Operations & Maintenance Practices for Sustainable Multifamily Buildings
| Credits: | 1 |
| Lecture: | 6 hours |
| Class Exercises: | 1 hours |
| Project: | 3 hours | Total: | 10 hours |
Prerequisites: None
Class Description: This class discusses O&M best practices for sustainability in multifamily buildings including exterior site issues, water efficiency, cleaning products, material and supply purchasing, energy efficiency, and indoor environmental quality. Resident engagement and education are emphasized.
Learning Outcomes/Competencies:
At the completion of O&M Practices for Sustainable Multifamily Buildings, a participant will be able to:
- Discuss the goals and benefits of sustainability and how it relates to operations and maintenance in green buildings.
- Identify the six key areas of sustainable building operation and maintenance.
- Define carbon emissions and discuss ways emissions are measured and controlled.
- Describe national rating systems, strategies, and energy benchmarking tools for sustainable building design, construction and operation.
- Evaluate the sustainability of a facility and identify opportunities and challenges in making the building’s operations more sustainable.
- Evaluate the sustainability of a facility’s grounds and identify opportunities and challenges in making the building site and landscape more sustainable.
- Calculate the baseline water consumption for a building and design a fixture schedule to achieve federal water conservation standards.
- Recall energy cost control strategies and describe a range of O&M practices for improving building energy and resource conservation.
- Evaluate ways a facility can reduce energy consumption, identify challenges, and propose solutions.
- Define Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), evaluate chemicals and products against sustainability standards, and discuss strategies for improving the IEQ of a building.
- 1. Sustainability
- 1.1 Sustainability Defined
- 1.2 Sustainable Operation and Maintenance
- 1.3 Trends in Sustainability
- 1.4 Environmental Impact on Buildings
- 1.5 Building Energy Costs
- 1.6 Carbon Footprint
- 1.7 Healthy Living Spaces
- 1.8 Green Building Certification
- 1.8.1 Guidelines
- 1.8.2 LEED O+M Rating System
- 1.9 Case Studies in Sustainability
- 2. Occupant Awareness and Participation
- 3. Sustainable Sites
- 3.1 Sustainable Landscapes
- 3.2 Healthy Soils and Plant Selection
- 3.3 Erosion Control
- 3.4 Irrigation Systems
- 3.5 Outdoor Strategies to Save Water
- 3.6 Weed Control
- 3.7 Integrated Pest Management
- 3.8 Stormwater Management
- 3.9 Low-Impact Development
- 3.9.1 Permeable Paving
- 3.9.2 Heat Island Effect
- 3.9.3 Sustainable Roofs
- 3.10 Light Pollution
- 3.11 Sustainable Landscape Case Study
- 4. Water Use
- 4.1 Residential and Multifamily Indoor Water use
- 4.2 Residential Outdoor Water Use
- 4.3 Water Conserving Fixtures
- 4.4 Maintaining Fixtures
- 4.4.1 Cast Study: Leaky Toilets
- 4.5 Water Reuse Systems
- 4.5.1 Maintaining Reuse Systems and Storage
- 4.5.2 Single Pass Equipment>/li>
- 4.5.3 Kitchen and Laundry Strategies
- 4.6 Case Study: Energy Effiency Retrofits at CHA
- 5. Energy Conservation
- 5.1 Six Activities to Control Costs
- 5.2 Energy Consumption by End-Use
- 5.3 Benchmarking Energy Performance
- 5.4 Reduce Lighting Loads
- 5.5 Daylight and Views
- 5.6 Use Lighting Controls
- 5.7 HVAC Maintenance
- 5.8 Newer Efficient Technologies
- 5.9 Plug Loads
- 6. On-Site and Renewable Energy
- 6.1 Green Power
- 7. Indoor Environmental Quality
- 7.1 Green Cleaning Program
- 7.2 VOCs and Air Quality
- 7.3 Low-Emitting Materials
- 7.4 Furnishings
- 8. Purchasing
- Waste Management
- 9.1 Why do Multifamily Properties Recycle Less
- 9.2 Case Study: Waste State Kits and Tenant Education
- 9.3 Waste Management and Recycling
- 10. Path to Sustainable Building Practices
- 11. BOC MF1008 Test
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