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BMS Professional Development Membership

The BMS professional development membership expands on the product training provided by BMS companies to develop engineers into professionals who justify repeat work, higher fees, and higher profits.

New content published monthly.
Self-paced online training courses.
Done-for-you Microsoft Word, Excel, and Visio design templates.
Workshops.
Q&A Sessions.
Coaching and mentoring.
BMS Community forum.
All live sessions will be recorded for remote learners.
If there are enough numbers to justify it, live sessions can be run in different time zones.
Lock in the $35 per month foundation member price now. When membership fees increase in the future, you will stay on the fee you started with.
AU$ 35 per month is approximately US$ 23, GBP 18, EUR 22.
No minimum commitment, cancel anytime.

AU$ 35 per month (cancel anytime)

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Why should you invest in yourself?

Initially, the membership will cost AU$ 35 per month (AU$ 420 per year). If you invested in your professional development for 10 years, it would cost you AU$ 4,200.

AU$ 4,200 is not a lot of money over 10 years when considering how much more money you could earn, or that promotion you could secure, or that dream job you could negociate.

I asked Chat GPT how much money I would make if I invested $35 per month for 10 years. Answer: If you invest $35 per month for 10 years at an 8% annual interest rate (compounded monthly), the future value of your investment would be approximately $6,403 ($4,200 + $2,203).

Investing in yourself, in your career, is a no-brainer!

If you invest $35 per month for 10 years in the markets, your profit would only be $2,203. If you invested the same amount in your career, your first years salary increase could be higher than what the markets would return over 10 years. And massivly higher over 10 years. $30k? $50k? $80k? My salary has gone up AU$ 100k in the past 10 years.

I am going to compress my +25-year learning curve down to 5-10 years for you. This will help you significantly shorten your salary growth timeline.

That makes sense! Take me to the membership

“What you do, who you do it with, how you do it, is more important than how hard you work. Let me teach you how to play the game.”

COURSE LEADER

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 instrumentation and process 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 learnt, but the best of what everyone else is doing.

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Testimonials

"I believe Bryce to be one of the best thinkers in our industry. His approach comes from years of hands-on experience and accumulated industry knowledge. It appeals to me because it makes sense and works on a practical level. I have found myself rethinking how we do things because of his content. I think the BMS membership is worthwhile and very valuable."

Kent Flowers - President
"This BMS membership is incredibly valuable and helped me improve the quality of the BMS design by incorporating ideas shared by Bryce. Bryce doesn't only teach technical concepts but he encourages you to think about how you can improve the quality and efficiency of what you are doing. He is doing a great job by sharing his experience which surely will help to shorten the learning curve of anyone in the field."

Abdul Rehman Zafar - Controls Engineer
"I signed up for the BMS membership this year to dive deeper into the topics Bryce is passionate about as well as areas like networking that are more technical. Working for a developer/operator, I oversee the tender design and then the BMS contractors submissions, delivery and operation during DLP. The suggestions and advice will in my opinion help all parties come together to achieve better outcomes. I think there is great content in the BMS membership that can help BMS contractors deliver better outcomes more efficiently and impress the contractors and building owners they are working for."

Olly Base - Senior Services Design Manager
"Bryce’s BMS Membership and learning platform is a great space for both newcomers and experienced BMS professionals. Each month is a new set of topics that have been thought provoking and provide new insights into how things can be achieved within our profession."

Ryan Joyce - Senior Project Engineer

Do not leave your career up to your employer

Some people think their company should pay for their training and allocate time during the working day to do the courses (like this membership). 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.

This is why the membership has a low fee. It is genuinely worth more, but I am trying to give you a way, a path, to grow.

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.

I am ready to invest in my career - take me to the membership!

