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


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


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


LEED


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


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


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


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


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


IGSHPA

International Ground Source Heat Pump Association

Certify ground source heat pump installers and drillers

Images from Igshpa.okstate.edu


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


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


Green Your Job

Realtor Janitor Teacher Hotelier Dog walker Lawyer, accountant, small business owner…

any job can be greened.

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