Everything You Need to Know About Building Automation

A complete look at BAS components, processes, and use scenarios.

Audience:

This course is targeted towards new salespersons, technicians, designers, operators, consulting engineers, and project managers. This course provides the foundational knowledge for all of our other courses.

Pre-Requisite Knowledge:

No pre-requisite knowledge is required.

Objectives: 

• Posses a foundational knowledge of BAS that will support you throughout the rest of your career
  
• Be prepared for conversations with customers, hiring managers, and other building professionals
  
• Eliminate project delays caused by a lack of familiarity with BAS, so that your projects are delivered On-time and on-budget
  

Course Benefits:

• Learn at your own pace
• Fully Online
• Lifetime access to the course
• Regularly updated course material
• Live bi-weekly office hours 

Key Topics:

• Gain a complete overview of building automation systems
  
• Learn the five different pieces of BAS hardware and how each piece functions within a full-blown BAS
  
• Learn the three different BAS architectures, the pros and cons of each architecture, and how to use each architecture
  
• Learn what points, trends, and alarms are, how and when to use them and point naming strategies for your BAS
  
• Learn what a user interface is, how to properly structure graphics, why and how to use BAS reporting, and how to create an optimized scheduling strategy
  
• Learn the three different BAS architectures, the pros and cons of each architecture, and how to use each architecture
  
• Learn what control systems are, why control systems matter, the four different kinds of control systems, and how to tie each control system type into your BAS
  
• Learn what control modes are, how the 7 common control modes work, when to use each control mode, and how to adjust each control mode
  
• Learn what a protocol is, how the 3 most common protocols work, when to use each protocol, and how to use each protocol
  
• Learn what the three types of controls work are, how each type of controls work is done, what your role in each type of controls work is
  
• Learn the fundamentals of electricity, how wiring works and the different parts of wiring, what a circuit is, and how relays and safeties work in a circuit
  
• Learn what the main construction documents are, how to use the documents as a BAS professionals, and how to interpret and use BAS controls documents
  
• Learn what test and balance is, how the BAS professionals is involved in the T&B process, what commissioning is, and how to create and perform functional tests
  

Successful Completion

Successful Completion will require:

Completion of all video lessons and successfully passing the course final exam with a score of 90% or greater. Upon successful completion, the student will receive a certificate of completion and their name will be added to the certification database. 

FAQs:

When will the class start?

The class is online and self-paced. As soon as you enroll you will have life long access.

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