Raise your team’s energy IQ. Cut consumption from the inside.
BSA turns building science into bite-sized, in-person or on-demand training. Raising your people’s energy IQ is one of the most cost-effective ways to attack high consumption — regular training reliably reduces site energy use by 5 to 10%.
Building science, in bite-sized sessions
BSA presents building science concepts in easy-to-digest, in-person or on-demand sessions. Enhance your team’s ability to operate your portfolio by taking their building science knowledge to the next level — and watch consumption follow.
Training tuned to every role on the site
Buildings only run well when the people operating them understand what’s really happening inside.
Turn any operator into a tech-savvy one
Buildings are full of thousands of devices that must work together. The more your operators understand what happens behind the walls and above the ceilings, the more effective they become.
Add hard science to the toolkit
Most certifications stop at policy and general operations. BSA adds the engineering fundamentals that sharpen goal-setting and project management.
Stop being at the mercy of the software
Tools make audits faster, but only real understanding of how sites use energy produces the best ones. As audits go mandatory, BSA gives new auditors the technical grounding the field needs.
Efficiency is everyone’s job
From the security guard to the custodian, a shared baseline of energy literacy makes the whole site run better. Start from the beginning with Building Energy Basics.
Why building-science literacy matters
The case isn’t abstract. Our field audit work consistently reveals the cost of its absence — and the value of its presence.
One walkthrough, three hidden failures
Across a nine-building institutional portfolio, the biggest recoverable savings came not from equipment or lighting, but from outdoor-air management. In a single building, one walkthrough found three air-handler anomalies: an economizer damper physically disconnected since at least 2007, an outdoor-air damper stuck closed despite being “scheduled” open, and a unit running at 100% outdoor air. Operators who understand these systems catch them; operators who don’t, pay for them for years.
Reading the meter, normalizing the number
On one campus, monthly use ranged 400-fold — a data-intensive office at 1.8 million kWh, a utility shed at 4,000. Knowing why means reading a meter, normalizing by area, and comparing year-over-year against heating and cooling degree days. Energy Use Intensity — kBtu per square foot per year — is the single most useful tool for non-engineers, and BSA’s Energy Benchmarking module is built around exactly that.
Build the team that runs your buildings
Contact SRG to shape a BSA track around your goals — start with Building Energy Basics, or target the skills your team needs most.