AC and Heat Pump Tune-Up Procedure (Micro Course)
(0.5 CEU; 25 minutes) The video explains the process of evaluating and servicing a typical residential HVAC system. The focus is on troubleshooting and logical progression of tasks. Handout outlines procedures. . |
$10.00
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A/C & Heat Pump Equipment ID (Mini Course)
(2.5 CEUs) Air conditioners and heat-pumps come in many designs and sizes. Slide show and handout explain how to identify A/C and heat pump equipment in buildings. |
$65.00
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Air Barrier Basics (Mini Course)
(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. |
$40.00
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Air Pressure and Flow (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEU) Air pressure and airflow in buildings affects indoor air quality and energy efficiency. Here we present physical principles of air pressure & airflow. |
$25.00
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Air Sealing Buildings (Short Course)
(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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Airflow and Static Pressure in HVAC Systems (Micro Course)
(0.9 CEU; 55 minutes) Airflow and static pressure directly relate to HVAC efficiency and to each other. Measuring static pressure is considerably easier than measuring airflow. This micro course gives you the fundamentals of how to measure static pressure and to make decisions based on your measurements. |
$20.00
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Analyzing Consumption (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEU) You can learn a lot about a building by studying its energy bills. Learn to separate baseload energy consumption from seasonal energy consumption. Monthly baseload consumption stays nearly constant throughout the year. Seasonal energy consumption varies with the seasons. |
$30.00
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ASHRAE 62.2 Ventilation Standard (Mini Course)
(2.5 CEU) Most energy programs and building codes accept ASHRAE 62.2 as their ventilation standard. Learn what ASHRAE 62.2 requires and how to comply with its requirements. |
$65.00
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Attic Insulation Methods (Short Course)
(4.0 CEU) Attics are the most important building assembly to insulate correctly. Attic insulation saves energy in both the heating and cooling seasons. |
$100.00
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Attic Insulation Preparation (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEUs) This mini course explains how to prepare an attic before insulating it to avoid poor performance and safety hazards. |
$40.00
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Avoiding Jobsite Health Hazards (Mini Course)
(2.0 CEU) This mini course outlines the most dangerous biological and chemical hazards that we find in buildings and on job sites. We discuss the personal protective equipment (PPE), administrative changes, administrative changes, engineering controls, and hazard elimination to protect workers from respiratory, hearing, vision, and other hazards. |
$55.00
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Basic Mechanical Ventilation (Mini Course)
(2.0 CEU) Most modern, airtight buildings use mechanical ventilation to exhaust polluted air and replace it with fresh air. This mini course explains how ventilation improves human health, building durability, and energy efficiency. |
$50.00
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Blower Door Test Preparation (Mini Course)
(1.0 CEU) Energy specialists must prepare the building envelope correctly to conduct accurate blower-door tests. This mini course outlines how to prepare the building to energy-industry measurement standards before testing. |
$25.00
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Blower Door Testing (Mini Course)
(3.0 CEU) In this mini course we describe the exact process of conducting a blower door test. Energy auditors and inspectors can set up blower door equipment in a variety of correct or incorrect ways. This lesson explains how to set up the blower-door-test equipment the right way. You’ll learn the following. |
$125.00
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Blower Door Testing (Short Course)
(8.5 CEU) Blower door testing is an important skill for reducing air leakage in buildings. Blower doors provide an initial air-leakage measurement of a building so you can budget the appropriate time and money for air sealing. During and after air sealing, workers can measure their air-sealing success. |
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Blower Door Testing Manometers (Mini Course)
(2.5 CEU) Building-energy specialists use manometers to measure building air-pressures and blower-door airflow. Your measurement’s accuracy depends how you set up and use the manometer. This lesson covers the most common manometer models and how they measure air leakage during the blower door test. |
$50.00
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Blower Door Testing (Test)
(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. |
$75.00
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Blower Door Theory (Mini Course)
