ARPL 674 Facility Performance Assessment & Management
Looks at approaches to and techniques for verifying that facilities are functioning per their design intent and to minimize their impact on the environment and efficient use of energy, water, and other resources over the life of the facility. Students will learn the basics and value of assessment tools such as commissioning, occupant satisfaction surveys, and performance management approaches such as Balanced Scorecards (BSC), and will learn the basics of monitoring, analyzing, benchmarking, and adjusting facilities and their physical components to work optimally, follow traditional building certification program concepts (such as management of energy, water, materials, environmental quality and building sites), and to respond to the evolving programmatic and contextual needs of the facility.