Training Program?

The Californina Commissioning Collaborative has a template that can be used to document staff training. The training plan documentation template includes the training topic, who should receive the training, what the training consists of, when or how often the training should occur and who completed the training and date completed.

Benificial topics of the trainings may include:

SITE MANAGEMENT
PURCHASING
WASTE MANAGEMENT
GREAN CLEANING
REFRIGERANT MANAGEMENT
ENERGY AUDITING
COMMISSIONING
OCCUPANT HEALTH & PRODUCTIVITY
POTABLE WATER CONSUMPTION

Attendees of the trainings should include employees and contractors involved in major aspects of the the building operations and maintenance.

Hope this helps!

Hi David,
From reading your comment, it sounds like occupants and contractors involved in totally non-energy related positions must be trained as well...like people in Purchasing, for example, would have to receive training. Am I understanding this correctly? How far does this extend to contractors? If we purchase from an entity like Staples, are they required to have training, too?

Thanks!

Elizabeth

That's a good question.
Putting the staff training requirement in EAc2.2 is a little mis-leading since it pertains to all management staff who are involved with building operations. This includes onsite personnel (engineers/property managers), contractors (cooling tower chemical management, pest management, landscape management, janitorial, etc..) and suppliers of building goods. You wouldn't be expected to train the entire company of Staples,but it may be required that you train the sales rep you deal with on an ongoing basis.
Hope this helps!

David,
Two things:
1. Do you have an example education program that you have successfully submitted to LEED?
2. Do you know of any online training programs that provide the broad range of sustainability topics related to existing building operations that this credit seems to require? The BOMA BEEP program seems to focus only on energy efficiency and the ASHRAE eLearning classes are mostly geared to new construction.

Thanks so much for your help,
Jake

Yes I do have a training template we have success with when completing EAc2.2.
The LEED online template requires only a narrative however we always received review comments on the training. We started uploading the training template, and the review comments stopped.

the USGBC has a bunch of online training programs: http://new.usgbc.org/courses/webinar-subscriptions

Hope this helps!