(2.0 CEUs) Blower door tests are essential to building-energy audits. This mini course explains the science behind blower door tests and how we use test results to evaluate building airtightness. |
$40.00
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Building Evaluation Skills (Short Course)
(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. |
$200.00
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Building Evaluation Skills (Test)
(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. |
$50.00
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Building Expertise in Your Students (Micro Course)
(0.5 CEU, 30 minutes) This course presents a book summary of Building Expertise, Training For Performance Improvement. This book is an important and valuable guide for trainers, based on research by the University of California on training methods that work and don't work. We summarize the book in an 18 minute video and a two page handout. |
$10.00
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Building Science Basics (Short Course)
(8.0 CEU) This building science short course helps you develop a deep understanding of how buildings work. Building science also prevents you from believing energy myths that you’ll hear often from customers, sales reps, and coworkers. |
$200.00
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Building Science (Test)
(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. |
$75.00
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Building Shell Field Guide
by John KriggerThe Saturn Building Shell Field Guide describes the best practices for improving the efficiency and durability of the building shell in existing homes. It includes step-by-step procedures for air-sealing and insulating attics, walls, basements, and crawl spaces. It also includes detailed instructions for performing advanced blower-door diagnostics. |
$35.00
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Buildings and Their HVAC Systems (Micro Course)
(0.6 CEUs; 40 minutes) This micro course provides an outline of the components and terminology of heating, cooling, and ventilation equipment. |
$10.00
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Changing States Of Matter: Sensible and Latent Heat (Micro Course)
(0.5 CEUs; 30 minutes) When matter changes states from a gas to a liquid to a solid it's embodied heat decreases. If it goes from solid to liquid to gas it's embodied energy increases. This is a very important building science concept. These two videos give you a comprehensible introduction. |
$10.00
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Combustion Safety (Mini Course)
(1.0 CEU) Improperly installed or unmaintained combustion appliances are serious health and safety hazards. This mini course explains the principles of combustion safety. Learn why combustion appliances are potential hazards and how to inspect them for combustion-safety problems. |
$30.00
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Combustion Safety Testing (Mini Course)
(2.5 CEU) Building-energy audits usually include combustion safety testing. Learn the principles and procedures of combustion-safety testing and how you can use the test results to decide how to service gas appliances. |
$65.00
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Combustion Testing and Combustion Venting (Short Course)
(6.0 CEUs) Many combustion heating systems in existing buildings have problems with fuel-burning and the venting of combustion byproducts. This short course explains the basics of combustion safety testing and combustion venting systems. |
$175.00
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Combustion Ventilation Air (Bi-Lingual)
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Combustion Venting Systems (Mini Course)
(2.5 CEU) Well-designed combustion venting is essential for occupant health, safety, and building durability. This mini course covers how combustion venting systems work and how they can fail. |
$100.00
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Construction Basics (Mini Course)
(2.5 CEU) This mini course graphically explains the process of building a single-family wood-frame home from the foundation all the way up to the roof. |
$60.00
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Cool Buildings for Hot Weather (1-to-5 books) (On sale until August 30, 2024)
This easy-to-read book uses abundant color illustrations to explain the science of cool buildings. You’ll learn how to optimize comfort and energy efficiency during hot weather from this new book. Fight back at record high temperatures and oppressive humidity by implementing the most cost-effective and practical ways to make your home or building an oasis during the sweltering heat. |
$89.00
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Cool Buildings for Hot Weather (Box of 12; 40% discount)
This easy-to-read book uses abundant color illustrations to explain the science of cool buildings. You’ll learn how to optimize comfort and energy efficiency during hot weather from this new book. Fight back at record high temperatures and oppressive humidity by implementing the most cost-effective and practical ways to make your home or building an oasis during the sweltering heat. 310 pages with more than 400 illustrations. |
Original price was: $1,068.00.$640.00Current price is: $640.00.
