Long Courses, Short Courses, Mini Courses, Micro Courses and Tests
(1 Hour of Effort = 1 CEU)
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(1.5 CEUs) Mobile homes have minimal amounts of roof insulation. There is usually room in the roof cavity to roughly double the insulation R-value. |
$35.00
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(1.0 CEUs) The Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) is a federal program created in 1979. Since then, WAP has weatherized millions of homes.
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$25.00
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(2.5 CEUs) Central air conditioners and heat pumps rely on the refrigeration cycle to provide heating and cooling. Explains simple language & diagrams. |
$65.00
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(7.0 CEUs) Learn to identify different types of heating-and-cooling systems. Energy specialists must know how to provide safety and efficiency for HVAC equipment and to understand the basics of equipment service and replacement.
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$175.00
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Tests knowledge of gas heating, air conditioners, heat pumps, the refrigeration cycle, combustion venting, and equipment identification.
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$75.00
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(2.0 CEUs) In many buildings, air leakage is one of the largest sources of heat loss and heat gain. This lesson illustrates common air-leak locations and sealing them. |
$50.00
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(1.5 CEU) Fans create a wind chill effect indoors, and cool buildings with outdoor night air, if the air outdoors is cooler than the air indoors. Learn fan strategies for saving electricity. |
$50.00
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(1.5 CEUs) This test combines energy arithmetic, quantitative reasoning skills, building characteristics, and knowledge of the way we evaluate buildings. The math isn’t difficult, but you need to understand the most important energy equations and be able to use a calculator.
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$50.00
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(9.0 CEUs) Before we spend money on improving the building's energy efficiency, we do an energy audit. Energy audits require quite a bit of math and other evaluation tools. You need a wide variety of information to evaluate a home and to write a work order. This short course is part of our energy auditor course.
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$200.00
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Low Energy Cooling 8.5 CEUs
Low-energy cooling minimizes energy-intensive refrigerated air-conditioning by reducing solar gain, air leakage, and relative humidity. Refrigerated air-conditioning is the most expensive way to create summer comfort. When we reduce heat gains, air leakage, and internal gains, we can use air circulation and nighttime cooling to reduce air-conditioning costs or to eliminate the need for air conditioning.
2.1 Cooling Principles—2.5 CEUs
Air conditioning costs are rising and brown-outs are now common. Study how human-comfort and climate influence electricity consumption for air conditioning. This mini course explains common energy-efficiency strategies that minimize cooling costs by reducing heat gains. You’ll learn the following.
How to stop heat before it enters buildings.
How people and buildings expel excess heat.
Cost-effective alternative methods for removing excess heat.
2.2 Low Energy Cooling—1.5 CEUs
Many or most homes in your region have air conditioning systems. This lesson explains how to use low energy cooling to minimize the amount of time that air conditioners operate. Strategies include cool roofs, window treatments, circulation fans, whole house fans, and evaporative coolers. These alternatives save money and electricity.
2.3 Stopping Heat Gain—2.0 CEUs
In climates with cooling needs, the most effective cooling strategy stops heat before it enters the building. This lesson describes how heat enters buildings and the best strategies to stop heat gain. You’ll learn to limit heat gain in buildings, including: solar heat, air leakage, internal heat gains, and heat transmission. This lesson also discusses design details that limit heat gain and how to improve new-building design to minimize heat gain.
2.4 Cooling with Ventilation—2.0 CEUs
(1.5 CEU) This mini course discusses how to cool a home with only fans. Fans can create a wind chill effect, and they can cool the home with night air, assuming that the air outdoors is cooler than the air indoors. Here are the main topics of this course.
Circulating fans
Portable cooling fans
Whole-house fans
Evaporative coolers
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$250.00
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Buy a $5000 course voucher and save 10%. You can send this voucher to someone else via email. Use your voucher during checkout.
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Original price was: $5,000.00.$4,500.00Current price is: $4,500.00.
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Buy a $2500 Online Training Voucher and Save 5%. You can send this voucher to someone else via email. Use the Course Voucher during checkout.
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Original price was: $2,500.00.$2,375.00Current price is: $2,375.00.
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(1.5 CEU) Learn what materials are and aren't air barriers. Discover how to locate the air barrier’s air leaks and explore techniques to correct common air-barrier problems.
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$40.00
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(1.5 CEUs) Building science includes the fundamentals of building physics, energy efficiency, building construction, and building energy retrofit. Everyone who works in the building trades should understand building science. Building science is one of the main topics of energy auditing and inspecting.
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$75.00
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(3.0 CEUs) This test draws from the same question pool as the final exam in our Energy Auditor Course. This test includes building science, building evaluation skills, heating and cooling, baseload energy, ventilation systems, and moisture management.
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$150.00
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(3.0 CEUs) This test focuses on the knowledge and experience of an energy auditor who’s been on the job more than five years. Many of the questions on this test require on-the-job experience to answer correctly. Tests you on the knowledge, training, and experience of an energy auditor.
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$75.00
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(2.0 CEUs) Test content: blower door preparation, set-up, choice of manometer settings, test results, typical problems, air-leakage standards, and knowledge of typical readings of different buildings.
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$75.00
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(1.5 CEUs) Test content: fibrous insulation, foamboard insulation, spray foam insulation, installation methods, equipment, tools, and PPE.
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$75.00
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(1.5 CEUs) Test content: mobile-home construction, testing, diagnosis, air sealing, duct sealing, along with roof, wall, and floor insulation.
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$75.00
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$500.00
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