Training Types:
- Long Course: More than 10 CEUs
- Short Course: 4 to 10 CEUs
- Mini Course: Less than 4 CEUs
- Micro Course: Less than 1 CEU
- Test (No Lesson): 1 to 3 CEUs
Courses, Tests, Certificates, and Badges
Score 80% or better on any course or test and receive a professional certificate or badge.
1 CEU = 1 Hours of Effort
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Indoor Air Pollutants (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEU) Learn about the most dangerous indoor air pollutants typically found in buildings. There are hundreds of different air pollutants, but we don’t have the time to study all of them. So here we focus on the air pollutants that cause poisoning, asthma, allergies, bronchitis, cancer, and other ailments in buildings. |
$35.00
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Infrared Scanning (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEU) This mini course will show you how to identify air leaks, missing insulation, and thermal bridging using IR scanner. An infrared “IR” scanner allows us to see heat transmission, thermal bridging and air leakage in buildings. We scan a building from the indoors or outdoors. |
$40.00
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Installing Liquid Foam (Micro Course)
(0.3 CEU; 15 minutes) A factory-trained expert shows you how to install one-part and two-part foam as insulation and air sealing on new or existing buildings. |
$10.00
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Insulation Introduction (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEUs) Insulation resists heat gain and heat loss in buildings. This Insulation Introduction lesson covers the types of insulation you'll encounter in buildings. |
$35.00
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Insulation Methods and Materials (Test)
(1.5 CEUs) Test content: fibrous insulation, foamboard insulation, spray foam insulation, installation methods, equipment, tools, and PPE. |
$75.00
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Insulation Performance Factors (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEUs) Insulation Performance Factors covers the most important issues when inspecting insulation and how to evaluate the performance of installed insulation. |
$35.00
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Insulation Materials and Equipment (Short Course)
(9.5 CEU) Understand the materials and equipment used in the insulation trade. Study insulation material characteristics and installation methods in this short course. |
$250.00
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Introduction to Weatherization (Mini Course)
(1.0 CEUs) The Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) is a federal program created in 1979. Since then, WAP has weatherized millions of homes. |
$25.00
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Lead Safety Overview (Mini Course)
(2.0 CEU) Renovators have a responsibility to prevent lead poisoning. By working lead-safe, you can control dust and prevent lead poisoning. For certification, you must know the EPA and HUD Rules. These rules set forth specific and performance-based requirements that you must mastered to achieve compliance on weatherization and renovation jobs. |
$60.00
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Lighting Introduction (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEU) Artificial lighting consumes a lot of electricity in buildings. This course covers the types of light sources and light fixtures; features and components of lighting devices; the characteristics of energy-efficient lighting. |
$25.00
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Low-Cost Cooling Strategy (Micro Course)
(0.5 CEU; 25 minutes) To pursue a low-cost cooling strategy, stop heat gain before it enters the home, and use ventilation and air movement whenever possible. This micro course gives you a summary of the options including: shade trees, window treatments, whole house fans, evaporative coolers, and other options to minimize air conditioning costs. To pursue a low-cost cooling strategy, stop heat gain before it enters the home, and use ventilation and air movement whenever possible. This micro course covers including: shade trees, window treatments, whole house fans, evaporative coolers, and other options to minimize air conditioning costs. |
$10.00
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Low Energy Cooling (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEUs) Learn how to use low-energy cooling to minimize the amount of electricity that air conditioners consume. Strategies include cool roofs, window treatments, circulation fans, whole house fans, and evaporative coolers. |
$40.00
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Low-Energy Cooling (Short Course)
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 |
$250.00
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Low-Energy Cooling (Short Course) 8.5CEU
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 |
$250.00
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Math Operations (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEU) Refresh your memory about how addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division work together to solve energy math problems. |
$25.00
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Measuring Insulation Performance (Micro Course)
(0.2 CEU; 20 minutes) This 14-minute video explains how scientists measure the thermal resistance of insulation, using a guarded hotbox. |
$5.00
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Mobile-Home Air Sealing and Duct Sealing (Mini Course)
(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. |
$25.00
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Mobile-Home Construction (Mini Course)
(2.0 CEU) Workers assemble the home in the factory, starting from the steel trailer up through the roof. The construction sequence and methodology is quite different from the methodology of building a site-built home. |
$40.00
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Mobile-Home Floor Insulation (Mini Course)
(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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Mobile-Home Roof Insulation (Mini Course)
(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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Mobile-Home Shading (Mini Course)
(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. |
$35.00
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Mobile-Home Wall Insulation (Mini Course)
(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. |