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Cool Buildings for Hot Weather (Box of 6; 30% discount)
This easy-to-read book uses abundant color illustrations to explain the science of cool buildings. You’ll learn how to optimize comfort and energy efficiency during hot weather. Fight back record high temperatures and oppressive humidity by learning all the most cost-effective and practical ways to make your home or building an oasis during the sweltering heat. |
Original price was: $534.00.$374.00Current price is: $374.00.
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Cooling Principles (Mini Course)
(2.5 CEU) Air conditioning is expensive and should be a major topic of energy retrofit to reduce AC costs. The course covers the basics of shading, reflectivity, shade trees, cool roofs, and cooling with fans, |
$65.00
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Cooling with Ventilation (Mini Course)
(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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Crawl Space Issues (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEU) Crawl spaces cause many energy and moisture problems. This mini course explains how crawl spaces cause problems, and how to solve crawlspace problems. |
$40.00
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Dense-Pack Wall Insulation (Micro Course)
(0.7 CEU; 45 minutes) Dense-pack wall insulation is one of the most effective energy-saving retrofits available to insulators and their clients. This micro course shows you the main tools and methods with three videos and an illustrated handout. |
$20.00
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Densepack Wall Insulation Retrofit (Mini Course)
(2.0 CEU) Dense-pack wall insulation ensures that insulation fibers completely fill each wall cavity, to optimize R-value and prevent air circulation. Dense-pack wall insulation can dramatically improve comfort and save energy. |
$60.00
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Door Repair, Adjustment, and Weatherstrip (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEU) Repairing doors requires quite a bit of good judgement along with carpentry skills. You’ll learn about the most common problems with doors and how to fix them. We discuss the types of door weatherstrip and how to weatherstrip doors. |
$35.00
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Door Selection and Installation (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEU) Doors are a small but important part of a building envelope. Study how to select and install energy-efficient doors. Learn about door R-values and other features.. |
$35.00
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Duct Air Sealing (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEU) This mini course discusses duct-leakage standards and duct-leakage measurement. You'll discover where to find the duct leaks and learn about the methods and materials that duct sealers used to seal ducts. |
$40.00
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Duct Airtightness Testing (Short Course)
(5.0 CEU) This short course discusses two ways of evaluating or measuring duct leakage: pressure-pan testing and duct-blower testing. Pressure-pan testing helps to evaluate duct leakage and locate duct leaks. Duct-blower tests quantify air leakage to help energy auditors estimate how much time and effort to spend sealing the ducts. |
$125.00
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Duct-Blower Testing (Mini Course)
(2.0 CEU) This mini course discusses industry standards for duct-airtightness and how to interpret duct-blower test results. You’ll learn how to conduct the total duct-leakage test and the leakage-to-outdoors test. |
$50.00
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Duct Blower Theory (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEUs) Excessive duct leakage causes major energy and comfort problems in many buildings. This mini coursecovers why and how building-energy specialists test duct-system leakage. |
$50.00
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Duct Energy Efficiency (Mini Course)
(1.0 CEU) Inadequate duct airflow, duct air leakage, duct-induced building pressures, and lack of insulation waste energy. Discover how to fix duct problems in the right order to make ducts more energy efficient. |
$35.00
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Duct Energy Efficiency (Short Course)
(5.0 CEUs) The main aspects of duct energy efficiency are these: duct air sealing, duct insulation, and airflow through ducts. The purpose of this short course is to help you think about ducts holistically and to understand how ducts relate to heating and cooling efficiency. |
$150.00
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Duct-Induced House Pressures (Micro Course)
(0.7 CEU; 45 minutes) Building pressures cause air infiltration and exfiltration. Unbalanced airflow between supply and return ducts causes positive pressures in some rooms and negative pressures in others. Duct air leakage in intermediate zones makes the building either positively or negatively pressurized. This micro course explains these effects and how to solve the problems they create. |
$10.00
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Duct Insulation (Mini Course)
(1.0 CEU) Ducts located outside the conditioned space need duct insulation. This mini course covers how much insulation ducts need and how to install duct insulation. |
$35.00
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Electric Circuits Introduction (Micro Course)
