Building Maintenance (Spring, March, 2025)

Program Description

An Overview

Building Maintenance focuses on maintenance principles, practices and techniques for organizations of different size and complexity. 

This course will help new and experienced property and building managers, maintenance staff, and administrators communicate maintenance needs, understand maintenance terminology, and begin to develop a maintenance plan.

Participants will build on information learned in HousingU’s Building Systems course; however, prior completion of Building Systems is not mandatory and the courses can be taken in any order.

• Online, facilitated course
• Can be completed in up to 8 weeks (participants have up to 3 months to complete)
• This course is part of the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Program

Topics Include:

Introduction to Maintenance | The Maintenance Core Principles | The Consequences of Deferred Maintenance | The Four Types of Maintenance Strategies | Seasonal Maintenance Schedules | The Parts of a Maintenance Plan | Maintenance Management Skills | Final Project

What You’ll Learn

By the end of this course, successful participants will able to:

• Recognize the core principles that serve as the foundation of a good maintenance program
• Identify the different levels of deferred maintenance and their potential impact on your organization
• Describe the four types of maintenance strategies and recognize how these align with different types of assets
• Compile a seasonal maintenance schedule that includes the 8-W’s of why, what, where, when, how, which, who and how much.
• Assemble the different parts of a long-range maintenance plan that is suitable for the scale and complexity of your organization
• Appreciate the critical role of maintenance management in the organization’s journey towards sustainability

Time Commitment

This course includes approximately 32 hours of content. It is recommended that you commit to studying for 3-4 hours a week in order to be done in 8 weeks; however, you have up to 3 months to complete within the course start and end dates.

This course is self-directed, meaning you can progress at your own pace, log in to do assignments, and participate in forum discussions whenever it’s convenient for you. Having said that, we do encourage you to stick to the posted weekly schedule so that most participants will be working on the same topic at roughly the same time. A facilitator will monitor the discussion forums and score the final project.

Prerequisites

Some prior knowledge of Operations and Maintenance would be helpful. Completion of Asset Management Foundations is recommended, but not mandatory.

As an online course, participants must have basic computer skills and have access to a computer with MS Office 2010 or later and a modern, safe browser. We recommend Chrome, however any updated browser will work. Templates used in this course may require MS Excel, MS Word and pdf reader. This course is provided in English and requires reading and writing at a grade 8 level.

Registration Details

To register, click on the button above to login to our secure Registration site.

Please note that all HousingU courses are for single-user registration only, as our learning management system requires a unique email address for each participant. This means you can’t enroll another person on your behalf. Each participant must set up their own BCNPHA account, register individually, and use their own email to receive their unique login details and course access.

Participants are welcome to either pay upfront or select “Pay Later” upon registration checkout and then forward the receipt/invoice to the appropriate party for reimbursement, if applicable.

Registration Assistance

For step-by-step registration instructions (PDF) and/or our cancellation policy, check out the Program Info: HousingU Registration page.

Registrants will receive course access instructions from learn@bcnpha.ca prior to the course start date.

Need help?

• Having problems with your account? Email webfeedback@bcnpha.ca.
• Having problems completing your online registration? Email events@bcnpha.ca.
• Having problems accessing your online course? Email learn@bcnpha.ca.

More Information

For more information about course content, contact Kate Nielsen – Education Lead, learn@bcnpha.ca