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Course Description

This comprehensive 5-day course provides facilities and maintenance professionals with the essential skills and knowledge to manage, maintain, and improve building infrastructure and assets effectively. Participants will learn how to develop maintenance programs, ensure regulatory compliance, optimize energy use, manage contractors, and apply best practices for preventive and predictive maintenance of critical building systems such as HVAC, electrical, plumbing, elevators, and structural components.

By combining technical guidance with management strategies, the course ensures that facilities are safe, efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective, while supporting business operations without interruption.

Course Objectives

Upon the successful completion of this course, each participant will be able to:

  • Plan and manage comprehensive maintenance programs for building systems and facilities infrastructure.
  • Implement preventive and predictive maintenance strategies to reduce downtime and repair costs.
  • Develop inspection programs and condition assessment procedures.
  • Manage service contracts, vendors, and compliance with building codes and regulations.
  • Apply energy management and sustainability principles in facilities maintenance.
  • Use computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) to track work orders and asset performance.

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed for Facility and Building Managers, Maintenance Managers and Supervisors, Maintenance Technicians and Engineers, Operations Managers, Asset Managers responsible for buildings, Property Managers and Owners & Engineers involved in facility design and operations

Course Agenda

Day 1

Registration, Welcome & Introduction

Pre-Test

Fundamentals of Building and Facilities Maintenance

  • Overview of facility management and maintenance functions
  • Types of maintenance: corrective, preventive, predictive, condition-based
  • Roles and responsibilities of maintenance teams
  • Facility maintenance planning cycle
  • Key building systems overview: HVAC, electrical, plumbing, structural, fire safety

Day 2

Preventive and Predictive Maintenance Programs

  • Preventive maintenance program design
  • Predictive maintenance technologies: sensors, thermal imaging, vibration monitoring
  • Creating maintenance checklists and schedules
  • Failure modes and maintenance task selection
  • Integrating inspections into maintenance planning

Day 3

Managing Building Systems and Infrastructure

  • HVAC system maintenance best practices
  • Electrical systems inspections and troubleshooting
  • Plumbing and drainage system upkeep
  • Elevators, escalators, and vertical transportation systems
  • Fire protection and life safety system maintenance

Day 4

Facilities Management Operations and Compliance

  • Contractor and vendor management
  • Facility condition assessments (FCA) and building audits
  • Compliance with local codes, OSHA, ADA, fire codes
  • Work order management and CMMS best practices
  • Energy efficiency and green building maintenance

Day 5

Budgeting, Planning, and Continuous Improvement

  • Maintenance budgeting and cost control
  • Asset lifecycle management and capital planning
  • Sustainability and environmental considerations
  • Emergency preparedness and facility resilience planning
  • Continuous improvement models (e.g., Plan-Do-Check-Act for facilities)

Post-Test

End of the Course

Assessment Methodology

All courses conducted by EdTech will begin with a Pre-evaluation and end with a Post-evaluation. The instructor will evaluate the knowledge and skills of the participants according to the feedback given by participants. This will help to recognize the benefits and the level of knowledge gained by participants through the course.

Training Methodology

Facilitated by a highly qualified specialist, who has extensive knowledge and experience; this program will be conducted using extensively interactive methods, encouraging participants to share their own experiences and apply the program material to real-life work situations in order to stimulate group discussions and improve the efficiency of the subject coverage.

Percentages of the total course hour classification are:

  • ​40% Theoretical lectures, Concepts and approach
  • 20% Motivation to develop individual skill and Techniques
  • 20% Case Studies and Practical Exercises
  • 20% Topic General Discussions and interaction

Course Manual

Participants will be provided with comprehensive presentation material as reference manual. This presentation material is a compilation of core valuable information, references, presentation methods and inspiring reading which will be used as a part of the material guide.

Course Certificate

At the completion of the course, all participants who successfully accomplished the required contact hours will receive an EdTech Training Participation Certificate as a testimony to their commitment to professional development and further education.

Why Edtech ?

  • Industry Experienced; Internationally Qualified Trainers
  • Hands-on Practical Sessions & Assignments
  • Intensive Study materials
  • Flexible Schedules
  • Realistic training methodology
  • High-Quality Training in Affordable Course Fees
  • Achievement Certificate, as approved by the Ministry of Education (Abu Dhabi Center for Technical and Vocational Education Training - ACTVET), HABC, AWS, IAOSHE, SHRM, etc.