A Guide to Building Operation and Maintenance – Part I
This online engineering PDH course examines building operations and maintenance (O&M) practices and their critical role in safe, reliable, and energy-efficient building performance.
Building O&M involves managing systems and equipment throughout their service life to support energy efficiency, occupant comfort, indoor environmental quality, and long-term asset value.
This course covers maintenance planning, asset management, and O&M strategies, including preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered maintenance, along with tools like CMMS and existing building commissioning to improve equipment reliability and reduce life-cycle costs.
This course also highlights practical, low-cost strategies for reducing equipment failures and emergency repairs while improving energy efficiency, occupant satisfaction, and facility value.
This 10 PDH online course is designed for mechanical and industrial engineers, and other technical professionals interested in building operations and maintenance.
This P.E. continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Understanding the fundamentals of building operations and maintenance (O&M) and its role in building performance
- Differentiating between reactive, preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered maintenance strategies
- Evaluating the organizational components of effective O&M programs and integrated maintenance management
- Explaining how O&M practices improve energy efficiency, reliability, and occupant comfort
- Identifying common operational deficiencies and the role of proactive O&M in addressing them
- Understanding the functions and benefits of computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS)
- Explaining the application of predictive maintenance technologies for condition-based monitoring
- Evaluating the use of performance trending and operational data to support maintenance decisions
- Understanding the purpose of metering and data analysis in optimizing O&M performance
- Explaining how effective O&M practices reduce operational risks and equipment failures
- Evaluating the economic benefits of O&M through reduced costs and extended equipment life
- Understanding how structured O&M programs improve operational stability and occupant satisfaction
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