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Our program has received reports of phishing emails and individuals falsely claiming to represent the Energy Friendly Homes Program.
If you are contacted by someone claiming to represent the program, please verify their identity by contacting us directly through our phone number at 971.399.7742 or email at info@EnergyFriendlyHomes.com before taking any action.
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For four decades, the National Home Performance Conference has been a launching pad for ideas, partnerships, and real progress in home performance, weatherization, and healthy housing. This milestone year is about more than looking back—it’s about building on the momentum we’ve created together and shaping the future.
Join us in Columbus in 2026 as thousands of contractors, weatherization professionals, healthy homes experts, trainers, program administrators, energy auditors, and others in residential energy efficiency gather for the latest industry education and networking.
This Building Science Principles course is a 1- day training designed to introduce weatherization and building science principles. Students will participate in classroom instruction and laboratory work using the Building Performance Institute’s Building Science Principles Reference Guide.
Designed specifically for analysts, auditors and technicians who may perform inspections. Our IREC-accredited 5-day Energy Analyst course prepares participants to complete a comprehensive evaluation of a performance-based energy audit to include requisite documentation.
REA Energy Analyst is in alignment with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory/U.S. Department of Energy Job Task Analysis (JTA) of the Energy Auditor. The course is broken down into five days of instruction focusing on the job description/duties outlined in the JTA.
This course is designed for the comprehensive evaluation and documentation of a performance-based energy audit specifically of the building shell, assessment of the efficiency and safety of the mechanical systems, and to establish the most cost-effective weatherization strategies using skills learned in the course. These include principles of energy, energy and the building shell, air leakage and the dynamics of pressure differentials, insulation types, windows and doors, heating and cooling systems, indoor air quality (including ASHRAE 62.2-2016 calculations), lighting and appliances, water heating, and health and safety. Students will learn the fundamental concepts related to building science, air leakage testing, and performance-based energy auditing.
Designed for auditors and technicians who perform inspections and create work scopes based on energy efficiency upgrades and home health & safety, our IREC-accredited 5-day Diagnostic Technician course prepares participants to diagnose a variety of issues that impact optimal energy efficiency.
What You’ll Learn:
How to use diagnostic tools such as a blower door, duct blaster, combustion analyzer and flow meter
How to test combustion appliances to assure optimal operation
How to use a digital monometer to measure appliance draft, combustion appliance zone (CAZ) depressurization and room-to-room pressure imbalances
How to utilize pressure differentials
Daily safety test-out procedures
Fundamentals of air exchange
Influence of air sealing on indoor air quality
How to assess relative humidity levels.
