Every piece of equipment a facility runs consumes energy, generates waste and eventually needs replacing — and how that lifecycle is managed now decides whether an organisation meets its cost and environmental targets later. This training course from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy gives facility and maintenance managers a structured route to sustainable maintenance, one that treats environmental performance and asset reliability as the same goal rather than a trade-off.

Participants work through predictive and preventive maintenance techniques, digital monitoring and IoT tools, energy and waste reduction methods, and the policies and KPIs needed to keep improvement going after the course ends. Rather than treating sustainability as an add-on, the programme builds it into everyday maintenance decisions — from selecting equipment to tracking performance — so attendees leave with a plan they can apply directly to their own sites.

Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Build a practical strategy for embedding sustainability into everyday maintenance work.
• Apply predictive and preventive maintenance techniques, including RCM principles.
• Use IoT sensors, CMMS platforms and real-time data to guide maintenance decisions.
• Reduce energy consumption, waste and downtime across maintenance operations.
• Set KPIs and reporting frameworks that keep sustainable maintenance on track.
• Develop a sustainable maintenance plan tailored to their own facility.

Who Should Attend

• Maintenance and reliability managers and supervisors.
• Maintenance planners and team leaders from any maintenance craft.
• Operations, materials management and CMMS personnel.
• Anyone involved in work planning or asset lifecycle decisions.

Module 1: The Environmental and Economic Case for Sustainable Maintenance

• Environmental footprint of maintenance activities and how to measure it
• Traditional versus sustainable maintenance practices
• Linking maintenance decisions to organisational sustainability goals

Module 2: Predictive and Reliability-Centred Maintenance

• Preventive versus predictive maintenance approaches
• Reliability-Centred Maintenance (RCM) principles and implementation steps
• Case studies of predictive maintenance reducing waste and downtime

Module 3: Digital Tools and Condition Monitoring

• Role of IoT sensors and remote diagnostics
• Data analytics for scheduling and resource optimisation
• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and its integration with sustainability

Module 4: Energy and Resource Efficiency

• Selecting and retrofitting equipment for energy performance
• Best practices for sustainable equipment operation
• Reducing waste and material consumption in maintenance work

Module 5: People, Policy and Supplier Alignment

• Developing and rolling out a sustainable maintenance policy
• Workforce training, skills and stakeholder communication
• Selecting and evaluating sustainability-aligned suppliers

Module 6: Measuring Impact and Driving Continuous Improvement

• Defining and tracking KPIs for sustainable maintenance
• Reporting maintenance performance to stakeholders
• Sustainability certifications and conducting internal audits