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Master building automation. Lead intelligent buildings.

The BAS Manager Academy turns field experience, engineering principles, and operational leadership into a complete professional learning system for BAS technicians, engineers, managers, and facility leaders.

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The BAS Manager Series

Build your complete BAS library.

Start with leadership and engineering foundations, then progress through controls, networks, operations, energy, critical facilities, AI, and field diagnostics.

Foundations
BOOK I - 178 Pages

Foundations

A practical, vendor-neutral foundation for leading modern building automation programs with stronger systems thinking, governance, reliability, ethics, documentation, and team capability.

Engineering Fundamentals for Building Automation
Book II · 232 pages

Engineering Fundamentals for Building Automation

Connects thermodynamics, airflow, hydronics, refrigeration, electrical systems, field devices, and building science to practical BAS decisions.

Building Automation Controls Engineering
Book III · 218 pages

Building Automation Controls Engineering

A controls-engineering desk reference covering feedback, PID, sequences, air systems, central plants, alarms, trends, software architecture, and commissioning.

Building Automation Networks, OT/IT Integration & Cybersecurity
Book IV · 234 pages

Building Automation Networks, OT/IT Integration & Cybersecurity

A controls-engineering desk reference covering feedback, PID, sequences, air systems, central plants, alarms, trends, software architecture, and commissioning.

BAS Manager Academy

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Turn the books into applied training.

 

Courses are structured around the books and designed for individuals, company teams, onboarding, and technical leadership development.

01
Foundational · 8 modules

BAS Manager Foundations

Build the professional mindset, governance, risk, reliability, and leadership foundation required to manage a BAS program.

  • Systems thinking
  • Risk and reliability
  • Governance and documentation
  • First 90 days
02
Foundational · 10 modules

Engineering Fundamentals for BAS Professionals

Learn the physics behind intelligent buildings so you can challenge measurements, sequences, and assumptions with confidence.

  • Thermodynamics
  • Psychrometrics
  • Air and water systems
  • Sensors and actuators
03
Foundational · 12 modules

Controls Engineering Masterclass

Design, program, commission, and optimize stable, maintainable control sequences for airside and central-plant systems.

  • PID and process dynamics
  • AHU and VAV sequences
  • Plant control
  • Commissioning

About the author

Field experience transformed into professional systems.

David Vaknin is a building automation professional with decades of experience in controls engineering, HVAC systems, commissioning, troubleshooting, OT/IT integration, project delivery, and operational improvement.

“Great buildings are created by great people using sound engineering principles.”

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