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Why Energy Audit Training Courses for BPI Certification?

There are three main reasons people choose energy audit training courses for BPI Certification.

1) They want to use BPI Certification to inspect existing homes. 2) They want to do retrofit work (remodel existing homes). A number of the BPI certified energy auditors are contractors with a focus on retrofit work. 3) They want to qualify for State or local incentive programs. The BPI organization has spent a lot of time lobbying for acceptance by government programs and drafting legislation to have their standards used as a basis for home energy auditing verification.

NOTE:

BPI and RESNET do not offer Commercial Energy Audit Training. They focus on Home only. But with this Turn-Key package you get Commercial training added to your BPI training. Double your market.

The Training

Training for the BPI certification has 3 parts.

First, there is the learning part.

This can be done in a classroom or through online training. We chose online training because it has a tremendous advantage over classroom training. It delivers better test results and it results in better long-term comprehension. In other words, during a typical “classroom” training, you will get a ton of information dumped on you in a very short period of time.
The result is a lot of that information is lost. You may remember enough to get through the test, but long term memory in such classroom sessions is difficult.
Online learning is key. It allows you to review the materials. It allows you to take your time to get the information down where you really know it. If you wake up the next day and can’t remember whether it was 30 or 50 pascals for the blower door testing, you simply rewind the online learning and review. This process makes
learning easy, fast and permanent.

This course provides all the training necessary to become certified as BPI Building Analyst Professional.

The Home Energy Audit Training course for BPI Certification package includes:


– Access to the exclusive Online BPI e-Learning Training Course. 24-hours of e-Learning Modules with a video instructor
– 90-min Energy Audit Training & Field Exam Prep DVD
– 1-day of Onsite Hands-On Field Training
– The Residential Energy textbook by Krigger and Dorsi – mailed to you so you have a hard-copy for learning and taking notes.
– Course Study Guides that help you prepare for and study better.
- Practice Exam Questions to make the exam easier.

- The BPI Building Analyst Written Exam
– The BPI Building Analyst Practical Field Exam

Second, there is the written examination part.

You must sit for a written exam (computer based) in the presence of a BPI certified proctor. When you take your training with us, you will have access to the 9 different training locations across the United States to take your written exam.
so you can ask your proctor questions and get last minute advice before starting your test.

Note: This is included in this BPI & Commercial Package.

Third, is the Field Exam.

To get BPI certification, you are required to take and pass a live field exam. The Field Exam included with this package provides you with a full day training and overview using the actual blower doors, combustion analyzers and other tools that you will use in the exam. (You do not need tools to take the field exam, all tools will be provided for you).
The field exam is a 2 hour exam, with a BPI Proctor monitoring you and grading your performance. You will perform an actual audit, focusing the majority of your time on combustion analysis and combustion zone depressurization testing and CO testing using the tools provided for the exam. (You will need your own tools for doing your own audits, and we sell those as well. Click here to visit our tools page. If you want to purchase your tools and bring them to the field exam, you can do that and the instructors will help you get familiar with your new tools).
When you take your training with us, you will have access to our 9 separate training locations across the United States to take your Field Exam.

Note: This is included in this BPI & Commercial Package.

What if I don’t pass the written or field exam?

If you fail to pass your certification exam, for any reason, you can retake the online course curriculum at no additional charge until you achieve a passing grade. (You will need to pay for the re-testing fees to BPI and the Proctor fees. Your first written and field testing fees are included in this package price.)
With our exclusive online learning, there is a 90+% pass rate, so you are in good hands.

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Certification is Important

BPI Certification is one of the most recognized certifications in the Energy Audit profession. To get the certification, you need to first pass the written exam, then pass the field exam.

The two exams can be taken as separate times. Generally, you have up to 1 year after passing the written exam to take and pass the field exam.

Failure to pass the written or field exam means you must retest. Each time you retest you must pay the written and field exam fees to both the proctor for their time to proctor your test and to BPI for the certification process.

You will receive a written assessment of your written exam and of your field exam from BPI. If you pass, you will be provided with a BPI certification for your specialty you chose. Most people start with the BPI Building Analyst then go on to take the Building Envelope course.

Do I Need To Be Certified?

Short answer. Depends.

(YES). If you want to perform audits that require BPI diagnostic results as proof of before and after energy use, then yes. There are a number of state and local incentives that use the BPI energy audit as the threshold.

(NO). If you want to perform energy audits that do not require the BPI diagnostics, then you do not need the BPI certification.

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Denby Energy Training is written expressly for your success.

Designed for your success.

Commercial Energy Audit Training Includes:

Module 1: Introduction – Basics of Energy

You’ll Learn:
1) Where energy comes from
2) How it gets to the business
3) AC vs DC power
4) What is a Watt.

