Long Courses, Short Courses, Mini Courses, Micro Courses and Tests
(1 Hour of Effort = 1 CEU)
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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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1000 in stock |
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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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1000 in stock |
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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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10000 in stock |
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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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10000 in stock |
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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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(7.0 CEUs) Air leakage is among the very most wasteful energy problems found in buildings. This short course defines the air barrier, discusses how to find air leaks, and describes how to seal ducts and the holes they create through the building envelope.
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$175.00
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(1.5 CEU) Older mobile homes lack overhangs to shade windows and newer homes may have an overhang that provides little shade. The roof colors of mobile homes are often a dull grey or a dark color of shingles. These characteristics lead to excessive summer solar gain. This course discusses shading structures, solar screens, window films, blinds, and cool roofs.
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$35.00
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(1.5 CEU) Insulators blow fiberglass insulation into the floor cavities, using a variety of methods. In this course, you’ll learn how to insulate floors by drilling through the rim joist. and through openings underneath the floor.
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$35.00
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(1.5 CEU) Many weatherization agencies and private contractors insulate mobile home walls successfully. This course demonstrates two ways to insulate mobile home walls: stuffing batts into the walls using a batt stuffer, and blowing fiberglass wool into the walls, using a fill tube.
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$35.00
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(1.5 CEU) Find mobile-home air leaks in predictable locations. Blower door testing helps workers to evaluate the existing air leakage and to plan the air-sealing work. Air sealing mobile homes is no more difficult than air sealing site-built homes and is often easier.
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$25.00
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