The purpose of the Large Buildings Re-Tuning Training Course is to help building operations staff to learn how to operate buildings more efficiently, reduce operating cost and provide energy savings by leveraging data collected from the BAS and correcting those problems at no-cost or low-cost. The knowledge and skills learned through the training will be highly valued by organizations and companies seeking to improve the performance of their buildings.

The intended audience for the building re-tuning training includes:

• onsite employees responsible for day-to-day building operations,
• offsite contractors (retro-commissioning agents or control vendors) hired to improve a building's energy efficiency, and
• people interested in entering this field, including college students and military veterans.

The focus is on large (>100,000 sq. ft.) commercial buildings (office buildings, malls, and schools) with a BAS, but the concepts and techniques presented can be applied to any type and size of facility that has a BAS.

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Chapter 1: Understand the purpose of re-tuning, definition of building re-tuning and what to expect from the re-tuning training class.

Chapter 2: Understand that re-tuning is the process of learning about a building and then making incremental adjustments to achieve more desirable results.

Chapter 3: Understand the information needed.

Chapter 4: Understand how to use the Energy Charting and Metrics tool.

Chapter 5: Learn how to re-tune air-handling units (AHUs).

Chapter 6: Understand economizer operations.

Chapter 7: Understand terminal units.

Chapter 8: Understand central plants.

Chapter 9: Conduct a thorough building "walk down."

Chapter 10: Re-tune the building based on specific findings.

Instructors' Manual: Provides additional information on what to highlight in each of the re-tuning slides. The manual is intended for instructors providing re-tuning training or teaching re-tuning to community college students focusing on building operations. The manual is intended for lecture discussion and also provides information on how to conduct hands-on in-the-field training. Each page in the main portion of the guide is a representation of a training slide. Below each slide are notes to the instructors and talking points.