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Building services and maintenance – introduction (In-House)

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Suitability - Who should attend?

Facilities and maintenance managers and their teams.

Outcome / Qualification etc.

To provide a fundamental understanding of building services in the context of:
  • The working environment
  • The success of the core business
  • The health and safety of the occupants
  • Operating cost and environmental impact
  • The optimisation of cost and value
  • Strategies for continuous improvement

Training Course Content

DAY ONE

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
  • Understanding IT and communication systems
  • Practical exercises

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
  • Practical exercises

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
  • Practical exercises

DAY TWO

4 Operation and maintenance

  • Why maintain?
    • Maintenance contracts
    • 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
  • Practical exercises

5 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
  • Practical exercises

6 Commissioning services systems

  • Physical commissioning
  • Common problems
  • Typical costs
  • Commissioning stages
  • Continuous commissioning
  • Energy efficiency and the scope for environmental improvement
  • Practical exercises

7 Satisfying the occupants

  • Obtaining and responding to feedback
    • When to get feedback
    • Why
    • How
    • What to do with it
  • Practical exercises

8 ‘Air time’

  • Sharing experience and addressing specific issues of interest to participants
  • Course review
  • Close

Course delivery details

This thoroughly practical two-day course uses a mixture of formal tutor inputs, practical exercises, case studies, specialist tools and tutor-facilitated discussion.

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The In-House Training Company
22 South Burgundy House, The Foresters, High Street
AL5 2FB Harpenden

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