(0.5 CEU; 30 minutes) This micro course contains a variety of information on the most common electric circuits found in buildings. We present electric circuits in two videos. The questions in the exam are based on the two videos. We also include two optional readings for some auxiliary information about electricity use in buildings. |
$10.00
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Electric Power and Energy (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEU) Learn about electricity, how it creates heat, how it powers and controls devices, and how we generate it. Slides, videos, and handouts. |
$40.00
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Electricity, Energy, and Power (Micro Course)
(0.5 CEUs; 25 minutes) Even though we depend on electricity for so many essential functions of our civilization, our understanding of electricity tends to be incomplete. This course is a good place to improve your understanding of electricity and how it relates to power and energy. The focus of this course is on units of measurement and how they relate to the way we use electricity and combustion in our modern world. |
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Electricity Peak Load and Air Conditioning (Micro Course)
(0.5 CEU; 25 minutes) Electricity peak load is one of the world's most challenging energy problems. In the summer heat, the energy users of a particular utility company all need electricity at the same time. This peak load drives up the cost of electricity to consumers, our economy, and the environment. This course explains the problem of peak electrical load and how air conditioning contributes to that problem. |
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Energy Auditing (Mini Course)
(1.0 CEU) This lesson provides an outline of the energy audit, necessary inspections, diagnostic tests, customer relations, and the work order that the audit produces. |
$25.00
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Energy Auditor (Block of Seven Courses)
Fast admission to the Energy Auditor course for seven people. |
$4,725.00
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Energy Auditor (Long Course)
(65 CEUs) The job requirements for energy auditors and quality control inspectors overlap. This long course prepares you to be an energy auditor, building analyst, energy rater, or quality-control inspector (QCI). |
$675.00
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Energy Auditor Field Guide
by John KriggerThe Energy Auditor Field Guide describes the best practices used in assessing the performance of existing homes. It includes step-by-step procedures that identify the most effective energy-saving measures for a home depending on its type and climate. This guide includes instructions for performing advanced blower-door diagnostics. This guide has undergone many rounds of technical review from experts around North America. |
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Energy Auditor Field Guide (Box of 20: $21 each)
by John KriggerThe Energy Auditor Field Guide describes the best practices used in assessing the performance of existing homes. It includes step-by-step procedures that identify the most effective energy-saving measures for a home depending on its type and climate. This guide includes instructions for performing advanced blower-door diagnostics. This guide has undergone many rounds of technical review from experts around North America. |
$780.00
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Energy Auditor (Test)
(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. |
$150.00
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Energy Calculations (Mini Course)
(2.0 CEU) Study a selection of examples of how we use math to make decisions during an energy audit. This topic is very important for certification exams. |
$50.00
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Energy Metrics: Benchmarks, Standards, and Trends (Micro Course)
(0.8 CEU; 45 minutes) This course explores the contrast between homes in warm climates and cold climates, both in their seasonal energy use and their baseload energy use. This micro course also talks about how the percentages of electricity and gas usage varies throughout the year. This is important information for energy auditors and professionals who analyze energy bills. |
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Evaluating Air-Handler Airflow
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Evaluating HVAC Airflow (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEU) Learn how to evaluate an HVAC system’s airflow and to diagnose inadequate airflow. Study recommend solutions that improve HVAC airflow. |
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Fibrous Insulation (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEUs) Fibrous insulation is the most economical as well as the most commonly used insulation. Study the different materials, products, and installation methods of fibrous insulation. |
$40.00
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Finding Major Air Leaks (Mini Course)
(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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Foam Board Insulation (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEU) Different foam board products have different R-values and other characteristics. Find out how to identify foam board insulation, how to choose the right kind for your job, and how to install foam board. |
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Gas Combustion Heating (Short Course)
(5.5 CEU) Understand the operation of furnaces, space heaters, and hydronic boilers. Recognize the different types of gas furnaces, understand how they work, and find out how to make gas heating systems safer and more efficient. |
$150.00
