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Preventive Maintenance of Facilities

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Apr 8 - 9, 2025 /
Course Code: 15-0415-ONL25

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  • Overview
  • Syllabus
  • Instructor

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

After participating in this course, you will be able to:

  • Effectively balance various building maintenance and upgrade tasks, leading to a more efficient and robust facility management system.
  • Enhance maintenance effectiveness by mastering the intricate details of the diverse components that make a facility operational.
  • Apply advanced contract and warranty administration skills, ensuring projects are completed smoothly and to the highest standards.
  • Address and prevent issues related to indoor air quality, environmental concerns, and energy conservation before they become costly.
  • Implement cost-saving strategies and techniques to optimize your maintenance budget, achieving significant savings without compromising quality.

Description
Efficiently managing facility maintenance while adhering to budget constraints is a common challenge for facility managers. This course provides the knowledge and skills needed to select among repair, refurbish, or replace alternatives for building components. Effective maintenance extends the useful life of your facility and minimizes breakdowns, costly repairs, and system downtime. By applying preventive maintenance strategies, you can ensure smooth operations, improve indoor air quality, address environmental issues, and promote energy conservation.

In this course, you will learn how to balance a wide range of building maintenance and upgrade tasks, enhance maintenance effectiveness by understanding the intricate details of diverse facility components, and apply advanced contract and warranty administration skills. You will also discover methods to address and prevent indoor air quality, environmental concerns, and energy conservation issues. Cost-saving strategies and techniques to optimize your maintenance budget will also be covered.

The instructor will guide you through these topics using prescribed, recommended, and tested procedures, providing practical, actionable insights. By dedicating less than one percent of your annual working hours, you will gain valuable ideas for considerable savings and improved facility management.

Who Should Attend
This course is ideal for a wide range of professionals dedicated to ensuring the optimal operation of their facilities. Whether you're an owner of a facility, a director or manager of commercial properties, hospitals, industrial institutions, a building designer, architect, building operator, or facility manager, this course will equip you with invaluable skills.

Maintenance personnel, supervisors, builders, contractors, engineers, property management consultants, environmental health and safety officers, energy managers, and sustainability coordinators will all benefit from the advanced strategies and knowledge provided.

Enhance your maintenance strategies and achieve substantial savings by joining this course, designed for those committed to excellence in facility management.

More Information

Time: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Eastern Time


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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

Louie D'Orazio, B.Sc.Eng., M.Sc.Eng., EMBA, MMP., Ph.D., P.Eng.

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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Fee & Credits

$1295 + taxes

  • 1.4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
  • 14 Continuing Professional Development Hours (PDHs/CPDs)
  • ECAA Annual Professional Development Points
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