Performing a Home Energy Audit Course
Welcome to InterNACHI's free online "Performing a Home Energy Audit Course." This course is provided by our accredited college at internachi.edu.
Goal:
The goal of this course is to teach the student how to perform a full energy audit conducted on a typical house according to a national building performance technical standard.
Objective:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to perform a full energy audit conducted on a typical house according to a national building performance technical standard, including how to identify and report on moisture intrusion in residential buildings.
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The course includes:
- 2 InterNACHI® CE credit hours;
- 1,464 words;
- 1.5 hours of instructional video;
- inspection and writing assignment;
- research and writing assignment;
- 12 quiz questions in one quiz;
- 50-question final exam (drawn from a larger pool);
- instant grading;
- a downloadable, printable Certificate of Completion;
Join Cliff Babson and Scott Harris as they demonstrate how to perform a whole-house energy audit assessment. Whether you are preparing for a building analyst exam or looking to learn the basics of performing energy audits, this video will teach you the following:
- Exterior walkthrough
- Blower Door setup and diagnostics
- Intro to infrared imaging
- Air leakage in the building envelope
- Combustion Appliance Zone (CAZ) testing and worst-case depressurization
- Developing a work scope
| Performing a Home Energy Audit Course | ||
|---|---|---|
| Course #4002, Student Catalog | ||
| www.nachi.org/energy-audit-course | ||
| Student Work | Time Calculation | Estimated Clock Hour Time for the Average Student |
| Attendance for "Seat Time" 1 | # of minutes of student attendance / 50 | 3.0 |
| Participation in Learning Activities 2 | # of minutes of online student participation / 50 | 1.0 |
| Interactivity 3 | # of minutes of student interactivity / 50 | 0.5 |
| Reading the Course Text 4 | # of words in the course / 100 words per minute / 50 | 0.5 |
| Reading the Course Textbook 5 | # of words in the book / 100 words per minute / 50 | 0.5 |
| Academic Engagement 6 | # of words in the course / 100 / 50 | 1.0 |
| Direct Communication 7 | # of minutes of communication / 50 | 0.5 |
| Instructional Video Learning 8 | # of minutes of video / 50 | 1.5 |
| Reinforcement Q & A 9 | # of questions X 1.85 / 50 | 0.5 |
| Writing Assignment of the Inspection 10 | 4.0 hours per assignment | 4.0 |
| Writing Assignment of the Research 11 | 4.0 hours per assignment | 4.0 |
| Academic Activities for an Inspection 12 | 8.0 hours for each inspection assignment | 8.0 |
| Performing an Inspection 13 | 8.0 hours for each inspection | 8.0 |
| * nachi.org/catalog-credit-hour-calculation | 30.0 | |
| Total clock hours | 30.0 clock hours 30.0 InterNACHI CE Hours 3.0 CEU | |
Reminder to members: InterNACHI's Code of Ethics 1.10 requires that you comply with all government rules and licensing requirements of the jurisdiction where you conduct business. InterNACHI's courses and Standards generally exceed the Standards of Practice that you are required to abide by locally.
This course has been approved by:
- the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors;
- the Master Inspector Certification Board;
- the International Association of Certified Indoor Air Consultants;
- the Certified Commercial Property Inspectors Association; and
- many government agencies and licensing boards.
This training is based upon the Building Performance Institute® technical standards for a Certified Building Analyst Professional. This training will NOT certify you as a BPI® Building Analyst. This course does not cover considerable building science and procedural training to become BPI® certified.
Guest inspector, Cliff Babson:
Cliff Babson, Executive Director at Building Performance Contractors Association of New York and the head of the board of technical standards for CleanEdison, is a nationally recognized training affiliate of the Building Performance Institiute® (BPI®). Cliff has over 25 years of experience in construction and building energy management. Before joining CleanEdison, Cliff managed the residential contracting department at a premier home performance contractor in the northeast. He oversaw efficiency retrofits, including HVAC upgrades, building envelope improvements, and Solar installations, and became an expert on TREAT modeling software. He has overseen more than 1,000 home audits and also specializes in commercial building energy systems.
Guest inspector Scott Harris:
Scott has over 25 years of experience in building engineering, construction and safety assessments. He is a Certified Master Inspector (CMI®), having completed over 1,000 home inspections to earn the inspection industry’s most prestigious designation. Scott has extensive training experience and has performed over 400 energy audits.
Upon completion of this course and passing the 50-question final exam (drawn from a larger pool), the student can download and print their own Certificate of Completion, which is auto-generated in their own name.
The student's (InterNACHI member's) information is recorded on InterNACHI's servers for membership compliance verification, and automatically logs completion into InterNACHI's online Continuing Education log.
Members will need their username and password. If you have forgotten your password, CLICK HERE (instant response) or email fastreply@internachi.org and request it (don't forget your name).
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Some features that make InterNACHI's courses superior to existing continuing education options:
- The course is free for all InterNACHI members.
- The course is written in pure XHTML code for quick loading. The course loads fine on old computers and loads fast, even with dial-up.
- The course is designed using a hierarchal menu coupled with a sequential page navigation. This provides the student with the option to easily repeat areas of weakness.
- The course permits the student to start, stop and restart any part of the course as often as desired.
- There are a variety of images within the course, including diagrams, illustrations and photos.
- The illustrations can be enlarged for clearer viewing by clicking on them.
- The text is integrated into InterNACHI's Inspector Glossary. Rolling over blue-colored terms provides their definition.
- The final exam uses multiple-choice questions that reference the images.
- The course's quizzes and final exam have numerous advantages over traditional exam systems:
- The course, quizzes and final exam incorporate built-in intelligence which identifies and strengthens each student's unique subject weaknesses.
- Not only is each question weighted with regard to score, but each answer is weighted, as well as the correctness of each answer being weighted.
- Answers to easy questions are weighted such that the student is penalized, in terms of score, for answering incorrectly, but rewarded modestly for answering correctly.
- Answers to difficult questions are weighted such that the student is rewarded, in terms of score, for answering correctly, but not penalized for answering incorrectly.
- Answers to questions regarding basic safety, or questions every inspector should know the answer to, are weighted such that the student is severely penalized, in terms of score, for answering incorrectly.
- Upon passing the final exam, the student can print out a Certificate of Completion which is auto-generated in their own name.
The student's (InterNACHI member's) information is recorded on InterNACHI's servers for membership compliance verification, and automatically logs completion into InterNACHI's online Continuing Education log.
Why online inspector education is better than classroom inspector education.
