May 20, 2025  
College Catalog 2025-2026 
    
College Catalog 2025-2026

Commercial Building Engineering Certificate


Academic Plan: BCMCBC45

Certificate of Completion: 80 credits

Enrollment Point: Fall, Winter or Spring Quarter

​​The Commercial Building instruction areas include refrigeration and building systems, boiler operations, and controls. Students learn to regulate and maintain heating, cooling, and ventilation systems for commercial buildings. An emphasis is placed on practical experience and hands-on training whenever possible.  

Program Learning Outcomes:

  • ​​Apply mathematical principles to problems commonly faced by commercial building and industrial engineers. 

  • ​Communicate effectively in writing and verbally with co-workers, supervisors, and tenants. 

  • ​Exhibit the interpersonal and human relations skills necessary to fulfill the expectations of the employer. 

  • ​Gather and use information from a variety of architectural and mechanical prints, technical manuals, codes, and manufactures specifications. 

  • ​Maintain the integrity of building, fire and life safety systems. 

  • ​Operate, repair, maintain, and troubleshoot building, boiler, refrigeration and electrical control systems by properly using tools and technology.​ 

Program Requirements


This is the complete list of required classes.

GPA Requirements


  • Minimum cumulative GPA: 2.0
  • Minimum grade for each course: 1.0

*Note: Clinical & Field-Based Experience courses require a Credit (CR) grade.