Launchpad Curriculum

Launchpad CURRICULUM

The Home Efficiency Consulting Curriculum is focused on teaching the Eco Academy students the most cost-effective ways for homeowners to create energy savings and healthier homes. Students learn about the Return on Investment approach and the home as an ‘organism’ vs. as an ‘object’. Students also learn the techniques that can save a homeowner $500 with just an hour of tune-ups that require no tools or expertise at all.

You will learn the fundamentals of how to save money on home utilities, extract the key information from utility bills and spot the savings and efficiency opportunities via room by room walk-throughs. You will also learn how to use data like Home Heating Indexes, Base Load Electric and Water Consumption to guide recommendations that have the best payback. You will also learn over 100 real world tactics from shower heads to solar panels to save homeowners money, and you'll see the hierarchy of the payback!

1) Building Science Basics

• Heat Transfer 101
• Heating Units
• Insulation
• Air Sealing

2) Intro and Situation Analysis

• Primary Utility Factors
• Secondary Utility Factors
• Home Health Factors
• Seasonal Utilities
• Online Tool
• Report

3) Savings Tactics

• The Exterior Review
• The Utility Room
• The Basement/Crawl Space
• The Kitchen
• The Bathroom
• The Whole House
• The Attic
• Remodeling or Renovating
• Additions

Before becoming a Certified Home Efficiency Consultant our trainees have to complete a multi-stage certification process. This process includes the following:

• Sign-up and pay for your class
• Completion of Online Training Course
• Completion of reviewing the Demonstration “Shadowing” Video
• Completion of 5 In-field Practical Home Efficiency Checkup Samples - designed to help our trainees become accustomed to our proprietary reporting tool and the process of reviewing a home’s energy efficiency. Many of the trainees use the homes of their friends, family, and neighbors.
• Completion of References - trainees must receive at least two favorable recommendations from two of the five homeowners that received the sample Home Efficiency Checkup.
• Confirmation of Insurance - all trainees must, at a minimum, secure limited liability insurance
• Pass the Certification Exam - The exam includes fifty multiple choice questions that are randomly pulled from a pool of over two hundred fifty potential questions, resulting in a unique test for each trainee. The test is open book with a 70 minute timed duration.
• Once certified our Certified Home Efficiency Consultants, must maintain their certification by participating in and completing annual certification requirements.