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Gas Combustion Heating Overview (Mini Course)
(2.0 CEU) Most buildings in the US use gas combustion to provide space heating and water heating. This mini course discusses the different types of burners and venting systems. We explain the science of gas combustion and the major components of gas-combustion devices. |
$50.00
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Gas Furnace Efficiency Strategy (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEU) Gas furnaces come in a variety of designs and sizes, with efficiencies that range from 50% to more than 90%. This mini course discusses and illustrates the three main furnace types and the factors that affect their efficiency. |
$40.00
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Gas Heating Systems Identification (Mini Course)
(2.0 CEU) Learn how combustion appliances vent their combustion byproducts. Understand the difference between open-combustion and sealed-combustion appliances. Recognize the different types of gas-heating equipment and their comparative energy-efficiencies. |
$60.00
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Geometry (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEU) Buildings are composed of geometrical shapes. Refresh your memory about geometry, especially for determining areas and volumes. |
$25.00
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Health and Safety Inspection and Overview (Micro Course)
(0.5 CEU; 30 minutes) Includes a demonstration video on a home health and safety inspection and an overview of health and safety hazards. Materials include a few very informative reading assignments. Saturn's approach to home health and safety is to identify the most statistically significant hazards and to focus on them rather than making an endless list fears. |
$10.00
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Heat Loss and Gain (Mini Course)
(2.0 CEU) Temperature and heat are some of the most important and misunderstood principles of building science. This course explains how temperature and heat flow affect building energy-performance and comfort. |
$50.00
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Heat-Loss Building Science of Walls (Micro Course)
(0.5 CEUs; 30 minutes) Wall insulation is more challenging than floor or ceiling insulation because walls are vertical and experience the kind of chimney effect. This means they are more likely to have convection currents that reduce their thermal resistance, compared to horizontal building assemblies. |
$10.00
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Heating and Cooling Equipment Fundamentals (Short Course)
(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. |
$175.00
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Heating and Cooling Equipment Fundamentals (Test)
Tests knowledge of gas heating, air conditioners, heat pumps, the refrigeration cycle, combustion venting, and equipment identification. |
$75.00
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Heating and Cooling Introduction (Mini Course)
(1.0 CEU) Occupants experience discomfort, sub-optimal health, and reduced productivity in buildings that don’t provide adequate comfort. This lesson covers how the thermal envelope, HVAC systems, and occupant behaviors affect the heating and cooling performance of buildings. |
$35.00
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Heating Load and Annual Consumption (Micro Course)
(0.9 CEUs; 55 minutes) Heating load is a term that describes the capacity of a heater. Annual energy consumption is an important value because it determines how much energy a heating system uses in a year, and from that you can determine the annual cost of heating a building. |
$20.00
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Home Cooling Energy Guide
When it's Summer again, how will you stay cool? Pick up Your Home Cooling Energy Guide!
Air conditioning can cost you a bundle of cash during the hot summer months. The energy needed by all of those air conditioners is also causing air pollution from the power plants. This book will show you ways to cool off that are both affordable and better for the environment!
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Home Energy guide for Cool Climates
This 8.5x11 durable two-sided sheet covers about a dozen good energy efficiency tips that will help any homeowner. This Quick Tip reference sheet is designed for distribution to homeowners and renters as part of weatherization programs, utility energy-conservation programs, and home performance programs. The energy tips are selected based on what people will actually do and also what will definitely save energy and money. We can customize these to your program, climate, and housing types. Illustrations: 2 pie charts and 17 line drawings. |
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Home Energy-Use Outline (Micro Course)
(0.3 CEU; 20 minutes) The video in this micro course provides you with a mental map of home-energy usage. The reading informs you about the relative amount of energy that the energy consumers use. Together, the two should help you realize the different opportunities saving energy and the approximate value of each opportunity. |
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Homeowners Guide to Bldg Performance
The Homeowners Guide to Building Performance is our award-winning consumer booklet that shows the easiest ways to save energy in the home. It doesn’t try to list all possible energy ideas and methods, but instead focuses on the most reliable and effective energy-saving ideas. It also provides solid advice for homeowners who plan to design and build a new home.
