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A four-day course delivered online. Work through it day by day and module by module in short lessons drawn from the course notes, and practise fault finding in the virtual fault-finding simulator.
By the end of the programme, candidates should be able to approach a BMS installation with a drawing, points schedule and test equipment and begin working through the system in a structured and technically informed manner. The course is focused on practical BMS engineering rather than manufacturer-specific product training.
Entry requirements: You must be working in the mechanical and electrical (M&E) side of the construction industry. Some BMS experience is preferred.
Understand how a BMS is structured, identify control-panel components, understand BMS I/O, interpret drawings and apply the electrical principles required for safe BMS pre-commissioning.
What a Building Management System is, what it monitors and controls, and how it relates to the mechanical and electrical services in a building.
How supervisors, networks, control panels, controllers, I/O modules, field devices and plant fit together, and how information and commands move through the system.
Digital and analogue inputs and outputs, universal I/O, common signal types, command versus status, and the physical device behind every BMS point.
Controllers, I/O modules, power supplies, terminals, relays, contactors, protection, Hand/Off/Auto, HMIs and wiring, and how each I/O type is routed through the panel.
Using real control-panel drawing sets as a practical tool: legends, the panel/field demarcation line, terminal and relay references, cross-references and revisions.
The electrical knowledge needed to prove BMS circuits: safety and safe isolation, AC/DC, voltage, continuity, contacts, 24 V supplies, commons and references, 0–10 V, 4–20 mA and thermistors.
Apply Day 1 knowledge to circuit tracing, electrical testing, fault finding and hardwired point-to-point verification of BMS field devices, and practise the methods in the virtual fault-finding simulator.
Using a BMS drawing to trace circuits between the panel and field devices, and knowing what to compare between the drawing and the installation on site.
How to use a multimeter safely and systematically on BMS circuits — 24 V AC/DC, continuity, volt-free contacts, relays, 0–10 V, thermistors — and how to locate faults in the panel, field wiring or device. Online, the meter methods are practised in the simulator.
The five practical stations — temperature sensors, analogue transmitters, digital inputs, modulating actuators and structured fault diagnosis — as worked examples, with the temperature, analogue and fault-diagnosis methods practised in the simulator.
Learn how to configure, connect, prove and fault-find an RS-485 / Modbus RTU field network using issued project information and a structured pre-commissioning process, and practise in the simulator.
How to configure, connect, prove and fault-find Modbus RTU field devices on an RS-485 network, from a healthy network to common network faults, practised online in the simulator's RS-485 / Modbus pack.
Prepare for the final multiple-choice exam and learn to produce clear commissioning records, defect reports and blocker records suitable for project handover.
Online delegates are assessed through end-of-module assessments and a final multiple-choice exam. There is no practical assessment on the online course.
[PLACEHOLDER: end-of-module assessment and final multiple-choice exam details (format, pass mark, how to sit them)]
The online course doesn't include hands-on electrical testing, and completing it does not by itself establish practical competence or authorization to work on electrical systems.
Completing commissioning records from the Equipment Schedule and Points Schedule, recording defects and blockers, and knowing when a point can legitimately be signed off.