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BMS Professional Development Membership
Self-paced online training courses | done-for-you Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio design templates | workshops | coaching | Q&A sessions | community.
BMS Professional Development Membership
The BMS professional development membership expands on the product training provided by BMS companies to develop engineers into professionals who justify repeat work, higher fees, and higher profits.
New content is published monthly.
Self-paced online training courses.
Done-for-you Microsoft Word, Excel, and Visio design templates.
Workshops.
Q&A Sessions.
Coaching and mentoring.
BMS Community forum.
All live sessions will be recorded for remote learners.
If there are enough numbers to justify it, live sessions can be run in different time zones.
Lock in the $35 per month foundation member price now. When membership fees increase in the future, you will stay on the fee you started with.
AU$ 35 per month is approximately US$ 23, GBP 18, EUR 22.
Cancel anytime.
AU$ 35 per month
Why should you invest in yourself?
Initially, the membership will cost AU$ 35 per month (AU$ 420 per year). If you invested in your professional development for 10 years, it would cost you AU$ 4,200.
AU$ 4,200 is not a lot of money over 10 years when considering how much more money you could earn, or that promotion you could secure, or that dream job you could negociate.
I asked Chat GPT how much money I would make if I invested $35 per month for 10 years, with an interest rate of 8%. Answer: If you invest $35 per month for 10 years at an 8% annual interest rate (compounded monthly), the future value of your investment would be approximately $6,403 ($4,200 + $2,203).
Investing in yourself, in your career, is a no-brainer!
If you invest $35 per month for 10 years in the markets, your profit would only be $2,203. If you invested the same amount in your career, your first years salary increase could be higher than what the markets would return over 10 years. And massivly higher over 10 years. $30k? $50k? $80k? My salary has gone up AU$ 100k in the past 10 years.
I am going to compress my +25-year learning curve down to 5-10 years for you. This will help you significantly shorten your salary growth timeline.
“What you do, who you do it with, how you do it, is more important than how hard you work. Let me teach you how to play the game.”
COURSE LEADER
Bryce Anderson
For the first 15 years of my career (1998-2013), I worked for BMS companies (2 years in South Africa, 9 years in London, and 4 years in Australia). For the next +10 years (from 2014 onwards), I have worked as a BMS specialist consultant. I originally studied instrumentation and process controls.
In my consulting business (80% of my working week), I am designing (writing specifications), reviewing BMS contractor technical submissions, witnessing and signing off BMS projects from all major BMS systems and a wide range of different BMS companies, from global tier-1 manufacturers to smaller system integrators.
This puts me in a unique situation where I have visibility into what everyone is doing. The experience I share in the membership is made up from my own personal 15 years designing BMS systems, writing software code, commissioning, service and project management (across 3 different regions), plus the best parts of what the industry is providing.
This exposure to the wider industry allows me to provide customised training courses that not only teach the technical side of the BMS, but also address current real-life issues and constraints in the Building Management System industry.
I am not just teaching you what I learnt, but the best of what everyone else is doing.
Current courses
January 2025:
Points list design course (plus spreadsheet template).
Chiller water system control strategy course (plus control strategy template).
Project management for engineers course (50 lessons, existing paid course).
February 2025:
Control panel design course (plus Visio template).
Chiller Management System advanced reporting.
BMS for mechanical consultants course added to the membership.
March 2025:
Network architecture design course (plus Visio templates).
Chiller Management System advanced alarms, warnings and insights.
BMS Maintenance (new course). The first chapter was added to get the course started.
An Introduction to BMS (new course). The first chapter (overview) was added to get the course started.
April 2025:
Chiller Management System advanced trending.
BMS Network troubleshooting.
BMS Commissioning (first chapter).
Demand Control Ventilation. All previous YouTube videos linked to the membership, plus documentation I have collected over the years.
An Introduction to BMS (new course). The second chapter (sensors) was added.
May 2025:
Chiller Management System advanced graphics.
How to leverage the new skills you have learnt.
By the end of May, you will be able to design a best-in-class chiller management system. Points list, control panel, control strategies, advanced graphics, alarms, trends, and reports. This will immediately differentiate you from your colleagues and start to position you as a specialist. That is just the first 6 months. Imagine what you can do after 2 years.
