Building Services Maintenance: Online Course with Internship Agreement
Building Services Maintenance teaches the work of a multi-skilled technician on a facilities contract. It covers planned preventive maintenance and CAFM records, safe isolation, low-voltage distribution, UPS and generators, heating and cooling plant, BMS and ventilation, legionella control, routine fire-system tests and warehouse doors and lifts. The course runs 100 % online for 180 days, includes an internship agreement and costs €200.
- 180 days of access
- 100 % online, at your own pace
- Level: beginner · Basic technical aptitude recommended
- Assessment: 10 quizzes (50 questions) and a final project
- Internship agreement included
- Certificate with a verifiable QR code
- Languages: Spanish, English, French
- Price: €200
Who it is for
- Electricians and other tradespeople moving into multi-skilled building maintenance
- Technicians starting work on a facilities management (FM) contract
- Maintenance staff who want to work across electrical, mechanical, water and fire services
- People preparing for an in-house technician role in offices or distribution centres
What do you need to start?
Prior knowledge
- No prior specialist knowledge of facilities management is assumed
- Comfort with basic arithmetic for readings, energy and CO₂-equivalent calculations
- Ability to read technical instructions and record readings accurately
Software and equipment
- A computer with an internet connection
- CAFM and BMS screens are explained in the course; no software licence is provided
- No other programs or accounts are required by the course materials
What you'll be able to do
- Work a PPM task: follow the task sheet, take readings, close the CAFM entry and hand over
- Carry out a safe isolation sequence with lock-off and verify the circuit is dead
- Trace power from the supply boundary to final circuits and explain why an RCD trips
- Read a UPS event log, generator panel and transfer switch to reconstruct a power event
- Identify a heat pump, boiler, VRF, split or FCU and do first-level maintenance on it
- Work out from the nameplate charge how often a refrigerant circuit must be leak-checked
- Use BMS alarms and trend logs to investigate comfort complaints before touching plant
- Diagnose a high-speed door that will not close in five ordered steps without bypassing safeties
Skills you will practise
- Planned preventive maintenance
- CAFM work orders
- Safe isolation and lock-off
- LV distribution and RCDs
- UPS, generators and ATS
- VRF, splits and FCUs
- F-gas leak-check intervals
- BMS trend logs
- Legionella control
- Fire alarm testing
Syllabus
- The multi-skilled technician: role, trades, on-call and customer care in an FM contract — What a multi-skilled technician does across services, how on-call and customer care work, and which tasks are reserved for certified specialists.
- Working a PPM job: task sheets, readings, CAFM entries and handover — How a planned preventive maintenance task is done and recorded, and why PPM completion rates matter under a service-level agreement.
- Safe isolation, lock-off and test instruments in buildings — Who may do which electrical work, the safe isolation sequence, lock-off and the correct use of test instruments.
- LV distribution in commercial buildings — The path from the substation boundary to final circuits: ownership, protection, RCDs, harmonics on the neutral and lighting circuits.
- Critical power: UPS, generators, ATS and battery rooms (Li-ion included) — How UPS, generators and automatic transfer switches respond to a power event, reading their logs and checking battery autonomy.
- Heating, cooling and heat pumps: boilers, VRF, splits, FCUs and refrigerant boundaries — First-level maintenance on heating and cooling plant, where the refrigerant circuit stops your work, and leak-check frequencies under F-gas rules.
- BMS, ventilation and energy monitoring — Reading the building management system first: AHUs, heat recovery, alarms, trend logs and sub-metering for energy monitoring.
- Water hygiene and plumbing: legionella control, TMVs, booster sets and temperature logs — Routine temperature checks, flushing little-used outlets, cleaning shower heads and maintaining mixing valves and booster pumps to control legionella.
- Fire safety systems: the routine tests the in-house technician performs — Weekly fire alarm tests, logbook records and routine checks on sprinklers and extinguishers within the scope of the in-house technician.
- Fabric, doors and the warehouse — Loading docks, high-speed doors, goods lifts, turnstiles, locks and battery charging rooms: sorting each finding into your job or someone else's.
Internship agreement
An intern with this course could support the maintenance team of an office building, distribution centre or facilities contractor: carrying out PPM rounds, recording readings and closing work orders in a CAFM system, logging water temperatures and taking part in routine fire alarm tests. Under supervision, they could also help with first-level maintenance on air-conditioning units, door and dock checks and BMS alarm follow-up.
The internship can run at the same time as the course, within the 180 days of access.
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Frequently asked questions
What job does this course prepare me for, and what does it not authorise me to do?
Building Services Maintenance prepares you for the role of a multi-skilled technician on a facilities contract, working to first-line level across electrical, mechanical, heating, cooling, water and fire services. It does not replace the certificate required under the EU F-gas Regulation (EU) 2024/573 to open, service or leak-check refrigerant circuits, nor registration as a Registered Gas Installer, which in Ireland is required for any work on gas installations.
I am a qualified electrician. Is my trade certificate enough to work on air conditioning and boilers?
No, and the course addresses this directly. A trade qualification does not let you top up refrigerant gas or open a refrigerant circuit, whatever the size of the charge: the 5-tonne CO₂-equivalent figure is a leak-check threshold, not a certification threshold. Gas boiler work goes to a registered gas installer. The course shows you what you can do on this plant, such as filters, coils, trays, condensate drains and readings, and where to stop.
What could I actually do in the internship, and who finds the host company?
You arrange the host company yourself; the school then issues the internship agreement and its annex, and the company signs electronically, usually within one working day. Typical tasks for a Building Services Maintenance intern include PPM rounds with CAFM entries, temperature logs for legionella control, assisting with fire alarm tests, first-level checks on splits and FCUs, and inspecting loading docks and high-speed doors under supervision.
Which standards, regulations and systems does the course cover?
The course works with the EU F-gas Regulation (EU) 2024/573, including leak-check intervals based on CO₂-equivalent charge and the restrictions on high-GWP refrigerants such as R-410A. It refers to the Registered Gas Installer scheme overseen by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities in Ireland, EN 12845 for sprinkler systems and EN 3 for fire extinguishers. It also covers CAFM systems, BMS trend logs, RCDs, UPS and ATS equipment.
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Content updated: 11/11/2026