Current courses/topics

Below is a sample of courses/topics that we are currently discussing. Most modules are complete end-to-end courses. Some are placeholders for adding lessons as questions come up. E.g., the Maintenance course was created to hold a BMS annual maintenance fee proposal template for companies to use. In time, it will become a complete course. The same applies to the Optimisation Projects course, control strategies are discussed in other control system courses, the Optimisation course, at the moment, just holds the Measurement and Verification chapter.

Foundation members: Sign up today and lock in this price forever

The fee will likely increase in the future when I need to employ more people to manage onboarding and moderate the community forum, etc. The fee you start on is the fee you stay on. Don’t wait 1 year to sign up.

As the membership evolves, it will likely spilt into different tiers (e.g., basic, standard and pro). The foundation members that sign up now will always stay on the highest paid tier for the same price they started on.

AU$ 35 per month - Australian dollar per month (cancel anytime)

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BMS Companies generally teach their engineers how to use the engineering tools. How to write software code, build database, and create graphics, etc.
However, product training alone is no longer enough.
The industry is getting more complicated, and customers have higher expectations.
The membership expands on the basic product training provided by companies to develop engineers into professionals that justify repeat work, higher fees, and higher profits.

Why did I create the membership?

I have tried many different ways to help the BMS industry.

Live in-person technical training at BMS companies offices, for their staff only (pre 2020).
Live in-person open sessions, where I hired a room with a mixture of people from different companies (pre 2020).
Live virtual training courses (Zoom, MS Teams).
Pre-recorded self-paced online courses.
One-to-one live weekly coaching.
Done-for-you digital products.

Each of these methods had different advantages and disadvantages. But there were still three main issues:

They weren’t cheap enough for an individual to pay for themselves with their own personal money. The cost was fine for a company but not for an individual. The last batch of courses I ran cost AU$ 2,500 each (in time, all that content will find its way into the membership for free). Companies would pay, but an individual was not going to pay from their own savings. So, I needed a solution that was cheap enough for an individual to pay, rather than relying on companies to train their staff.
My personal opinion (not a fact) is that a high percentage of people fall back to business as usual 6 months after a training course. It’s human nature. So, I wanted a solution that had continual reinforcement. I wanted a long-term product. I wanted people’s attention for more than just a few weeks. The membership is never-ending.
No matter how much time I put into a training course, it was not possible or practical to cover everything about that topic. There needs to be compounding knowledge growth on each topic, year after year. E.g., energy efficiency and control strategy optimisation is extremely complicated, it can not be taught in a start-and-finish course. We have to build on this every year. Layer more and more on every year, going deeper and deeper every year. The membership creates a never-ending learning experience.

The membership solves the three roadblocks of traditional training. It is cheap enough for an individual to pay for themselves. It provides a long-term learning path. There is time to layer on complex topics as engineers/managers move through their careers.

What do you get out of this?

The membership does not upsell into more expensive courses. Everything is included. For one low monthly fee, you get everything I produce.
E.g., the project management for engineers course and the BMS for mechanical consultants have been moved over into the membership. The currently free advanced optimisation courses are being duplicated and expanded on in the membership. Existing digital products are being integrated into lessons in the membership. I.e., within a year, there will be no separate courses or digital products relevant to BMS engineers and managers. Everything becomes the membership. A one-stop shop for everything you need.
The majority of the membership is technical content. However, I will explain how to convert technical knowledge into value for your client, your company, and you personally. How to take technical topics (learnings) and leverage that new knowledge to make lots of money for your company. When you make your company money, you get rewarded.
The membership will improve your personal brand. You will become an expert in your company. You will be overtaking people with more experience than you (unless they are also in the membership, lol).
The membership module within the learning management system that I pay for has a community forum. I don’t know exactly how it works as I haven’t used it before. But, there is a community aspect to the membership. It is possible that this will grow into something of high value, where people can ask each other questions and share solutions and designs, etc. But we will see how it plays out.

What the membership is not

There are no software programming courses. You need to take controller 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 an AHU 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 BMS, 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.

The membership program is not associated with any BMS product or company.