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Energy Efficiency Essentials
Rating: 4.3 out of 5(12 ratings)
21 students
Created byArman Sarkisian
Last updated 1/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Identify key stakeholders in the built environment and understand their roles and responsibilities in driving sustainability.
  • Understand the unique challenges and opportunities for different building typologies.
  • Identify major energy-consuming components and prioritise improvement areas.
  • Understand the importance of metering and monitoring energy use.
  • Evaluate different levels of metering granularity and their impact on decision-making.
  • Learn how to structure a robust business case for energy efficiency projects.
  • Avoid pitfalls that can weaken the case for energy efficiency investments.
  • Discover strategies for grouping energy efficiency opportunities for better clarity and impact.
  • Learn key report presentation techniques to effectively communicate energy efficiency benefits.
  • Understand how rating tools assess energy and sustainability performance
  • Familiarise yourself with widely used building rating tools, such as NABERS and Green Star. This component is relevant mostly to Australian Audience.

Course content

1 section • 9 lectures • 1h 34m total length

  • Master Class Introduction2:07

    Explore energy efficiency concepts and terminology for built environment professionals, covering building types, metering granularity, and crafting compelling business cases with executive summaries, and insights into Australian building rating tools.

  • Built Environment Stakeholders19:50

    Map the key built environment stakeholders: tenants, facility managers, asset managers, ESG teams, and project managers, and align their roles to deliver energy efficiency projects.

  • General Building Services Overview4:30

    Identify how building inputs (electricity, gas, renewables, materials, people, and controls) produce outputs like lighting, HVAC, hot water, and on-site generation, to drive energy efficiency.

  • Adapting Energy Efficiency to Different Building Types23:21

    Adapt energy efficiency measures to ten building classes from the Building Code of Australia, analyzing operation, stakeholders, and restrictions to tailor solutions for each type.

  • Energy End Use Breakdown8:44

    Break down a facility’s energy end uses with submetering and main meters to quantify lighting, hvac, and hot water, and assess materiality for energy efficiency measures.

  • Metering Coverage and Granularity Levels4:36

    Explore metering coverage from facility to subsystem, detailing end-uses like HVAC, lighting, power, and domestic hot water. Start with utility metering and ensure expandable, integrable subsystems for future granularity.

  • What Makes a Compelling Energy Efficiency Business Case?20:35

    Identify the key elements of a compelling energy efficiency business case, including problem or opportunity, benefits, costs and investment metrics, risk and mitigation, and operations impact.

  • Common Building Rating Tools9:13

    Explore common building rating tools like NIBIS, BEEC, and GreenStar, and learn how these performance-based star ratings normalize energy, water, waste, and indoor environment across climates to enable apples-to-apples comparisons.

  • Recap1:36

    Summarizes key topics for built environment professionals, including stakeholders, building services, energy efficiency across building types, metering and granularity, and energy rating tools.

Requirements

  • A general interest or experience in engineering, facilities management, environmental science or related fields will help learners grasp concepts more effectively.
  • Basic computer skills, including proficiency in using spreadsheets (e.g. Excel) and the ability to generate and review reports.
  • Willingness to Learn Sustainability Concepts: An openness to learning about sustainability, energy efficiency and environmental impact as they relate to energy audits.

Description

This course is designed to equip professionals with foundational knowledge and practical tools to promote energy efficiency and sustainability within the built environment. Whether you are new to the field or looking to enhance your understanding, this entry-level course offers a comprehensive introduction to key concepts and practices.

Participants will explore a range of topics, beginning with an overview of built environment stakeholders and their roles in driving sustainability initiatives. The course introduces essential concepts and terminology, including building services, energy end-use breakdowns and metering coverage, providing participants with a solid framework for understanding energy consumption and management.

A key focus is placed on tailoring energy efficiency strategies to different building types, addressing the unique challenges and opportunities in commercial, hospitality, retail and industrial settings. Participants will also be introduced to widely used building rating tools in Australia, such as NABERS and Green Star, offering a practical approach to assessing and benchmarking sustainability performance.

One of the course’s highlights is its emphasis on creating compelling energy efficiency business cases. Participants will learn how to structure and present energy efficiency findings, avoid common pitfalls, group opportunities for greater impact and use effective visual report presentation techniques to engage stakeholders and secure buy-in

Who this course is for:

  • This course is designed for professionals and newcomers alike who are interested in understanding the fundamentals of energy audits and how they can be applied to drive efficiency and sustainability.
  • It is ideal for facility managers, engineers, sustainability coordinators, environmental consultants and anyone looking to expand their knowledge of energy management.

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