This 8 hour workshop focuses on how to approach, implement, and optimize for sustainability into your building's ongoing operations and maintenance practices. Content of the course will include best practices and tips "from the trenches" for optimizing systems, processes, and procurement, changing potentially ineffective procedures, and integrating policies and plans into existing procedures in order to enhance the building environment, cut costs and increase resource efficiency.

The training will provide an overview of LEED® for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance (EB:OM), and will highlight opportunities for energy efficiency, water use reduction, waste management, healthy indoor environments, materials and purchasing, integrated pest management and green cleaning. Additionally, the training will cover various benchmarking, measurement and tracking tools to monitor and compare your building's performance and improvements. The training will also present case studies and includes interactive sessions to allow participants to work through and fully engage in the course material.