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Green Building Education has developed a training program, Building the Green Home, which is beneficial for not only contractors and trades-people in the residential building construction industry, but also for developers and homeowners. The Residential program was developed through collaboration between home builders/developers and crafts persons. This curriculum is essentially industry specific to new construction, but it also contains aspects of renovation/additions and modular/manufactured housing. It gives the attendees knowledge of current ratings systems and explores the categories of rating systems and tools.

Who Should Attend This Course?

Architects, Developers, General Contractors, Homeowners, Energy Raters, and anyone pursuing Green Building and Sustainability as a career.

Why Should You Attend This Course?

This course also affords an understanding of the prescriptive systems that assign points to various conservation features, computational systems which use tools to estimate energy consumption and performance systems that assess the energy efficiency ratings based on past fuel consumption. The extent of field validation/verification of individual systems and tools is discussed. An overview of the use and implementation of a home energy rating systems; LEED®, Green Globes®, NAHB®, Energy Star, RESNET®, HERS® is also included. The Residential program meets the same high standards as our commercial offering and can adequately prepare the attendee for many of the industry's certification tests.

Upon completion of this training, students will be able to:

• Identify core components and concepts of green building design and construction
• Apply sustainable concepts to residential construction and remodeling
• Identify and be able to apply best building practices as they relate to: Site management, Water conservation and control
• Energy conservation and management, Materials selections and usage, Indoor air and environmental quality
• Identify and understand the various residential rating systems

Please Note:  This course meets the LEED for Homes Green Rater eligibility qualification for 8 hours of education that comprehensively covers residential green building strategies.