Energy is typically one of the largest controllable operating costs in an office block, hotel, hospital or campus, and it is also the main source of its carbon footprint. Many organisations know their bills but not what drives them, so efficiency projects are chosen by habit rather than evidence and savings are never verified.

The Professional Building Energy Performance & Decarbonisation Training Course gives practitioners an end-to-end workflow. It begins with data: metering, baselines and normalisation. It then moves to audits and the technical opportunities in cooling, ventilation, lighting, envelope and controls, before addressing the financial case, procurement of renewable supply and the planning of phased retrofits that avoid stranded investment.

Participants apply each step to a worked building case and bring their own consumption data where possible. The programme closes with a decarbonisation roadmap, a prioritised measures register and a monitoring plan that can be taken straight to management or a lender. Throughout, the emphasis is on credible numbers: assumptions are stated, uncertainty is shown and every saving claimed can be traced back to a measurement.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Establish energy baselines and normalise consumption for weather and occupancy.
• Benchmark building performance using energy use intensity and comparable data.
• Carry out walk-through and detailed energy audits of building systems.
• Evaluate retrofit measures using payback, net present value and life cycle cost.
• Integrate solar PV, heat pumps and electrification into a decarbonisation pathway.
• Calculate building emissions under Scope 1, 2 and relevant Scope 3 categories.
• Apply measurement and verification to confirm the savings that projects deliver.

The course is aimed at professionals who manage, design or finance building performance, including:

• Facilities and property managers
• Building services and mechanical engineers
• Energy managers and sustainability officers
• Architects and quantity surveyors working on retrofits
• Hotel, hospital and campus estate managers
• Real estate investors and asset managers
• Public sector infrastructure officers
• Energy service company and consultancy staff

Participants complete the programme with:

• A building energy baseline workbook with normalisation built in.
• An audit checklist covering HVAC, lighting, envelope and controls.
• A ranked register of energy conservation measures with costs and paybacks.
• A phased decarbonisation roadmap for a building or portfolio.
• A measurement and verification plan to prove savings after installation.
• Talking points for presenting an energy investment case to executives.

Learning is anchored in realistic building data. Delegates experience:

• A running case building used for each day of analysis
• Spreadsheet laboratories for baselines, paybacks and emissions
• Group audit planning and findings workshops
• Short technical briefings from consultants with retrofit experience
• Review of participants own consumption data where available

Delegates who attend all sessions and complete the exercises are issued with a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion by Vision Reach Global Consultancy.