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Corporate Training
Home Energy Rater Students
We offer corporate training discounts for companies that want to maximize savings while getting the best training in the marketplace for their employees. We offer this for these courses:
Train the Trainer
Our Train the Trainer course is called Training Adults Effectively. This two day course is suitable for anyone involved in teaching adults. In this course, attendees will learn from a veteran instructor and will get the opportunity to both give and receive feedback on a brief training presentation that the student delivers the second afternoon. The course covers the latest breakthroughs in understanding how adults learn combined with proven principles of training adults using integrated media, designing training programs, and delivering presentations.

The cost is $1,000.00 per person with a corporate discount for 6 or more attendees (maximum of 10).
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Green Rater
We are a RESNET-accredited Green Rater Training Provider and teach this two-day workshop that covers the fundamentals of green building. This course satisfies a pre-requisite for the US Green Building Council’s LEED for Homes Green Rater training, as well as other regional and local green building programs. Designed for Home Energy Raters (who will earn their certificate), it is available to other professionals as well.

This two day course costs $200.00 per person with a corporate discount for 10 or more attendees, up to a maximum of 30.
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Home Energy Rater (HERS)
We are a RESNET-accredited Home Energy Rating System (HERS) Rater Training Provider with one of the highest student pass rates in the nation - 80% of our students pass the National exam on their way to becoming a Home Energy Rater. Our instructor has years of practical field experience as a builder, home energy rater, and rater trainer and brings that perspective to the classroom and field training. Brett has also served on the RESNET Advanced Rater Task Force, the Training and Education Committee, and the RESNET Board of Directors.

This six day course costs $1,495.00 per person with a corporate discount for 9 attendees or more, up to a maximum of 18 people.
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Energy Code
We have been teaching code officials and builders the International Energy Conservation Code since 2003, not from an ivory tower perspective but from the perspective of a person who has to make it all work together in the field.

We teach:
  • 2003 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC)
  • 2006 IECC
  • 2009 IECC
This one day workshop costs $150.00 with a corporate discount for 15 attendees or more, up to a maximum of 30 people.
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Weatherization
Our weatherization course is based upon the Energy Audit standard Brett wrote that was the first recognized by the RESNET Board of Directors. This course covers the basics of a three tiered energy audit approach and is designed to produce knowledgeable and capable energy auditors who understand theory and practice. It covers the entire audit process from interview to combustion safety testing, from visual inspections through software analysis for cost-effective recommendations.

This two day course costs $325.00 per person with a corporate discount for 15 or more people, up to a maximum of 25.
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High Performance HVAC
This course is designed to help Home Energy Raters and HVAC technicians understand when traditional practices won’t work and will instead cause comfort nightmares!

Using building science and field-proven practices, we teach the students how to recognize a high performance home that will dictate using best practices for HVAC design and installation.

This one day course costs $125.00 per person with a corporate discount for 18 or more attendees, up to a maximum of 30.
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Customized Training Programs
We can also provide customized training programs to suit your company’s specific needs.
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