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Course: GFM 102 Technical Aspects of Energy, Resources & Conservation > Section: GFM 102 Technical Aspects of Energy, Resources & Conservation

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Steps To Efficient Building Energy Operations

As we near the conclusion of this course, it is only fitting that we review our seven previous learning units:

- Unit 1 – An introduction (glossary) to a better understanding of energy conservation/facility-related terms and definitions;
- Unit 2 – Energy fundamentals with all those various finite/fossil fuel and infinite/renewable fuel characteristics;
- Unit 3 – Understanding how utility companies charge for their services, and deciphering those periodic energy statements into everyday (and readily understandable) terms;
- Unit 4 – The quick steps necessary for energy accounting and where that leads us into judging our building energy performance, and begin a process to improving operations, and thus saving money;
- Unit 5 – Building data analysis places our facility in a variety of arenas… Each quantifiable set leads us to better understand what is happening;
- Unit 6 – Benchmarking our building performance against similar buildings to compare energy efficiencies… Carefully benchmarking so we can identify areas for real (versus imagined) improvement;
- Unit 7 – Utilizing simple trend analyses give us another sets of data to further reinforce that we are making the right energy discoveries and responding accordingly;

This Unit (8) is prepares the student for pulling together those many facets of BUILDING ENERGY CONSERVATION.
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