I need CEUs this quarter, but I’m tired of vendor webinars that gloss over design and don’t help me cut kWh/ton or defend ROI to owners. Any recommendations for courses with real depth on chilled-water plant optimization, advanced controls (reset/FDD), and 90.1/IECC updates - ideally with case studies, calculators, and O&M impacts (ASHRAE, utility programs, Cx orgs)?
University of Wisconsin-Madison EPD has chilled-water plant design/operation and advanced controls courses with real case studies, part-load kW/ton spreadsheets, and O&M change impacts, and they issue CEUs. Pair that with ASHRAE Learning Institute’s Guideline 36 sequences class plus the 90.1-2022/IECC 2024 update courses; BCxA’s EBCx 100/200 and CxEnergy sessions also dig into RCx/FDD with measured results and payback math. If you share your region, I can point you to the best utility trainings (e.g., NYSERDA, ComEd) that include calculators and owner-facing ROI templates.
Do you have trend data you can export to CSV this quarter? I got the most mileage from UW–Madison EPD’s advanced controls class; if you bring 2–3 weeks of chilled/condenser water trends, their part‑load kW/ton spreadsheet lets you trial CW reset and valve limit tweaks and spits out a clean ROI you can defend to an owner.
I got real traction pairing ASHRAE Learning Institute’s Guideline 36 workshop with BCxA’s Existing Building Cx — actual sequences/FDD rules, O&M deltas, and a take-home payback template (felt like trading slides for wrenches). For 90.1/IECC, PNNL’s update sessions include impact tables you can drop into an owner deck; want the specific course names I used?