GPRO Operations & Maintenance Essentials | January 25, 26 & 27, 2023

ABOUT THIS COURSE:

GPRO Operations & Maintenance Essentials (O&M) provides building professionals with strategies to reduce energy use while improving tenant comfort and health. Participants leave with at least three immediately actionable measures and the next steps needed to achieve them.

This three-day online course is ideal for property managers and building staff in both residential and high-rise commercial buildings, including: building superintendents, operators, facility and property managers, operating engineers and stationary engineers.

COURSE SCHEDULE:
This class session will be held virtually over zoom.

Day 1: Tuesday, January 25, 9:00am - 1:00pm

Day 2: Wednesday, January 26, 9:00am - 1:00pm

Day 3: Thursday, January 27, 9:00am - 1:00pm

WHAT STUDENTS LEARN:

• Take a systemic approach to operating and maintaining a building.

• Evaluate building performance.

• Identify at least three immediately actionable measures that will improve building health, energy or water efficiency of your building and the next steps needed to achieve them.

• Explain the costs and benefits of those measures.

NEW: Registration includes access to 3 on-demand bonus classes for a deeper dive into cutting edge O&M topics like Local Law 97, green procurement, waste management, energy audits, and financing energy upgrades.

Registration also includesa course e-book and the online exam session. Students who pass the exam with an 80% or higher become a GPRO Certificate Holder.

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS: 

-GBCI: Approved for 12 CE Credits

- AIA CES: Approved for 12 LU/HSW Hours

- PDH: 12 Credits

If you are unable to attend your scheduled course date, sign up for a future class at no additional cost by emailing gpro@urbangreencouncil.org. We understand that your plans may change and are happy to refund your registration fee within 90 days of purchase. Requests for session changes and/or refunds must be received at least a week in advance of the course date. Memberships and donations are nonrefundable.​

Already registered and looking for your online access link? Email us at gpro@urbangreencouncil.org.

Urban Green uses Organizational Values to guide our work. As part of our commitment to fostering inclusive and respectful dialogue, we ask that all participants are mindful of these values during our course discussion.

ABOUT GPRO: 

GPRO is a comprehensive national training and certificate program developed by Urban Green Council. The program teaches the principles of sustainability and trade-specific green construction knowledge to people who build, renovate and maintain buildings.

GPRO courses range from our foundational course, Fundamentals of Building Green, to technical trade-specific classes focused on filling the green-gap between energy efficiency and conventional building and construction knowledge. Working with unions, USGBC chapters, non-profits, workforce development groups and real estate companies throughout North America, we have trained over 16,000 building professionals to date.  

SUBSIDIZED TRAINING: 

NYSERDA fully subsidizes the cost of this training for anyone in one of the below groups who lives or works in New York State. Please reach out to gpro@urbangreencouncil.org for details on how to register.

• Veterans;
• Native Americans;
• Individuals with disabilities;
• Low-income individuals, whose household’s total income is below or at 60% of the State Medium Income, or whose household has been determined eligible for or is receiving assistance through the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or other human service benefit programs;
• Incumbent or unemployed power plant workers;
• Previously incarcerated individuals;
• 16- to 24-year-olds who are enrolled in or have completed a comprehensive work preparedness training program such as those offered by Boards of Cooperative Education Services (BOCES), technical high schools, Conservation Corps, Youthbuild, and AmeriCorps. The training program must include a combination of rigorous clean energy education with hands-on technical training. Eligibility of work preparedness programs under this category will be considered on a case-by-case basis.;
• Homeless individuals;
• Single parents.

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