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Homeowners Handbook to Energy Efficiency
By John KriggerAre you a new homeowner, or have you lived in your home for a while? Is your place new, or are you living in a older home?; Regardless of your situation, this book is for you! The Homeowner's Handbook to Energy Efficiency helps homeowners of all types set realistic goals for reducing home energy consumption. Plus, once these goals are set this book gives you the knowledge on how to implement those goals. |
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HVAC and Human Comfort (Micro Course)
(0.9 CEU; 55 minutes) Human comfort is what we try to achieve in buildings with heating and cooling systems. This micro course explores how the human body responds to heating and cooling systems. Some HVAC systems provide adequate comfort and some don't, depending on their operation and the human beings in the building. |
$20.00
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HVAC Basics (Short Course)
HVAC Basics 8.0 CEUs
The many components and processes of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) are challenging to understand. The purpose of this course is to help you understand how HVAC systems work, and what you can do to improve their efficiency. This is our most advanced course on HVAC.
1.1 HVAC Retrofit Efficiency Choice—1.5 CEUs
HVAC systems are expensive to replace. If we replace an existing system, we should make it the most efficient systems that the client or organization can afford. This lesson covers how to make the best choices to either service the existing system or select and install the most efficient HVAC system the customer can afford. You’ll learn the following.
Know the four common problems with AC and HP systems.
Understand the two most basic efficiency choices for existing HVAC systems. Service or replacement.
The importance of HVAC equipment sizing and selection.
1.2 HVAC Retro-Commissioning—1.0 CEUs
HVAC systems are expensive to replace. When we solve HVAC problems without replacing the system, we benefit our client. This lesson covers how to improve existing HVAC systems through retro-commissioning. Retro-commissioning evaluates the functioning of HVAC systems through measurement and adjustment. You’ll learn the following.
How to diagnose HVAC-system problems.
How to find effective solutions to HVAC problems.
How to conduct post-improvement tests to measure your success.
The importance of preventative maintenance.
1.3 Evaluating HVAC Airflow—1.5 CEUs
HVAC airflow problems are difficult to diagnose and fix. Poor HVAC airflow can dramatically reduce building energy performance, even if the building is otherwise energy efficient. Never assume that HVAC airflow is sufficient for good HVAC efficiency. This lesson covers the causes and solutions of common HVAC airflow problems. You’ll learn the following.
How to evaluate an HVAC system’s airflow.
How to diagnose inadequate airflow.
How to recommend solutions that improve HVAC airflow.
1.4 Improving HVAC Airflow—1.5 CEUs
HVAC systems are only effective if they distribute the right amount of conditioning to building spaces. Forced-air HVAC systems are notorious for air-distribution problems. This lesson covers conditions that reduce the effectiveness of forced-air distribution systems. You’ll learn how static pressures, equipment maintenance, and duct design affect airflow into rooms. You’ll also learn methods to improve forced-air distribution and solve airflow problems.
1.5 HVAC Refrigeration—2.5 CEUs
Central air conditioners and heat pumps rely on the refrigeration cycle to provide heating and cooling. This lesson explains the refrigeration cycle in simple language with clear diagrams. You’ll learn the following.
How HVAC refrigeration systems work.
Common problems that reduce refrigeration efficiency.
How to recognize refrigeration problems.
