Laney College's Building Technician Curriculum: Preparing High-Performance Building Operators
Chuck Frost, Laney College
Laney College, located in Oakland, California, offers certificates and degrees in commercial HVAC and building automation systems for building operators. Funded by a National Science Foundation Grant, Laney has developed an industry-vetted curriculum that focuses specifically on knowledge and skills for the high performance building operator, including courses in data analysis, load calculations, commissioning, energy-efficient control sequences, and control systems networking. We will provide a brief overview of our curriculum and laboratory strategies to teach high-performance building skill sets traditionally underrepresented in building operator curricula.
Biography:
Chuck Frost is a Senior Facility Engineer at the University of California, Berkeley. He also teaches classes on HVAC system and control for the Environmental Control Technology Department at Laney College in Oakland, California, and classes on the Building Operator Certification program for the Pacific Northwest Energy Efficiency Council. Before coming to the University of California, Berkeley, he oversaw the building automation systems at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.