Reducing watts by a few percentages can result in significant dollar savings for your clients.

Module 2: Building Envelope

You’ll Learn:
1) How to understand heat transfer
2) How energy bills can tell you how to tight your building envelope is
3) All about insulation – the different types, uses and the R-Value.

Aluminum transfers heat at over 900 times the rate of wood. Reducing the thermal bridge in a building can save owners hundreds of dollars in heating and cooling costs.

Module 3: Lighting

You’ll Learn:
1) The different types of lighting (CFLs, LEDs, tube fluorescents, HID, and more)
2) How to quantify exactly how much it costs to run a lamp
3) How to significantly lower energy bills.

Lighting can account for almost 60% of energy use of some facilities. With simple lighting changes you can potentially save business owners 10% or more a year!

Module 4: Energy Bills

You’ll Learn:
1) How to read electric and gas bills
2) Why Demand Charges add large costs to the energy bill – and how to eliminate them
3) Various electric rate schedules that can save money
4) How to read a meter.

Reducing Demand Charges on a small facility can save them almost $150 a month, or $1,800 a year!

Module 5: Heating and Cooling

You’ll Learn:
1) Fundamentals of heat
2) Different types of heat
3) Different types of cool
4) How to determine the conditioning units.

Increasing the SEER rating of an air conditioning system from 8 to 14 can reduce the operating cost from about $130 per ton of cooling, to about $74 per ton. For a savings of $56 per ton!

Module 6: Machines and Motors

You’ll Learn:
1) How to calculate Watts, Volts, Amps
2) How to distinguish between nameplate and actual rating
3) Why efficiency ratings can save your client thousands of dollars a year.
4) Variable speed drives and why they are critical to energy efficiency.

Changing a motor from 24 hp to 15 hp can result in savings of over $3,400 a year.

Module 7: Economics of Energy

You’ll Learn:
1) Saving energy does not always mean saving money
2) Simple payback method, Life-Cycle costs, Time Value of Money, compound interest, uniform
    series cash flow
3) How to calculate the Return on Investment and determine Future Value of a project.

Motor A may cost $200 less than Motor B but when you do a Life-Cycle cost, Motor A actually costs $1,500 more than Motor B – a savings you can see!

Module 8: Basics of Contracts

You’ll Learn:
1) What makes a contract a Contract
2) The Basics of reading/writing a contract
3) What constitutes a Breach and how it is determined.

You actually enter into contracts every day, learn what they are and how you can understand them.

Module 9: Making Money

You’ll Learn:
1) How to make money doing energy audits
2) The Pro’s and Con’s of two major methods for charging for your services
3) Strategic negotiating points that will ensure you close the deal.

A $5,000 investment in the bank would increase $3,145 in 10 years. A $5,000 investment in energy efficiency could turn into $55,100 in 10 years! Educating your client is key to your success.

Module 10: Incorporating & Insurance

You’ll Learn:
1) Which company structure is best for you, LLC, S Corp, Partnership
2) The advantages and disadvantages of each corporation structure
3) The basic types of insurance available and how they apply to energy auditing.

Get virtually the same protections as the Blue Chip companies for a fraction of the cost without the restrictive procedural requirements.

Module 11: Immersion Module

You’ll Learn:
1) To turn a 20 minute lunch appointment into serious money in your pocket
2) To identify easy low hanging fruit that can make energy savings easy to do and very
    lucrative.

If you do nothing but focus on “low-hanging-fruit”, you can make a great living saving energy. This example shows how you can save a restaurant over $1,000 a year by making some simple changes.

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Online Video Learning is the Best Way to Learn

1) It’s easy. Just sit back and let the video trainer tell you what you need to know. 2) Visual learning. There are lots of pictures, charts and graphs to help you understand the material. 3) Learn on YOUR time. The course is available 24 hours a day, so you learn when you are ready. 4) Problem solving. We give you math problems and help you solve them. So you get to see how the work inside and out-no guess work. 5) Quizzes. At the end of each section you get a short quiz to test your retention. 6) Forward and Rewind. You can move forwards and backwards in the material so you can review and learn. 7) Greater Retention. Because you learn on your time you have better retention. 8) Better results. Because you learn at your pace and can review the materials over again, you will score better on the exam.

What makes our video training so valuable?

It’s produced by the same people who wrote the training and who verified and formulated the exam. So you are certain that what you are learning is what you need to know. There is no guess work about what information is “necessary” and what is “skipable”.

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Certification is Important

It is your validation to the world that you are trained
and qualified to do energy audits.

Included With Your Training

Unlike other programs where certification is “extra”. With Denby Energy, Certification testing is included with
every program package.

