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Building services engineer
The MEP consultant's toolkit: electrical design for the loads, Revit MEP for the BIM model, DIALux evo for the lighting and a BMS course for how the building is controlled once built.
Step 1ElectricalBeginnerElectrical Design Engineering: Loads, Cables, Breakers and Distribution
How a building or plant electrical system is designed on paper before anyone buys a cable: AC and DC fundamentals, star and delta, power factor, connected and demand load, diversity and demand factors, load estimation in Excel, reading drawings, power factor correction, panel boards and single-line diagrams, fuses and circuit breakers with trip curves, AF and AT and breaking capacity, cable construction, derating, sizing and voltage drop, conduits, UPS, transfer switches and lightning protection.
- Revise AC, DC, star, delta, power and power factor
- Estimate loads with demand, diversity and load factors and build a load schedule
- Size capacitor banks and draw panel single-line diagrams
Step 2CADBeginnerRevit MEP: Electrical BIM, HVAC, Plumbing and Documentation
Building services in BIM the way consultants deliver it: starting an MEP project and template, linking the architectural model with levels, grids and scope boxes, building envelope, spaces and zones, HVAC air terminals and systems, electrical families for sockets, panels and isolators, panels, switchboards and circuiting, panel schedules and load calculations, lighting plans, data, CCTV and access control, cable trays, power drawings and one-line diagrams, plumbing, piping and fire protection, views, annotations, sheets and printing, and worksharing.
- Start a Revit MEP project and link the architectural model correctly
- Place spaces, zones, air terminals and HVAC systems
- Build electrical families and circuit sockets, lighting and panels
Step 3Electrical CADBeginnerDIALux evo Lighting Design: Interior, Daylight and Documentation
Professional lighting simulation with the free industry tool: interface and settings, importing DWG plans, building outlines, rooms, floors, doors, windows and roofs, spaces, ceilings, cut-outs and stairs, furniture and materials, luminaire catalogues and selection, automatic arrangement and lux calculation, lighting fundamentals with CRI and manual calculation, daylight, architectural techniques with cove and linear luminaires, raytraced images, documentation and export to AutoCAD, and a complete house project.
- Import plans and model buildings, rooms, openings and roofs in DIALux evo
- Furnish and assign materials with correct reflectances
- Select luminaires from catalogues and arrange them to hit lux and uniformity
Step 4Building automationBeginnerBuilding Management Systems (BMS): HVAC Control, BACnet and Building Automation
How a modern building is controlled: BMS overview, components and architecture, sensors, actuators, controllers and field devices, BACnet, Modbus, LonWorks and KNX, HVAC applications for AHUs, chillers, cooling towers and boilers, pumps, tanks and hot water, lighting, access, CCTV, fire and energy integration, DDC panels, wiring and control logic, the front end with graphics, trends, schedules and alarms, testing, commissioning and handover, BACnet with Python, and case studies from hotels to data centres.
- Explain BMS architecture, components and field devices
- Design I/O point lists and choose protocols
- Write sequences of operation for AHUs, chillers, boilers and pumps
How the path works
Join the path and every course is added to your account at once, each with its own progress, notes, quizzes and final. Take them in the order shown: each assumes the one before. Module quizzes are five plain questions and the final is twenty, pass mark 50%, with unlimited retries, so the assessment checks that you followed the lessons rather than testing exam nerves.
Questions
- Is the Building services engineer free?
- Yes. Every course in the path is free in full: lessons, notes, practice tasks and assessments. Joining the path adds all of them to your account in one step. The only paid item is the optional EDWartens Certificate of Completion for each course.
- In what order should I take the courses?
- In the order listed: each course assumes the one before it. Every course keeps its own progress, quizzes and certificate, so you can also take one on its own.
- Do I get one certificate for the whole path?
- Certificates are per course, issued when you pass that course's final assessment and bought only if you want them. Finishing every course in a path gives you one certificate per course.