That's why our effective online training is self-paced, offers support, and is designed for hard-working BAS professionals like you. Smart Buildings Academy, formerly Building Automation Monthly, offers Smart Buildings training tracks for technicians, designers, programmers, integrators, sales teams, and project managers.
Many companies cover the cost of Smart Buildings training for their employees, but some just don't know it's available. We've made this free packet for you to present to your employer detailing the benefits of Smart Buildings Academy's training programs. In addition to the packet, we'll email you some tips on how to get the conversation going with management.
Remember: Your education helps improve your employer's success, so don't be shy about asking for training!
Many companies cover the cost of Smart Buildings training for their employees, but some just don't know it's available. We've made this free packet for you to present to your employer detailing the benefits of Smart Buildings Academy's training programs. In addition to the packet, we'll email you some tips on how to get the conversation going with management.
Remember: Your education helps improve your employer's success, so don't be shy about asking for training!
After one hour, people retain less than 1/2 of the information presented.
After one day, people forget more than 70% of what was taught in training.
After six days, people forget 75% of the information in their training.
SBA's courses are fully online, on-demand, and accelerated learning experiences. You can watch the lesson once or dozens of times, increasing your retention of and confidence in the material.
Each course goes through an extensive beta process with a minimum of 50 paid students prior to being rolled out. This ensures that every lesson delivers valuable insights that you can apply at work immediately.
Smart Buildings Academy also offers live office hours and a discussion board to ensure you fully understand the material. To learn more about how SBA works, schedule a training demo.
Here are some of the most common questions professionals ask prior to enrolling in our courses.
Here are just a few of the companies we have provided training to:
Albireo Energy, Alerton, Automated Logic, CBRE | ESI, Climatec, GSA, Hoffman Building Technologies, Johnson Controls, Long Building Technologies, Schneider Electric, Sunbelt Controls, Trane.
We have had 14,000+ students since November 2017 and have provided training to students on every continent in the world except Antarctica.
Smart Buildings Academy's programs are designed for all skill levels. Each module builds upon on another and assumes no prior knowledge unless explicitly states in the course description.
Phil Zito, CEO and course instructor of Smart Buildings Academy, has extensive real-world experience with both Building Automation Systems and Information Technology. He led the integration program for Johnson Controls prior to owning SBA - formerly Building Automation Monthly. He has designed systems, networks, and application architectures for hundreds of projects.
Phil has two Master's Degrees (Information Systems and Cyber Security) and several IT certifications (CCNA, CCDA, CISSP, MCSD Web Apps, TOGAF Certified)
You can personally experience his knowledge and teaching ability by scheduling a training demonstration, visiting our Resources archive, listening to the 200+ podcast episodes we have recorded, or exploring our YouTube channel, where we post regular educational videos.
The course platform supports comments, which students use extensively for their questions. Questions are answered within 24-hours (often faster) during normal working hours.
From the first day you enroll into our courses, our training admin will begin to track your progress. We have automated weekly e-mails that are sent to remind you of your assigned lessons.
As soon as you purchase our program, you will be assigned your assessment. Upon completion, you will have full access to all of the modules in your assigned course.
Each course was designed to be completed in 30 days. Each daily lesson will take about 15 minutes, on average. However, we unlock the entire course immediately so students can work at a faster pace if they'd like.
All of SBA's videos are available on our course website, which is supported by the online training platform Moodle. Upon purchasing the course, you will receive a series of e-mails that guide you through how to access the course.
Once you access the course, you will be able to watch the videos online and download the course audio files if you'd like to consume the content offline.
Each course is online and self-paced. As soon as you enroll, you will have one year's access to the course(s).
We have an optional exam that students can complete at the end of the course. If you complete the exam with a score of 90% or greater, you will receive a certificate of completion.
In addition to this, each course comes with a course workbook. we recommend you use this course workbook to evaluate your own mastery of the course material.
If you have a question we haven't answered here please send us an e-mail at support@smartbuildingsacademy.com or call us at 800-484-0113 with your question, we'd love to answer it.
I believe this course covers the basics in great detail and breaks things down into what you actually need to know. This saves a lot of time and allows you to cover more area. I also think it is very helpful that Phil is readily available for questions of any sort. All of my questions were answered within minutes.
I would highly recommend this course because of all the resources it provided me and how it taught me to use those resources. For example, all the templates that help with completing point lists, RFIs, BOMs, etc. I can now use these templates for future projects and I will be able to complete control submittals more efficiently. I also found very useful the tips for working with Visio, Excel, and Word.
I didn't realize a course like this existed, there is such a dearth of training materials in this industry and I have been so overwhelmed in starting this role. I think this course has given me a language aptitude for the industry I didn't have previously. I've highly recommended your course and structure to my colleagues and even some of my customers!