All Online

Our certification test is all online. You login, take your test (timed), and you get instant results. Retest is only $45, but with a 95% passrate you don’t need to worry about that!

You Get The Best

Our comprehensive training programs include certification testing with the National Energy and Sustainability
Institute (NEASI).

Why NEASI?

1) NEASI is a market leader in certification testing for energy efficiency and energy audit training.
2) NEASI is 100% independent and un-biased. It is a stand-alone certification body that is not
run by, affiliated with or controlled by any of its participating members.
3) NEASI supplies certification testing to an industry leading 6 separate energy efficiency
training companies.
4) NEASI has certified people all over the world. Click here to visit www.NEASI.org

Denby Energy Named Platinum Provider for NEASI

Denby Energy was named a Platinum Provider for NEASI for 3 reasons:
1) Denby Energy has provided the largest number of candidates on record.
2) The Pass-Rate for Denby Energy students is over 95%.
3) The market leadership position of Denby Energy in the energy efficiency training field.

Benefits of Certification

Denby graduates enjoy career flexibility that allows them earn a lucrative income while
helping people save money on their energy bills. Here are some of the best parts about the
Certification Program: * Confidence: By taking and passing the Certification test you will quickly learn how much you know and how easy it is to make money saving energy. * Reputation: With the select National Energy and Sustainability Institute Energy Auditor Certification, you will establish a reputation as a true professional. * Professionalism: Anyone can buy training materials. Only those with the professionalism to take their career to the next level will take and pass the Certified Home Energy Exam.

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Commercial Audit Resources

To be successful you need the right resources.

With our exclusive Commercial Energy Audit Resource Kit, you get everything you need to perform and audit and write the audit report.

Get the resources that power the largest Tier 1 Commercial Energy Audit Training in the world.

Audit Checklist

The Step-By-Step checklist is custom designed by Denby Energy for the Commercial Energy Audit Training program and is the perfect resource for doing your audits.

The checklist is fully customizable, so you can sculpt it as your business grows.

Lighting Resources

Lighting is a significant part of every audit and to make certain that you can accurately identify and eliminate wasted energy from lighting, we have several resources devoted to this special area.

Lighting Worksheet Let’s you list and calculate the lighting in a home and to calculate potential savings from suggested changes.

Lighting Quick-Reference This quick-reference chart lets you instantly “ball-park” lighting savings. Also helpful for use with detailed assessments.

Software & Reports

Critical to any Commercial energy audit is the ability to turn the data from the audit into a report you can provide to the business owner so they can see where they are wasting energy and how they can begin saving energy and saving money.

Commercial Energy Report You get our exclusive full Commercial Energy Report template that lets you define energy targets for your homeowner and give them solutions to start saving money now.

Calculation Software Our exclusive software is designed for Commercial Energy Audits, and covers all the major areas of energy use, helping you calculate energy cost and savings for your business owner.

Essentials

We make energy auditing easy. You get fully operable contracts, Conversion Factors, and more. These essential resources are specifically crafted by Denby Energy to make sure you do it right the first time.

Two Energy Audit Contracts 1st Contract is for payment based on the square feet of the building. 2nd Contract, is for payment based on a % of savings.

Conversion Factors Instantly convert: HP to Watts, Watts to BTUs, Therms to BTUs, and so much more.

Audit Tips Critical tips that will help you make your business run smoothly.

Square Foot Calculator Instantly calculate the cost per square foot with this simple excel worksheet.

Uniform Tables Instantly calculate the cost per square foot with this simple excel worksheet.

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Sales and Marketing – Commercial Energy Audits

Nothing is more critical to your business success than marketing.

Sales & Marketing Training-

With your Commercial Energy Audit order, Denby Energy gives you our professional guide to marketing in the energy efficiency business. This detailed manual teaches you the most effective sales and marketing strategies for energy efficiency. Written by us specifically for our Commercial Audit Training.

Marketing Materials

Distinguish you business. Get the Right marketing materials for the right job. Our Commercial marketing materials are written exclusively by us for the commercial market.

2 Different Flyer Templates Fully customizable

Tri-fold Brochure Fully customizable

Sales Letter

The most important tool in the marketing tool box is the sales letter. Get this expertly drafted sales letter specifically designed for the Denby Energy Training programs.

Sales Letter Fully customizable

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Business Start Up

We want you to succeed. And we stack the deck in your favor with our exclusive business start up format. With your training purchase, you get the materials you need for business startup.

Business Group Professionally crafted business set templates – with 3 separate themes you can choose from.

Business Software We give you 3 separate spreadsheet programs that will help you start up and run your new business. Even if you are doing it part-time, you can still use the spreadsheet software to run all your businesses.

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