2. Maintenance/Oil/Fuel
7.2. House Keeping
7.3. Pest Control/Pesticides
7.4. Purchasing/Occupant EPP
7.5. Waste Management
7.6. Exercise
8. Resources
8.1. LEED EB
8.2. FEMP O&M Practices
9. Facility Project Assignment
There is no facility project assignment required for this class.