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Maintaining building services

Free copy of BSRIA's Maintenance for Building Services guide for all delegates.

Do you clearly understand what your sub-contractors are doing - or what they're supposed to do? 

• Have you ever wanted to find out what Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) is?
• Do you get the feeling that maintenance contractors are setting their own agendas?
• Does the term 'dry-bulb' pass over your head?
• Are you the Responsible Person when it comes to meeting Legislation?

If you want to understand how to run building services successfully and stay within the law this course is for you. It is aimed at providing attendees with an appreciation of the fundamental principles that drive building services and how they should be operated and maintained while ensuring they support the needs of the core business. This is an introductory course that will guide you through appropriate elements of plant and systems and the resources that are available to you and draw on BSRIA's experiences of best practice.
 

• Anyone who has facilities or premises management responsibility but who has no formal operation and maintenance training
• Facilities Managers with "soft services" background, wishing to enhance their "hard services" knowledge
• Office managers
• Helpdesk operators
• Administration managers

• To introduce industry best practice strategies, processes, techniques and points of reference for the operation and maintenance of building services 
• To focus on the "hard services" elements and their interface with facilities management, including mechanical, electrical and public health services in buildings

The following topics will be covered:

• Heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems
• Hot & Cold Water
• Controls
• Maintenance Strategy - planned, reactive, risk-based and condition-based
• Legislation and Compliance - statutory inspections, frequencies and competencies
• Information management: Building Manuals, O&M Manuals
• Sustainability, including energy efficient plant replacement
• Information resources  

Registration starts at 0900. The course starts at 0930 and finishes at 1630. Lunch and refreshments are provided.

Delegates will gain an understanding of what it takes to successfully maintain building services, and will know where to look for more detailed information in particular areas.

Delegates are provided with a copy of all the slides presented, BSRIA publication BG 3/2008 Maintenance for Building Services and a BSRIA CPD certificate.  Copies of this publication are available for purchase from the BSRIA Bookshop

Ralph Bell spent 26 years in the Royal Navy and was responsible for the operation and maintenance of the various plant and systems found on a warship. Since leaving the navy he has been employed by a number of companies as both a facilities and a building services manager, most recently at Heathrow as part of the T5 construction project. Read Ralph's full profile

Jo Harris is the head of BSRIA's Sustainable Building Group. She has a background in building services maintenance and FM including factories, data centres and commercial offices. She is responsible for the BSRIA Operation & Maintenance Benchmarking Network and has been analysing operational and customer satisfaction data for the last six years. Read Jo's full profile