Preventive Maintenance Strategies for Facilities
Fee: $1,565 / Online / Jan 25 - 26, 2027 / Course Code: 17-0104-ONL27
OVERVIEW
Please note, This instructor-led course has specific dates and times:
This course is held online over 2 days on the following schedule (All times in Eastern Time Zone): 10 am to 6 pm Eastern
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Assess and prioritize facility maintenance activities to support long‑term asset performance and reliability.
- Evaluate repair, refurbishment, and replacement options for building systems using lifecycle and cost‑based considerations.
- Apply preventive maintenance principles to reduce unplanned downtime and extend facility service life.
- Manage contracts and warranties to support effective maintenance execution and risk control.
- Identify preventive strategies related to indoor air quality, energy efficiency, and environmental performance.
Description
As a facility professional, you are responsible for maintaining complex building systems while balancing budget constraints, operational demands, and long‑term asset performance. Decisions about when to maintain, repair, refurbish, or replace equipment directly affect reliability, occupant comfort, safety, and operating costs—yet these decisions are often made without a structured preventive maintenance framework.
This course provides a practical approach to preventive maintenance planning and execution for facilities. You will examine how building systems function, how maintenance activities influence performance and lifecycle costs, and how preventive strategies can reduce breakdowns, service disruptions, and emergency repairs. The course also addresses contract and warranty management, indoor air quality considerations, environmental impacts, and energy conservation from a maintenance decision‑making perspective.
Delivered using proven and tested practices, this course equips you with practical tools and methods you can apply immediately in your facility operations. By strengthening your preventive maintenance approach, you will be better positioned to manage risk, control costs, and support the reliable, efficient operation of your facilities.
Who This Course Is For
This course is designed for:
- Facility managers and operators responsible for building maintenance and performance
- Property and asset managers overseeing commercial, institutional, or industrial facilities
- Maintenance supervisors, technicians, and coordinators involved in planning or executing maintenance activities
- Engineers, technologists, and consultants supporting facility operations or infrastructure management
- Professionals responsible for budgeting, contracts, or lifecycle decision‑making related to facility assets
SYLLABUS
Day I
Real Life Assessment
- Defining the issues
- Case Studies
Planning Process for Increasing the Value of Your Asset (Part 1)
- Asset evaluation/Life cycle costs/Reserve funding
- Budgeting for maintenance, refurbishment and replacement to enhance the value of the asset
- The role of maintenance
- Preventative and predictive maintenance
Planning Process for Increasing Value of Your Asset (Part 2)
- Reliability Centered Maintenance (Preventative & Predictive Maintenance)
- Total Productive Maintenance
- Building The Maintenance Plan
Building Envelope Performance (Part 1)
- CSA Standards Compilation
- Maintaining and Repairing Concrete In Buildings
- Parking Lot and Asphalt Maintenance
- Diagnosis of Air Quality Problems in a Building
- Site Environmental Issues
Building Envelope Performance (Part 2)
- Diagnosis of Air Quality Problems in a Building
- Site Environmental Issues
Adjournment
Day II
Roofing Systems
- Types of roofing
- Causes of failure with various types of roofing
- Potential problem areas
- Repairs
- Preventive Maintenance
Maintenance of HVAC Systems
- Review of preventive maintenance of various types of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems
- Packaged terminal units, heat pumps, rooftop heating/cooling, fan coil units
- Boilers, chillers and cooling towers
- Air distribution systems
- Contract options for equipment maintenance and retrofits
CMMS - Computer Maintenance Management Systems
- Specifying the systems, what needs to be included
- Setting up the database
- Preventative maintenance scheduling
- Work orders
- Equipment records
- Inventory control and purchasing
- Reports
Energy Management and Auditing
- The purpose of auditing
- Conducting a successful audit
- Lighting audits
- Water and waste audits
- Case studies
Outsourcing and Contracting Out
- Outsourcing trends
- The need for specifications
- Contract administration
- Warranty administration
Open Forum Discussion
“How to achieve your objective of implementing an effective preventive maintenance program.”
Questions and Answers and Feedback to Participants on Achievement of Learning Outcomes
Concluding Remarks and Final Adjournment
INSTRUCTOR
President — Elite Lean & OHSA Solutions Inc.
Ingersoll, ON
Dr. D'Orazio is a Professional Engineer and holds a Certificate of Authorization with the PEO (Professional Engineers of Ontario) and APEGM (Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Manitoba) and APEGA (Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta) with over 30 years of industrial training and experience in the industry sector, agricultural sector, educational sector (post-secondary and trades), government sector (renewable energies) and private consulting – (The Elite Engineering Group Inc., P & L Holdings Ltd., Business Project Design Management Inc.).
He has a number of papers published and has presented at numerous conferences (research, quality, operations, health & safety and training), and holds a patent out of the United States. He is presently a full-time professor at Mohawk College and a sessional professor at McMaster University, both located in Hamilton, Ontario. Louie is the first professional engineer with a Ph.D. to carry a Maintenance Management Professional Designation through PEMAC (Plant Engineering & Maintenance Association of Canada) and is deemed as a "Building Envelop Expert" (Specialty in Engineering Litigation for Buildings and Total Building Commissioning, Recommissioning and Retrocommissioning). He also represents Canada as a Program Coordinator for NDE and a Key Professor for Metal Casting through Mohawk College.
Dr. D'Orazio also holds "Military Clearance" under the Control Goods Act, "Security Clearance" for NRCan/Canmet (minerals & materials) wrt Protected B Classification, and is becoming well known around the province for Alternative Energies and their Applications. He was also awarded Professor of the Year in 2010-2011 and took a group of students in 2013 to win 1st Place in the province (Discoveries Ontario) for Lean Optimization. He was also awarded the Mohawk College "Everyday Hero" Award (December 2019) for his continuous contribution to student success and experiential learning. Dr. D'Orazio also holds IBM Certifications Certification under IBM for Enterprise Design Thinking Certificate Certification under IBM for Enterprise Design Thinking Instructor Certification under IBM for Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner Dr. D'Orazio has also been recently certified as a Rife Practitioner (Homeopathic Approach – Teaching the Body To Heal Itself).
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