BAS Startup and Checkout

Course Description

In this fully online course building automation professionals learn how to install, set up, configure and checkout building automation systems. Utilizing the 32 cheat sheets, checklists, and exercises provided in the course students will follow a controls submittal (included) as they mount, wire, power, configure, and checkout building automation controls and configure the front-end and GUI.

Length (hours)

24

Audience

This course is targeted towards technicians, designers, operators, and commissioning agents who have at least 12 months of experience with BAS systems or who have been through our Building Automation Fundamentals course.

Pre-Requisite Knowledge

Fundamental awareness of the parts and pieces of BAS. Basic IT Knowledge.

Objectives

• Install and configure supervisory devices, controllers, and inputs and outputs
• Configure a full system tree to include point mapping, communication trunks, point extensions, and graphics.
• Demonstrate the ability to perform point-to-point checkout, functional tests, and documentation closeout.

Key Topics

• Conduct a sales to operations hand off
• Review project documents and identify key information for proper project execution
• Create Point-to-point checkout sheets
• Understand the impact of loaded and unloaded circuits on controllers
• Properly wire power for multiple controllers, inputs, and outputs
• Perform trunk wiring and termination
• Demonstrate the ability to create a controller addressing scheme
• Demonstrate the ability to research controller configurations
• Demonstrate the ability to externally configure a controller
• Demonstrate how to wire and test dry contact (status), resistive, voltage, and current inputs
• Demonstrate how to wire and test internally sourced, externally sourced, voltage, and current outputs
• Learn the three different kinds of recovery systems, how they are controlled, and the effect they have on other systems.
• Demonstrate the ability to conduct and document a point-to-point checkout
• Describe the common network requirements of a BAS network
• Demonstrate how to setup a supervisory device