Buildings use a large share of the electricity consumed in most cities, and much of it is wasted through oversized plant, poor controls, leaky envelopes and habits that no one has measured. For owners, wasted energy is a direct hit on net operating income. For occupiers and investors, it is increasingly a reputational and financing question as carbon reporting and green lending criteria spread.

This programme follows the path a building manager takes from data to decarbonisation. Participants start with energy accounting: reading bills, installing meters, cleaning interval data and calculating performance indicators for comparison across a portfolio. They then examine how energy is used in major building systems, learn to run a structured audit, and prioritise measures by cost, savings and disruption. The later sessions address on-site renewables, procurement of cleaner power, carbon accounting and the governance needed to keep savings from eroding after a project ends.

Teaching relies on sample building data, audit templates and a site walk-through exercise. Participants complete a baseline, a short list of costed measures and a phased roadmap for a building or portfolio they manage.

After the training, participants will be able to:

• Establish an energy and carbon baseline for a building using bills, meters and interval data.
• Benchmark performance with energy use intensity and normalise for weather and occupancy.
• Conduct a walk-through energy audit of HVAC, lighting, envelope and plant.
• Evaluate retrofit options using payback, net present value and life-cycle cost.
• Optimise building management system settings and operating schedules.
• Assess opportunities for rooftop solar and cleaner power procurement.
• Calculate building emissions following the GHG Protocol scopes.
• Develop a phased decarbonisation roadmap with measurement and verification.

The programme is aimed at those who own, operate or advise on buildings, such as:

• Facilities and property managers
• Building services and mechanical or electrical engineers
• Real estate asset and portfolio managers
• Energy and sustainability officers in corporations
• Public works and county estate managers
• Hotel, hospital and university engineering managers
• Green building consultants and quantity surveyors
• Developers and lenders assessing building performance

Each participant takes away:

• A building energy baseline workbook with normalisation formulas.
• An audit checklist for the main energy-using systems.
• A ranked register of efficiency measures with costs and savings.
• A greenhouse gas inventory template for building operations.
• A draft decarbonisation roadmap with milestones.
• A measurement and verification outline to prove savings.

The course is hands-on and uses real building data wherever possible. It includes:

• Spreadsheet labs on baselining, benchmarking and payback calculation
• A guided walk-through audit with structured observation sheets
• Case files of retrofitted buildings showing costs and measured savings
• Group work building a retrofit priority list
• Individual feedback on each participant's roadmap

On completing all sessions and the practical work, each participant receives a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion from Vision Reach Global Consultancy, recording the programme title and dates attended.