Home Performance with ENERGY STAR®
Homeowners are increasingly concerned about indoor air quality, moisture, and controlling their energy costs. Focus on Energy's Home Performance with ENERGY STAR Program can help to address these issues.
Home Performance with ENERGY STAR works with consultants, contractors, and remodelers to facilitate home improvements that enhance a home's performance while reducing energy usage. Getting involved with Home Performance with ENERGY STAR is simply good business.
Contractors or remodelers that would like to work with Home Performance must work through a consultant. Find a consultant in your area and meet to learn more about the program and referrals.
Becoming a consultant
Consultants partnering with Home Performance with ENERGY STAR help homeowners identify energy saving opportunities, help solve home energy efficiency, comfort, combustion safety and building durability problems through troubleshooting, and make appropriate corrective recommendations. In addition, consultants provide recommendations for working with program contractor allies to facilitate the completion of recommended improvements. Compensation for the consultant is a combination of fee for service paid by the customer and program Cash-Back Rewards for encouraging customers to improve their homes. Consultants are independent contractors.Consultants are required to have:
- A strong building science background, including:
- Knowledge of how heat, moisture, and air flows within buildings
- Knowledge of general building materials, terms, and practices
- Diagnostic and troubleshooting skills related to home heating, cooling, and air quality problems
- Two (2) years previous work experience in home inspection, performance testing of homes, residential construction, or a related field
- Mathematical, analytical, calculation, and drawing skills
- Entrepreneurial and small business management skills or experience
- Strong verbal communication skills
- A demonstrated ability to provide quality customer service
- A working and reliable home computer with internet and e-mail access, and basic software skills
- Access to reliable transportation
- A minimum availability of 5-10 hours/week to provide services
- Proof of Liability Insurance Coverage
Candidates must complete a pre-evaluation and background information survey in order to be considered. Trainings are offered approximately twice per year, with limited enrollment. The training costs $1500 and is two weeks in length.
If you have additional questions; would like application materials; or are already certified by RESNET or certified as a building analyst through BPI; and would like to find out how to partner with Focus on Energy, please contact our Information Center at 800.762.7077.