Building Science 3.5 Day Certification

Are you an Energy Auditor that wants to increase the accuracy and speed of the audit? Are you thinking that the infrared camera is a must-have tool but you don't know how to use it? Then CleanEdison's Building Science 3.5 Day Certification Course is perfect for you.
This three-and-a-half day course includes lecture and laboratory components plus intensive one-on-one instruction in camera operation and building fundamentals as required by individual students to achieve certification level skills. This course provides an intensive level of theory and hands-on operation of the infrared camera in building inspections. It covers basic building design and construction, principles of air control, heating and cooling, moisture evaluation and control, energy use, and electrical problems, and includes tips on marketing and selling infrared inspection services. The course is designed to enable both new infrared camera users and practicing thermographers to become certified in commercial and residential building inspection.
Insurance companies, restoration firms, building owners, and thermographers already involved in building maintenance and operations require a thorough applications training curriculum leading to certification in infrared building science. In response, CleanEdison has developed a course for technicians and supervisors ,and those wishing to receive Building Science Certification. These courses address the best practices of the cleaning and restoration industry with content drawn from extensive field experience in thermography and building construction. They include references to actual cases illustrating how IR thermography has pinpointed sources of building moisture, provided definitive cause and origin data, enabled energy savings, and prevented incipient catastrophes. Like all CleanEdison courses, the Building Science series emphasizes practical real-world skill building, and includes infrared theory relevant to these skills.
Why?
- Fast, noninvasive, safe and minimizes need for building disassembly
- Find moisture sources and structural problems quickly
- Locate heating & cooling losses with pinpoint accuracy
- Minimize disturbance of occupants and ongoing operations
- Generate reports of inspection results in seconds
- Facilitate the selection of agencies and trades for restoration
- Repair with maximum speed and assurance
- Document as-built or post-repair/restoration conditions
- Protect against frivolous complaints
- Provide evidentiary basis for fair settlements
- Provide competitive advantage for restoration firms
Who?
- Energy Auditors
- General Contractors
- Roofers
- HERS Raters
- Home Inspectors
- HVAC Professionals
- Insulation Professionals
- Electricians
- Home Builders
- Engineers
- Architects
Course Includes
Every thermography course comes with student guide, accompanying CD, and presentation manual.
This course also provides a continental breakfast each morning.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites to take this course.
Syllabus
CLASSROOM TRAINING
- How to use your infrared camera
- Basics of building construction designs, terminology, and materials
- Heat transfer physics as it specifically applies to buildings
- Indoor and outdoor building inspection methods
- Typical thermal patterns associated with traditional building defects
- Basics of building science, including stack effect, moisture control, and principles of air control heating & cooling
- Moisture verification methods (penetrating/non-penetrating)
- Water damage evaluation and drying methods
- Avoiding mistakes: hot spots vs. reflections and direct vs. indirect readings
- Safe building inspection methods and techniques
- How to report infrared analysis findings with IR reporting software
- Photo documentation techniques, including 35 mm, digital and video
- Interpreting thermograms using heat transfer concepts
- Developing skills to certification level with custom-built lab experiments
Last Updated: Saturday, July 31 2010 19:44