Energy auditing – an introduction

Seminar Summary

Are you flying blind when it comes to commercial building energy usage? Commercial buildings are being designed for energy efficient operation. How sure can you be that energy targets are being met? Energy efficient design is one thing, but actual operation is often a completely different story.

There is still considerable lack of knowledge about how to approach an energy audit and the steps that need to be taken to reduce energy usage.

This introduction course provides participants with the knowledge and confidence to start asking the essential questions and looking in the right places to get effective results. The course will also demonstrate how energy is used in buildings and how auditing building services can promote cost savings, better comfort control, and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

Key topics

• Purpose of an energy audit
• Benefits of energy audits
• Understanding how energy is measured
• Understanding the components of energy bills
• Identifying how energy is used in buildings
• Differentiating between the three levels of energy audit defined in AS/NZS 3598:2000 – Energy Audits
• Understanding energy audit reports
• Identifying energy waste
• Cost / benefit analysis
• Clients as team members of an energy audit

This course is ideal for:

This one day course is for anyone who has a role that influences the design, installation or commissioning of HVAC systems, supplies equipment, maintains and/or manages facilities or provides services.

Course dates and locations

This seminar will not be running during 2008.

In-house training

The energy auditing – an introduction seminar can be run at your work place. If you have 8 or more people interested in doing the course please contact Brendan Pejkovic on 03 8623 3007 to obtain further information.

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