Retrofit Installer Technician
Pressure Diagnostics 101
- Class times: 1 day
- Course tuition: $200 if paid separately
- Course CEUs: N/A
Description:
This course will provide for an understanding of pressure diagnostics analysis and includes both classroom and laboratory experience. Participants will use the Minneapolis Blower Door to perform pressure diagnostics to locate solutions to ineffective energy problems with the residential environment.
Energy 101
- Class times: 1 day
- Course tuition: $200 if paid separately
- Course CEUs: N/A
Description:
This one-day training will provide the participant with an overview of basic building science principles including weatherization basics, principles of applied building science, pressure diagnostics, and thermal performance.
Combustion Safety 101
- Class times: 1 day
- Course tuition: $200 if paid separately
- Course CEUs: N/A
Description:
This course demonstrates the need for combustion and workplace safety.
Residential Energy Retrofit Applications 101
- Class times: 2 days
- Course tuition: $400 if paid separately
- Course CEUs: N/A
Description:
Day one of this course covers typical weatherization measures, mobile home basics and assessment/evaluation. Day two consists of a review of day one,a field test and a written test.
EPA Lead Renovator and Repair (RRP) Certification
- Class times: 1 day
- Course tuition: $300 if paid separately
- Course CEUs: N/A
Description:
This course will allow for students to learn regulations, best practices, safety procedures as well as set up and clean up of equipment.
OSHA 10
- Class times: 1.5 days
- Course tuition: $250 if paid separately
- Course CEUs: N/A
Description:
The 10 Hour Construction Industry Outreach Training Program is intended to provide an entry level construction worker’s general awareness on recognizing and preventing hazards on a construction site. OSHA recommends Outreach Training Program courses as an orientation to occupational safety and health for workers covered by OSHA 29 CFR 1926. Workers must receive additional training, when required by OSHA standards, on the specific hazards of the job.
Thermal Performance 101
- Class times: 1 day
- Course tuition: $200 if paid separately
- Course CEUs: N/A
Description:
This course will review the basic physics of how heat flows into and out of a house; installation standards, both new and retrofit; techniques that can be employed to find potential insulation problems including visual inspection, pressure diagnostics and infrared thermography. Review of common insulation types and their properties. Introduction to a number of potential solutions to common thermal defects found in homes. Introduction to infrared thermography, its use in the residential environment and basic ways to use infrared imaging to improve effectiveness of diagnostics. In addition, the course will cover basic ground rules for effective use of the camera, including conditions which will increase/decrease effectiveness and ideas on how to document and record work.