Course description
How would you like to live in a world without lighting, heating or clean water and sanitation? Everything that makes a building safe and comfortable to live or work in needs to be designed, installed and maintained by highly skilled people such as building services engineers
This thoroughly practical course is the ideal course for FM teams who need to develop their understanding of building services in order to ensure Optimal satisfaction of organisational requirements and Efficient and cost-effective maintenance and operation of building services
The course is written from the perspective of people that manage, operate and maintain buildings. It utilizes scenarios and cases, procedures, documents, drawings, images and videos that these facilities management professionals will be familiar with.
Upcoming start dates
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
This Professional Managing Building Services course is aimed at senior personnel involved in the management, operation and maintenance of buildings. Some ideal participants include but are not limited to: estates directors, commercial managers, procurement managers, facilities management, quality managers, health and safety managers, building managers, leasing managers, maintenance managers, asset managers, sustainability managers, and project managers
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Upon completion of thisProfessional Managing Building Services course, you will understand:
- Building services: Explaining what building services are and how they work - and establishing the importance of maintaining them
- Building maintenance: How to develop a comprehensive building services maintenance programme, including condition surveys, asset management and lifecycle plans
- Utility management: energy efficiency
- Building control requirements: The range of building management systems (BMS) and technology used to control or manage building services
- Compliance: requirements and risk management for building services
Training Course Content
Day 1
Building services fundamentals
- The function of services in commercial buildings and their importance to the core business.
- Electrical services.
- Lighting.
- Heating.
- Ventilation and air conditioning.
- Lifts.
- Water.
- Comprehending IT and communication systems.
Day 2
The provision of comfort and safety
- Statutory requirements.
- Health and safety legislation.
- Control of contractors.
- Risk assessment.
- Fire precautions.
- Legionella, sick building and other risks.
- Business requirements.
- Understanding user requirements.
- Matching systems to business needs.
Day 3
Getting the design right
- What the FM needs to know about design and its procurement.
- Successful space planning.
- Relationship between services, space planning and design.
- Getting the brief right.
- Supplier selection and management.
Operation and maintenance
- Input and output specifications.
- Resource options.
- Contracts principal elements.
- Tendering key steps.
- Selection criteria.
- Operational criteria.
- Maintenance trends.
- Performance-based service provision.
- Input and output specifications.
- KPIs and thresholds.
- Risk containment.
- Value-add opportunities.
- Performance contract strategy.
Day 4
Contingency planning
- Being ready for the unexpected
- Identifying and reducing risk
- Internal risks
- External risks
- Identifying threats at your site
- Managing risk
- Protective systems
- Occupier obligations
- Fire management
- Testing
Commissioning services systems
- Physical commissioning.
- Common problems.
- Typical costs.
- Commissioning stages.
- Continuous commissioning.
- Energy efficiency and the scope for environmental improvement.
Day 5
Satisfying the occupants
- Obtaining and responding to feedback.
- When to get feedback.
- Why?
- How?
- What to do with it?
- Practical exercises.
Air time
- Sharing experience and addressing specific issues of interest to participants.
- Course review.
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