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Home Performance Contractor Conversations
Home Performance Sales Process Improvement
Join us for conversations with home performance contractors and industry experts on communicating the benefits and business case for home performance. Our focus during this webinar series is on communicating the value and benefits of whole house home performance.
The construction industry is changing rapidly. 'Energy efficiency' are no longer just buzzword. Today’s successful contractors and trades must manage the strategic big picture while staying connected to the jobsite and communicating to clients at the table.
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has committed substantial resources towards the significant reduction of residential energy waste in homes.
DOE is helping to professionalize the industry by documenting ways to perform quality work, establishing a robust accreditation program for training providers, and creating professional certifications that will enable energy upgrade workers to differentiate their skills in the marketplace. DOE's partnership with contractors, trade associations, and state and local programs is making homes more efficient, safe and healthy. DOE's Better Buildings program, for example, has enabled grantees to experiment with a variety of innovative sales approaches for building demand in the private market. When government sponsored programs test market-based strategies and stimulate private sector demand and jumpstart a new market, everyone benefits.
This webinar will provide policy level perspectives on the industry from DOE for home performance contractor sales teams:
•How home energy upgrade initiatives are strengthening the construction industry
How home energy upgrade initiatives are strengthening the construction industry•Standardization of the home performance industry certifications
Standardization of the home performance industry certifications•Creating market opportunities for home energy upgrade contractors
Creating market opportunities for home energy upgrade contractors•Selling and Delivering comfort to homeowners
Selling and Delivering comfort to homeownersContinuing Education Units
Building Performance Institute - BPI
This webinar qualifies for 1.5 Continuing Education Credits Live.
International Association of Certified Home Inspectors - InterNACHI
This webinar qualifies for 1.5 InterNACHI CE Hours.
National Association of the Remodeling Industry - NARI
This webinar qualifies for 0.15 NARI CEU's.
Presenters
What are the essential strategies for transitioning to home performance?
Discover how a business transition can be made effectively with best practices for successful transitions. Companies can take advantage of, and benefit from, a transition framework to accelerate transition. Learning to apply a transition framework to your unique organizational situation is the starting place.
This orientation to a Transition Framework is your starting place.
Jennifer Green works as the California Center for Sustainable Energy’s (CCSE) Retrofit Education Manager. In her present role, she develops and implements building performance training and education offerings for contractors. She also develops workforce employment paths through CCSE programs. In previous roles at CCSE, Jennifer worked on policy research, analysis and implementation representing CCSE in legislative an regulatory proceedings. Jennifer is a Building Performance Institute Certified Analyst and Envelope Professional as well as a HERS I and HERS II certified rater.
Julie Hughes is a senior policy advisor in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. At DOE, she focuses on a variety of energy efficiency issues that range from strengthening healthy homes efforts when homes are weatherized, to enabling state and local entities to accelerate the adoption of energy efficiency to transform local markets. Prior to her work at DOE, Julie served as chief of staff for New York City’s energy policy department under the leadership of Mayor Bloomberg. She began her career as a consultant in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ environmental practice.
Ben Gromicko is Director of Education for InterNACHI, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, the world’s largest organization of residential and commercial property inspectors who perform more than 10,000 property inspections every day. Ben trains home inspectors to educate homeowners in understanding the functions, materials, systems and components of their properties. He strives to have all inspectors committed to providing consistent, accessible and trusted information to their clients about their properties' condition and energy efficiency.
Dan Ignosci is a Home Performance Advisor for Comfort Advisors. With the assistance of educational and training offerings provided by the California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE), Comfort Advisors has successfully transitioned from a HVAC contractor exclusively to a company that provides improved air quality and comfort through the utilization of advanced home performance best practices. Prior to becoming a part of the Comfort Advisors team, Dan spent more than a decade in sales and sales management. Dan is certified by the Building Performance Institute (BPI) as a Building Analyst and Envelope Professional.
