Download - Green 101 - Standards for Green
Greening your life – with a focus on your career
Green Labels
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Green Standards
Organic – food EnergyStar –
appliances and houses LEED – buildings and
people FSC – wood products
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Green Building Rating Systems
For professionals?
For buildings?
Software training
Commercial or Residential
Hands on Training?
BPI Y N N Residential Y
RESNET Y Y Y Residential Y
LEED Y Y N Commercial (mostly)
N
EnergyStar N Y N Residential N
National Green Building Standard
Y Y N Residential N
Passive House Y Y Y! All types N
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Green Jobs
Many “green” jobs are existing jobs, updated for the new economy Construction-related jobs Manufacturing-related jobs Auto-worker Utility
Many of the skills required for these jobs are also standardized using accreditations
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LEED
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LEED Accreditation
Legacy LEED AP
“LEED Green Associate” requirements:
Experience on one LEED-registered project
OR work in field of sustainability (or previous employment)
OR proof of completion of green building education, like an exam prep course
AND pass 2-hour LEED GA examMust complete 15 hrs. of CE every two
years
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Building Performance Institute
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A national resource for building science technology that sets standards for assessing and
improving home energy
Est 1993 first Cert in 1996
Uses the house-as-a-system approach to assessing a home
Is the required certification for many Home Performance with Energy Star
Programs HPwES
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BPI Specialties
Fundamentals ---------------------------------- Intermediate Level Specialties -----------------------------------
Certification Name Building Analyst Envelope / Shell
Manufactured Housing
HeatingA/C or Heat
Pump
Core Curriculum
Buildings and their Systems
Envelope systems and their interaction with other
building systems
Manufactured housing systems and their
interaction with other manufactured housing
systems
Heating systems and their interaction with other
building systems
A/C heat or heat pump systems and their
interaction with other building systems
Optimization Analyzing Building Systems
Optimizing building envelope systems and
their interaction with building systems
Optimizing manufactured housing systems and
their interaction with building systems
Optimizing heatingsystems and their
interaction with building systems
Optimizing A/C and heat pump systems and their interaction with building
systems
Reference Standards BPI standards and Project Specifications
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RESNET Standards
Recognized for Accreditation of rating providers, rater training providers,
and rating software tools Verification of energy savings for energy efficient mortgages
(EEMs) Verification of a home's energy performance for EPA's
ENERGY STAR Homes Program and the Department of Energy’s Building America Program
Performance option for energy code compliance in 16 states Verification of energy performance in state utility benefit
program funded residential energy efficiency programs in 9 states
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HERS Index
The HERS Reference Home sets the standard at 100.
Homes that are more efficient than the standard will score lower on the scale. For each percentage point that the home in question is more efficient than the reference home, the home is rated 1 point lower on the scale.
Energy Star homes score an 85 or lower (80 or lower in Northern climate zones)
Builder’s Challenge homes score a 70 or lower
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NABCEP
North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners Install, design and sell solar photovoltaic systems, solar
thermal, and small wind
Images and Text from Nabcep.org
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IGSHPA
International Ground Source Heat Pump Association
Certify ground source heat pump installers and drillers
Images from Igshpa.okstate.edu
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Carpenters,
Electricians, HVAC Laborers
BPI and/or
RESNET training
Energy auditor or residential retrofit
contractor
Architects, Engineers, Electrician
s, Carpenters, Lawyers, Real Estate Agents, etc
LEED Certification
Green Commercial Real Estate
project design, finance,
management, construction
Machinists, sheet
metal, iron and steel workers,
engineers
Wind Energy Certification
Wind Turbine Installer
and technicia
nElectricians, laborers,
contractors,
electrical engineers, welders
Solar PV & Solar Thermal Certification
Solar power
installer and
technician
Plumbers, architects,
civil engineers
IGSHPA Training
Ground source
heat pump installation
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For Career Starters or Changers
If you’re entering a 2 or 4 year program, there are a number of green careers in the fields of: Agriculture Biotech Construction Energy Natural resources management Advocacy Transportation
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Green Your Job
Realtor Janitor Teacher Hotelier Dog walker Lawyer, accountant, small business owner…
any job can be greened.