$35.00
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Mobile-Home Weatherization (Short Course)
(9.0 CEUs) Mobile and manufactured homes are different in many ways from site-built homes. Insulation levels in the roof, walls, and floors are minimal. You will learn of variety of air-sealing, insulation, and repair methods in this 6-lesson course. |
$225.00
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Mobile-Home Weatherization (Test)
(1.5 CEUs) Test content: mobile-home construction, testing, diagnosis, air sealing, duct sealing, along with roof, wall, and floor insulation. |
$75.00
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Moisture Management (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEU) Moisture is most potent destructive force affecting buildings. Moisture affects human health and building durability. Learn how moisture moves through buildings in complex ways and how to control moisture. |
$2,535.00
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Moisture Management for Buildings (Short Course)
(8.0 CEUs) Moisture is most destructive force affecting buildings. Learn how to stop moisture from affecting human health and building durability. |
$200.00
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Moisture Theory (Mini Course)
(2.0 CEUs) Some airborne moisture prevents dryness in the mouth and sinuses. Too much airborne moisture causes building damage from condensation. |
$50.00
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Multipoint Blower Door Tests (Micro Course)
(0.6 CEU; 40 minutes) Multipoint blower door tests are useful for harvesting a variety of diagnostic data that single-point test can't provide. This micro course presents two videos and several reading assignments on multipoint blower door testing with and without software. |
$10.00
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Non-Invasive Superheat Testing (Micro Course)
(30 minutes) The noninvasive superheat test lets you estimate the superheat of an air conditioner or a heat pump operating in the summer. Noninvasive means that we don't have to connect of refrigeration manifold and performing this test doesn't require a refrigeration license. |
$10.00
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Pressure Pan Testing (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEU) The pressure pan measures duct pressures during a blower door test. If you measure pressure with a pressure pan at a duct register during a blower door test, that indicates that outdoor air is leaking into or out of the ducts. Pressure-pan testing isn’t a quantitative measurement of duct leakage, but it does help you find duct leaks and to evaluate the relative amount of duct leakage. |
$40.00
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Professional Insulation Equipment (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEU) This Professional Insulation Equipment lesson presents the vehicles, machines, tools, and protective equipment used for installing insulation. |
$35.00
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Professional Sprayed and Injected Foam (Micro Course)
(0.8 CEU; 50 minutes) Professional installers spray foam on surfaces and inject foam into cavities. Sprayed and injected foam are excellent choices for some applications. Learn from a few examples. Spray foam is by far the most common installation. And you can observe the coverage of spray foam. Injected foam is more of an unknown because installers inject it into closed cavities. Both types of liquid foam require a precise mixture and a narrow temperature range. Shrinkage, voids, and cracking can be a problem. Although sprayed and injected foam in this course is low-density polyurethane foam, except for the final video, which features high-pressure high-density polyurethane foam. |
$20.00
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Quality Control Inspector (Test)
(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. |
$75.00
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Reducing Baseload Cost (Mini Course)
(2.5 CEUs) This mini course discusses a wide variety of baseload energy uses: hot water, lighting, refrigeration, and laundry. Home electronics and entertainment have grown to be a major electricity user over the past 25 years. |
$60.00
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Reducing Baseload Energy (Short Course)
(6.5 CEUs) Baseload energy includes water heating, lighting, and and refrigeration. Baseload energy may be up to half of the total energy that a building uses, especially in mild climates. Learn about the behavior changes, retrofits, and equipment replacements that save baseload energy. |
$175.00
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Residential Refrigerators (Mini Course)
(1.0 CEU) Refrigerators and freezers use a lot of electricity. This course discusses when it makes economic sense to replace an old refrigerator. Older refrigerators can use four times more electricity than new energy-efficient models! |
$25.00
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Roof and Attic Ventilation (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEU) Most attics and roofs require ventilation to protect the roof from ice damming, moisture damage, and excessive summer heat. This course covers important ventilation strategies to keep roofs and attics dry and cool. You’ll learn about climate-specific ventilation issues and roof design features that eliminate problems. |
$35.00
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Simple Pressure Diagnostics (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEU) What we call “pressure diagnostics” is a group of tests and observations that help us diagnose and locate air leaks. We take measurements of pressure and airflow, during a blower door test, which help us determine which air barriers are leaky. |
$40.00
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Simple Zone-Pressure Diagnostics (Micro Course)
(0.7 CEU; 35 minutes) This 10 minute video explains how to use manometers during blower door tests to find clues about the performance of air barriers. We call the tests contained in this video: simple pressure diagnostics. |
$15.00
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Site Drainage for Buildings (Mini Course)
(1.0 CEU) Ground water is one of the main causes of moisture damage to buildings. Buildings that can’t direct ground water away from their foundations suffer moisture damage. This course covers landscapes and devices that keep ground water from wetting the foundation. |
$25.00
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