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Chiller Management System design course
Train your engineers to design a best-in-class BMS chilled water control system that your sales team can take to market.
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 your company from its competitors.
Our courses build on the product training provided by BMS companies to develop engineers into professionals who justify repeat work, premium project fees, and drive business growth.
Self-paced online training course.
4h20m of video and 1h03m of audio lessons, and some text lessons.
Done-for-you Microsoft Word design templates.
One-off payment. No subscriptions, no expiry.
Suitable for individual engineers or team-wide rollout.
The outcome of completing this course (ROI)
Specialise in control strategy optimisation (energy efficiency). You will be able to write out an optimised Sequence of Operation (Description of Operation, Functional Description). A done-for-you Microsoft Word document is provided.
Audio explanations are provided to help you understand the purpose of each control strategy, so you can defend and justify your design and reduce rework.
Instantly improve the quality of your design technical submission and therefore the brand of the business.
Design advanced graphics that provide value to the building engineer, facility manager, sustainability engineer, and mechanical contractor. Sample sketches provided.
Design a new method to visualise alarms that generate insights and create discussion with the client and other stakeholders, leading to new opportunities.
Copy the done-for-you trend groups that are required for complex analysis and tuning.
Design chilled water system specific reports that allow clients, sustainability engineers and mechanical contractors to maximise the value of the BMS without needing to log in.
Build a product your company can sell (project revenue)
What is the return on investment (ROI) after doing this course? The challenge with traditional training is that it does not move the needle. I.e., you put 10 engineers on a training course, but nothing happens; the business does not make more money. This course will teach your engineers how to design and deliver a new product that your sales team can take to market.
The chiller control system is an excellent product to package up and offer to building owners and facility managers, as there is usually only one chiller water plant room and 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 design templates to cover most applications.
You could offer all your existing customers a chiller control system upgrade. I.e., the new chiller control system will use the same brand of controllers as the rest 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 am working on a BMS design (consulting) to provide a Niagara/Distech chiller control system for a building with a proprietary BMS. It was installed last week, and I am witnessing it remotely this week.
Increased maintenance revenue
A highly advanced chiller control system will facilitate a transition to optimised BMS maintenance. Now that technicians have access to engaging graphics, alarms, trends, and reports, and an understanding of how the control system works, they can perform more complex tuning tasks that justify premium maintenance contracts.
Sales funnel (new opportunities)
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.
A few years later, when the Microsoft Windows operating system becomes obsolete, you might have an opportunity to upgrade all the graphics, alarms, trends, and reports for the rest of the BMS. Over time, you get a chance to replace the obsolete BMS network controllers, then the main plant controllers, then the terminal unit controllers.
“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 I 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 control.
In my consulting business (80% of my working week), I develop BMS specifications, review BMS contractor technical submissions, witness completed projects, etc. I also project manage the projects I design.
This puts me in a unique situation where I have visibility into what everyone is doing. The experience I share in training courses is made up of 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 currently providing through BMS specialist consulting.
This exposure to the wider industry allows me to provide customised training courses that not only teach the technical side of BMS but also address current real-world issues and constraints in the industry.
I am not just teaching you what I learned, but the best of what everyone else is doing.
“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 gain in this course can be applied to other systems, e.g., AHUs. I.e., the concepts you learn in this course can be replicated for other HVAC (Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning) control systems.
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 gain many ideas for presenting 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.
“I know this may sound exaggerated, but I genuinely believe that this one course could trigger a complete change for a business. You are not just improving the efficiency of the chiller control system; you are completely changing what the BMS looks like: the graphics, alarms, trends, and reports, but also how people use it and, therefore, their opinion of the BMS contractor.”
Course Details
Self-paced online course.
4h20m of video and 1h03m of audio lessons, and some text lessons.
BMS design examples.
One-off payment. No subscriptions, no expiry.
Suitable for individual engineers or team-wide rollout.
AU$ 249 - Australian dollars
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 courses build on the product training provided by BMS companies to develop engineers into professionals who justify repeat work, premium project fees, and drive business growth.
