About the BEC
The BEC program teaches professionals the necessary skills to enable the implementation of sustainability efforts in the built environment touching on key learning objectives in electrical systems, HVAC, air quality, water treatment, alarm systems, and energy management.
What Will I Learn?
Certificate graduates will know how to:
- Understand foundational concepts
- Reduce energy consumption
- Implement sustainability efforts
- Broaden career opportunities
BEC Course Requirements
Choose the flexible course delivery option that works best for you - online self-paced, collaborative virtual learning, accelerated review, or facilitated classroom setting (where applicable and available). To achieve your certificate, you must complete all three courses and achieve a grade of 70% or higher on each course exam.
Ready to get started? Click any of the courses below to register, email [email protected] or call 1.800.235.2664 for more information.
Air Handling, Water Treatment, and Plumbing Systems
Maintain HVAC systems, water sample analysis, testing, and treatment, install and monitor pipes and valves, and fire protection systems.
Electrical Systems and Illumination
Understand fundamental concepts of electricity and circuitry, measure consumption, trace power paths, learn about block diagrams, schematics, installation drawings, and other construction drawings, understand various types of wires, cables, splices, and conduit, circuit protection, measurement, efficiency, maintenance, and resource conservation, install, monitor, and maintain motors and starters, and practice life-saving safety procedures.
Energy Management and Controls
Apply an energy management plan to your building’s systems, evaluate and retrofit new systems, integrate traditional and alternative energy systems, optimize systems with programmable logic controllers, and develop, implement, and manage an innovative preventive maintenance program