CIET, in partnership with The City of Calgary’s BenchmarkYYC program, is offering this comprehensive training course to:
- Help building owners and operators cultivate the knowledge and skills needed to enhance the performance of their buildings
- Bring strong, sustainable change to your organization
Registration Offer:
This course is free for BenchmarkYYC participants, Calgary-based built environment professionals, post-secondary students, and non-profit or charitable organizations.
For BenchmarkYYC participants, offer eligibility applies to those who have submitted energy use data for any of the following years – 2022, 2023, 2024 or 2025.
Program Overview
Date: September 15-16, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Location: Platform Calgary, 407 9 Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2G 2K7 Click here to view the map
A light breakfast, refreshments, and a full lunch will be provided each day.
The Energy Efficiency for Building Operators and Maintenance Staff (EEBO) course is designed to engage, motivate, and empower building operators and managers through hands-on and highly interactive training.
In this two-day in-person course, instructors help participants understand how energy behaves, how it is used in facilities, and how to control it through operational actions across various building systems. Physical demonstrations, calculations, worksheets, role plays, and case studies are used to demonstrate existing energy savings opportunities in lighting, pumps, fans, building envelope components, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), refrigeration, building automation systems, and more.
Building operators as well as related maintenance and facility staff know their building better than anyone. Therefore, they are uniquely positioned to discover and act on energy savings opportunities that will reduce building maintenance costs and overall operating costs.
This course includes a unique feature called an Energy Hunt that takes participants out of the classroom and into the daily operations of a prominent downtown Calgary office building to examine them closely. The knowledge gained from this exercise is then applied in the classroom where participants learn how to calculate energy savings based on the opportunities identified during the Energy Hunt.
Note: As an added value to CIET’s Energy Efficiency for Building Operators & Maintenance Staff course, a fully functional FREE 60-day trial subscription to the RETScreen® Expert software (value of $125) is made available.
In this course, you will learn to:
- Determine how building operations impact energy consumption and how to identify energy waste.
- Determine how to improve energy efficiency through building maintenance and operations.
- Apply expertise on how to conduct simple energy savings calculations and explain savings to others.
- Apply building control strategies used to reduce energy consumption and costs.
- Optimize HVAC systems.
- Reduce energy consumption through equipment selections and replacements.
Agenda
Day 1
- Overview of Energy Management
- Finding the Savings
- Seven Steps to understanding energy use and finding savings
- Overview of the Energy Treasure Hunt
- Extended Q&A session
Day 2
- Details of energy consuming systems
- Building walkthrough: Energy Hunt Activity
- Categorizing and prioritizing energy saving initiatives
- Executive savings calculations and analysis
- Extended Q&A session
This course is ideal for:
- Building/facility operators and supervisors
- Building/asset managers
- Energy managers
- Service providers in the commercial building industry
- Building maintenance staff
- Technologists and specialists (lighting, HVAC, others)
- Sustainability managers
Please note: if registrations exceed maximum capacity, preference will be given to BenchmarkYYC participants.
Course spaces are limited, and by registering, you are expected to attend. If you can’t make it, please cancel at least 72 hours in advance so we can offer the spot to someone else.