How to specify solutions that restore refrigeration effectiveness and increase efficiency. |
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HVAC Refrigeration Cycle Introduction (Micro Course)
(0.6 CEU; 40 minutes) The HVAC refrigeration cycle is a very important concept in building science and HVAC. This micro course is a good introduction or a good refresher course, in case you haven't thought about refrigeration in a while. Most of the content in this course is in the videos, but don't neglect your reading assignment under the Materials tab. |
$15.00
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HVAC Refrigeration (Mini Course)
(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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HVAC Retro-Commissioning (Mini Course)
(1.0 CEU) Retro-commissioning evaluates the functioning of HVAC systems through measurement and adjustment. This lesson covers how to diagnose HVAC-system problems, find effective solutions to HVAC problems, and conduct post-improvement tests to measure your success. You’ll learn the following. |
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HVAC Retrofit Efficiency Choices (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEUs) HVAC systems are expensive to replace. If we replace an existing system, we should make it the most efficient systems that the client or organization can afford. This mini course discusses how to make the best choices to either service the existing system or select and install the most efficient HVAC system the customer can afford. |
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HVAC Systems Field Guide
by John KriggerThe Saturn HVAC Systems Field Guide contains a wealth of job-tested procedures for improving the safety and efficiency of furnaces, air conditioners, boilers, evaporative coolers, and domestic water-heating systems. It includes specific instructions for reducing the operating cost of HVAC systems by 10 to 40 percent.T |
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Hydronic Heating Systems
by John KriggerThis technical brief covers the selection, design, and installation concerns for hydronic heating systems. For more detailed information on this subject see Residential Energy: Cost Savings and Comfort for Existing Buildings. For a complete list of our publications, visit our Bookstore. |
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Hydronic Heating Systems Field Guide
by John KriggerThe Hydronic Systems Field Guide describes the best procedures for evaluating and tuning both steam and hot-water heating systems. It outlines the best ways to optimize the efficiency of all types of delivery systems, including baseboard emitters, fan-coils, and radiant slabs. It also specifies the critical parameters for the installation of new systems.The Hydronic Systems Field Guide is illustrated with dozens of drawings, photographs, charts, and tables. It includes seven chapters and an extensive appendix. |
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Improving HVAC Airflow (Mini Course)
(1.5 CEU) HVAC systems are only effective if they distribute the right amount of conditioning to building spaces. Forced-air HVAC systems are notorious for air-distribution problems. You’ll learn how static pressures, equipment maintenance, and duct design affect airflow into rooms. You’ll also learn methods to improve forced-air distribution and solve airflow problems. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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Your Mobile Home
Energy and Repair Guide for Manufactured HousingBy John Krigger You'll learn step-by-step procedures for weatherizing your mobile home, as well as improving the heating and cooling systems. From flood recovery, windstorm resistance, earthquake-safe foundation, and landscaping, this book explains it all in simple terms that are easy for everyone to understand. With this book, you’ll become much more knowledgeable about your home. With that knowledge, you'll be able to make your home more energy efficient and safer. That will save YOU money, as well as make you healthier and make your home last for many more years! |
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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. |
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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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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Online Training Voucher - Large
Buy a $5000 course voucher and save 10%. You can send this voucher to someone else via email. Use your voucher during checkout. |
Original price was: $5,000.00.$4,500.00Current price is: $4,500.00.
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Online Training Voucher - Medium
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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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 Energy - Revised 7th Edition; Single Copy
Guide to building science, insulation, air sealing, HVAC, low-energy cooling, and building diagnosis. Most complete book on energy efficiency for buildings. |
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Residential HVAC
by John Krigger & Rick FalkeThis technical brief is designed for professional HVAC technicians and other technically astute trade specialists. Residential HVAC Systems outlines step-by-step procedures for choosing, designing, and tuning furnaces, heat pumps, and air conditioners. |
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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! |
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Residential Ventilation
Residential Ventilation Systems by John KriggerThis technical brief is designed for the professional tradesmen and motivated homeowners. Airtight homes need whole-house mechanical ventilation systems. If you have poor indoor air quality or problems with mold and mildew, you need this booklet. |
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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. |
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Saturn Weatherization Field Guide — 480 pages; over 500 illustrations (1st edition 2024)
This field guide documents the author’s first-hand experience starting in the mid-1970s. Over 300 expert technicians, who specialized in insulation, air sealing, windows, HVAC, moisture management, and low-cost cooling contributed their experience to the the field guide. |
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