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This training is rescheduled from its original date of August 27, 2024.
September 5, 2024, 2–3 p.m. ET
FEMP IACET: 0.2 CEUs
Level: Intermediate
This training provides best practices for designing and installing solar photovoltaic (PV) systems on low-sloped ("flat") roofs. Topics include roof safety issues, roof maintenance and repair, and structural considerations for areas with high wind and snow loads.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, attendees will be able to:
- Recognize what factors are important to consider when choosing a solar PV product to place on their roof.
- Identify life-safety issues that are unique to roof systems and how to prevent them from occurring.
- Recognize interactions between solar PV arrays and roofing systems such as:
- How to enable roof inspections, repair, and maintenance to occur unimpeded
- How to plan for eventual roof replacement
- How to maintain roof systems.
- Identify structural considerations for areas with high wind and snow loads.
- Identify how to get full 30-year life from a system.
Instructors
Gerald Robinson is an energy manager with over 25 years of experience initiating and completing a broad range of energy efficiency, water conservation, and renewable energy system initiatives.
Gerald has an extensive track record of innovative yet practical problem solving in both the private and public sectors. Gerald's management experience spans a wide variety of organizations including universities, municipalities, large corporations, non-governmental organizations, and federal agencies. He has gained an extensive knowledge of all phases of project development and implementation including, legal & regulatory, engineering, project finance, audits, system commissioning, specifications writing, construction management and commissioning.
Gerald is an ardent customer advocate able to work with a wide variety of stakeholders. He acts in the role of agency technical advocate drawing upon his background not only as an energy manager but also as a plant manager while at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) where he led the university through many multi-million-dollar utility infrastructure modernization and planning projects.
About FEMP Training
The Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) provides live and on-demand training to foster and maintain a high-performance workforce that constructs, operates, and maintains energy-efficient and cost-effective federal facilities. Choose from over 120 free courses spanning topics like project financing, facility and fleet optimization, fleet management, resilience, sustainable product procurement, and more.
FEMP is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and awards IACET continuing education units (CEUs) upon the successful completion of select courses. FEMP training is provided through the National Institute of Building Sciences' Whole Building Design Guide (WBDG) learning management system.