The Building Performance Institute Inc. (BPI) has extended its application deadline for candidates wishing to take BPI’s pilot Home Energy Professional (HEP) certification exams. Candidates should send their applications in to BPI by close of business on July 31, 2012.
If contractors sit back and refuse to get involved in home performance, they may find themselves taking orders from an energy "expert" who's had five days of training.
HVAC contractors and manufacturers recently gathered with builders, remodelers, public utility representatives, government officials, and more to discuss home performance at Affordable Comfort Inc.’s (ACI) National Home Performance Conference.
Consumers often seek out products that are considered to be the best or most efficient in their class. For this reason, many only consider highly fuel-efficient cars, Energy Star labeled refrigerators, or televisions rated as top performers in consumer magazines. This principle may work with other types of products, but will it work when it comes to the purchase of a high-efficiency heating and/or cooling system?
The Building Performance Institute Inc. (BPI) has created a new website featuring tactics and tools that adapt quality management systems (QMS) for home performance contractors. QMS is a management approach for integrating quality control with business processes.
The Building Performance Institute Inc. (BPI) has announced another new accreditation option for HVAC contracting companies. BPI said it will now accept the Refrigeration Service Engineers Society (RSES) certifications as prerequisite criteria for its accreditation program.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced that it is soliciting input from all parties regarding how DOE can best support the expansion of HVACR businesses into residential whole-house energy-efficiency services. DOE has now extended the deadline for input to June 1.
SolarCity®, a leader in clean energy services, has unveiled a new Home Energy Loan for energy efficiency upgrades that the company says will make cleaner indoor air, greater comfort, and lower energy bills more accessible to American homeowners.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is soliciting input from all parties regarding how DOE can best support the expansion of HVACR businesses into residential whole-house, energy-efficiency services through new initiatives or by building upon existing HVACR to home performance efforts underway within the industry.