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Chiller Management System design course
Learn how to design a best-in-class BMS chilled water control system.
Welcome to the Chiller Management System (CMS) design course
This course will teach you how to design the control strategies (control sequences, Description of Operations, Functional Description), graphics, alarms, trends, and reports. The visualisation of the chiller control system is an extremely powerful part of this course. If you just develop, say, 50% of what you learn here, you will have a product that differentiates you and your company from your competitors.
Our Building Management System (BMS) training courses expand on the product training provided by BMS companies to develop engineers into professionals who justify repeat work, higher fees, and higher profits.
Self-paced online training course.
Video, audio and text lessons.
Done-for-you Microsoft Word design templates.
One-off payment.
Lifetime access (for as long as the training business exists).
Build a product your company can sell
The chiller control system is an excellent product to package up and offer to building owners and facility managers. There is usually one chiller water plant room and therefore only one control panel to work in. Unlike AHU projects, where you need to work in multiple locations. You can package up two or three different control panel designs that cover most applications.
You could offer all your existing customers a chiller control system upgrade. I.e., the new chiller control system will be the same BMS brand as the remainder of the BMS. But you can also upgrade the chiller controls in other buildings with different BMS systems. This is what chiller manufacturers have been doing for over 20 years. Right now, as I type this, I did a BMS design (consulting) to provide a Niagara/Distech chiller control system in a building that has a proprietary BMS. It was installed last week, and I am remotely witnessing this week.
I am telling you now, if you deploy what I teach in this course on a handful of your existing sites, you are likely to get opportunities to upgrade the chiller controls in other buildings in your client's portfolio. Boom, that is your foot in the door.
Other than generating project revenue, plus service revenue to maintain this advanced control system, it is also kind of like a sales funnel, as it generates leads for other chiller control system upgrades, which then, over time, roll into upgrading the original whole building’s BMS.
“What you do, who you do it with, and how you do it, is more important than how hard you work.
I don’t just teach you the technical stuff; I teach you how to leverage technical concepts to generate real value for you, your company, and the client. ”
What you learn here can be expanded to other systems
A large portion of the knowledge you learn in this chilled water control system course can be used for other systems, e.g., AHUs.
Design format: I am going to teach you a new way to lay out your control strategy document. For 90% of you, the formatting of my document is better than your current document. So, you can rewrite all your other systems in the same format. Your design (Word document) will be more impressive and professional.
Graphics, alarms, trends, and reports: No matter how experienced you are. You could have 30 years of experience. Everyone will get many ideas on how to present BMS data in a new and engaging way. These new techniques can be expanded to other systems as the concept still applies. So, from this one course, you could apply what you learn here to cooling towers, boilers, AHUs, etc., and completely change the quality of the BMS product you and your company provide.
“Stop trying to win work by reducing your fees. Start winning work by providing a premium product. This is what I do in my BMS consulting business. I am a one-person business, but charge the same fees as global, tier-1, all services consultancies. Because I provide a higher quality BMS upgrade consulting product. ”
Bryce Anderson
For the first 15 years of my career (1998-2013), I worked for BMS companies (2 years in South Africa, 9 years in London, and 4 years in Australia). For the next +10 years (from 2014 onwards), I have worked as a BMS specialist consultant. I originally studied electronic engineering, specialising in process instrumentation and controls.
In my consulting business (80% of my working week), I am designing (writing specifications), reviewing BMS contractor technical submissions, witnessing and signing off BMS projects from all major BMS systems and a wide range of different BMS companies, from global tier-1 manufacturers to smaller system integrators.
This puts me in a unique situation where I have visibility into what everyone is doing. The experience I share in the membership is made up from my own personal 15 years designing BMS systems, writing software code, commissioning, service and project management (across 3 different regions), plus the best parts of what the industry is providing.
This exposure to the wider industry allows me to provide customised training courses that not only teach the technical side of the BMS but also address current real-life issues and constraints in the Building Management System industry.
I am not just teaching you what I learned, but the best of what everyone else is doing.
Testimonials
Do not leave your career up to your employer
Some people believe their company should pay for their training and allocate time during the working day to do the courses. Let’s unpack this for a minute.
Your company is already paying for your salary, leave pay, sick pay, laptop, mobile phone, car, uniform, and other benefits. They also have other overheads, like office rent, utilities, insurance, administration staff, etc. They pay for other types of non-technical training (health and safety, etc.), AND they pay for product training (5-day programming course, etc.).
I think that is enough. Why should they also pay for your personal professional development? Company managers, feel that you should contribute to your own personal growth, invest in your own career, and I agree.
We work for money. To buy nice things. To live in a nice house. To have nice holidays. It’s up to us, it’s up to YOU, to invest in YOUR career. Why on earth would your employer invest extra time and money, over and above what they are already investing in you, so that you can double your salary? YOU need to invest in your career to double your salary.
What this course is NOT
This is NOT a software programming course. You need to take programming courses provided by the manufacturer of the products your company uses. There are many different BMS systems worldwide, and more are entering the market each year. It is impractical for me to try to teach you how to code in 20 different languages and keep up with updates, new revisions, firmware, and features. (I was only trained on about 4 products when I was on the tools).
I will teach you how to design the chiller control system, how to visualise data, and develop new products and solutions to real-world problems (what we currently offer is embarrassing), but I am not going to teach you how to convert the design you learn from me into software code. Believe me, the coding part is the easy part.
This course is not associated with any BMS product or company.
BMS Companies generally teach their engineers how to use the engineering tools. How to write software code, build database, and create graphics, etc.
It’s not 1995, product training alone is no longer enough.
We need to raise the profile of BMS companies and their engineers.
Our training courses expand on the basic product training provided by companies to develop engineers into professionals that justify repeat work, higher fees, and higher profits.
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