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Home Energy Rating System (HERS) Rater Training, Online, April 13 to May 5, 8:30 am - 2:30 pm
Southface’s Home Energy Rating System (HERS) Rater training is a comprehensive course that prepares students to properly test and model residential homes. This training is taught in a live-virtual format. Each day of training is … more...
School facility and custodial staff members are unsung heroes in the quest for healthy and high-performing school buildings that contribute to thriving environments for students. GPRO O+M training for building operations and maintenance equips facility and cus… more...
Operations & Maintenance of High-Performance Buildings, Online, April 28-29, 12 - 3 pm ET
A high-performance building “consistently delivers a highly productive environment without wasting resources” (ASHRAE Guideline 32: Sustainable High-Performance Operations and Maintenance). Operating and maintaining high-performance buildings often… more...
Designing with Impact in Mind, Online, April 28, 2 - 4 pm
With hundreds of green product certifications on the market and persistent greenwashing, it can be difficult for designers to know what kind of impacts the materials they select for a project are having on the health of our climate, ecosystems, communities, an… more...
Electrification is now the leading option for new buildings and major retrofit projects in California - and beyond. In California alone, 70+ municipalities have policies to phase out gas appliances, and the state aims to have six million heat pumps instal… more...
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