High-Performance Green Buildings Certificate
Starting August 2008

For building superintendents and others pursuing that career track, 9-credit sequence of three courses covers cost-effective energy options, operations management, maintenance management and project management. Gives a comprehensive overview of new energy-saving devices and products, looking at feasibility, planning, costs, installation and investment recovery periods.

Courses taught at ECAM:

Energy (3 credits)
Examines energy pricing, energy purchasing and new technologies for energy-efficient facilities. Topics include:

• Energy use in society and environmental responsibilities
• Infrastructure weaknesses and resource volatility
• Pollution control and recycling in buildings

The changing work environment and emerging technologies associated with:

• Server spaces
• Data centers
• Clean rooms
• Medical facilities
• Utilities, energy pricing structures, energy risk, risk spreading, hedging and futures

Green solutions for:

• Lighting
• Electrical distribution
• Elevators and escalators
• Heating and cooling
• Combined heat and power
• Emergency backup power
• Micro-turbines and distributed generation
• Digital and web-based facilities management systems for:
  • Energy control and monitoring
  • Data backup and password protection
  • Sequencing, programming and scheduling
  • Trend analysis and troubleshooting
• Performance contracting
• LEED system and standards
• Energy innovations - comparative analysis
• Grant funding sources
• Obtaining customer/client buy-in and employee participation

Plant Management (3 credits)
Examines fully integrated, green approach to plant maintenance and operations. Topics include:

• Green products and concepts for building services
• LEAN, Six Sigma and operations research
• High-efficiency staffing
• Computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS)
• Preventative and predictive maintenance
• Plant management performance reporting

Project Management (3 credits)
Examines superintendent management process for commercial construction and other types of projects. Topics cover:

• Responsibilities of owners, architects, engineers, contractors and subcontractors
• Subcontractor management
• Mobilization and scheduling
• Shop drawings and submittal
• Quality control, progress measurement and problem solving
• Change orders, payment requests and proper maintenance of job-site records
• Microsoft Project Manager
• Project meetings, construction documents and facilities systems commissioning

Site visits will include:

• MATC fuel cell, wind turbine and solar system
• Washington Park Library geothermal heat pump
• We Energies power plant
• The Anderson Building micro-turbine
• A state-of-the-art energy control and monitoring system