The project management course will teach how to achieve the sold target margin every time. This is the process that I refined over 33 projects. I hit the target margin on every project, plus I generated about $90k in additional profit over and above the target margins. This course, on its own, is worth a year's investment in the membership.
Why did I create the membership?
I have tried many different ways to help the BMS industry.
Live in-person technical training at BMS companies offices, for their staff only.
Live in-person open sessions, where I hired a room with a mixture of people from different companies.
Live virtual training courses (Zoom, MS Teams).
Pre-recorded self-paced online courses.
One-to-one live weekly coaching.
Done-for-you digital products.
Each of these methods had different advantages and disadvantages. But there were still three main issues:
They weren’t cheap enough for an individual to pay for themselves with their own personal money. The cost was fine for a company but not for an individual. The last batch of courses I ran cost AU$ 2,500 each (in time, all that content will find its way into the membership for free). Companies would pay, but an individual was not going to pay from their own savings. So, I needed a solution that was cheap enough for an individual to pay, rather than relying on companies to train their staff.
My personal opinion (not a fact) is that a high percentage of people fall back to business as usual 6 months after a training course. It’s human nature. So, I wanted a solution that had continual reinforcement. I wanted a long-term product. I wanted people’s attention for more than just a few weeks. The membership is never-ending.
No matter how much time I put into a training course, it was not possible or practical to cover everything about that topic. There needs to be compounding growth on each topic, year-on-year. E.g., energy efficiency and control strategy optimisation is extremely complicated, it can not be taught in a start and finish course. We have to build on this every year. Layer more and more on every year, going deeper and deeper every year. The membership creates a never-ending learning experience.
The membership solves the three roadblocks of traditional training. It is cheap enough for an individual to pay for themselves. It provides a long-term learning path. There is time to layer on complex topics as engineers/managers move through their career.
What do you get out of this?
The membership does not upsell into more expensive courses. Everything is included. For one low monthly fee, you get everything I produce.
E.g., the project management for engineers course has been moved over into the membership. The BMS for mechanical consultants course has been moved into the membership. The currently free advanced optimisation courses are being duplicated and expanded on in the membership. Existing digital products are being integrated into lessons in the membership. I.e., within a year, there will be no separate courses or digital products relevant to BMS engineers and managers. Everything becomes the membership. A one-stop shop for everything you need.
The membership will evolve over time as I will build and support the members in whatever they need. But initially, it will start with 3 core learning streams: Design, optimisation (energy efficiency), and strategy. Strategy is the non-technical stuff that no one is teaching. How to take technical topics (learnings) and leverage that new knowlege to make lots of money for your company. When you make your company money, then you get rewarded.
The membership will improve your personal brand. You will become an expert in your company. You will be overtaking people with more experience than you (unless they are also in the membership, lol).
The membership module within the learning management system that I pay for has a community forum. I don’t know exactly how it works as I haven’t used it before. But, there is a community aspect as part of the membership. It is possible that this will grow into something of high value, where people can ask each other questions and share solutions and designs, etc. But we will see how that plays out.
What the membership is not
There are no software programming courses. You need to take controller programming courses provided by the manufacturer of the products your company uses. There are many different BMS systems in the world, and more are entering the market every year. It is impractical for me to try to teach you how to code an AHU in 20 different languages and keep up with updates, new revisions, firmware, and features. (I was only trained on about 4 products when I was on the tools).
I will teach you what information to put on graphics and how to design alarms, trends, and reports that actually provide value (what we currently provide is embarrassing), but I am not going to teach you how to convert the design that you learn from me into software code. Believe me, the coding part is the easy part.
The membership program is not associated with any BMS product or company.
BMS Companies generally teach their engineers how to use the engineering tools. How to write software code, build database, and create graphics, etc.
However, product training alone is no longer enough.
The industry is getting more complicated, and customers have higher expectations.
The membership expands on the basic product training provided by companies to develop engineers into professionals that justify repeat work, higher fees, and higher profits.
Foundation members: Sign up today and lock in this price forever
The fee will likely increase in the future when I need to employ more people to manage onboarding and moderate the community forum, etc. The fee you start on is the fee you stay on. Don’t wait 1 year to sign up.
As the membership evolves, it will likely spilt into different tiers (e.g., basic, standard and pro). The foundation members that sign up now will always stay on the highest paid tier for the same price they started on.
AU$ 35 per month - Australian dollar per month (cancel anytime)
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