ONLINE Healthy Housing Principles (E084)

IMPORTANT: The BPI Healthy Housing Principles online exam will NOT be offered at BPC after this course. If interested, please visit BPI.org to register for and complete the exam.

CEUs: 13

Course Description:

This Healthy Housing Principles course is a 1.5-day (10 hours of instruction) training designed to introduce and reinforce the principles of a healthy home including the “Keep It…” principles. Students will participate in online instruction based on the Building Performance Institute’s Healthy Housing Principles Reference Guide.

Resources:

• BPI Healthy Housing Principles Guide
• NREL Standard Work Specifications

Course Content & Objectives:

• Describe the importance of a clean home and strategies to keep it clean
• Identify and explain moisture impacts and access points and simple steps to control moisture
• Identify and describe pests and ways to control pest activity including IPM
• Identify contaminants and their access points including strategies to control
• Describe home safety concerns and resources to prevent them
• Explain health impacts of air quality and the use of ventilation to remediate
• Explain thermal control and the health effects of uncontrolled heating and cooling
• Describe the effects of irregular or regular maintenance, areas and steps to maintain a home

Course Requirements:

• Technology
  • Access to Zoom for course instruction
  • Ability to download documents or access documents as needed

  • BPC provided online Learning Management System – Moodle link to be sent by BPC

• Expectation of attendance and class participation

Prerequisites and Work Experience:

• None necessary

Assessments and Grading:

• All assessments will be multiple choice question style
  • In-progress assessment activities throughout

  • One final assessment

• Candidate must achieve a 70% or higher to pass the final assessment

Agenda:

Day One

8:30AM – 12:00PM – breaks included

• Overview of Training
• What is a Healthy Home?
• Keep it Clean
• Keep it Dry

12:00PM – 1:00PM    Lunch On your own

1:00PM – 4:00PM – breaks included

• Keep it Dry cont’d
• Keep it Pest Free
• Keep it Contaminant Free
• BREAK
• Keep it Contaminant Free cont’d
• Keep it Safe     

Day Two

8:30AM – 12:00PM – breaks included

Discussion /  Evaluations     

Keep it Ventilated

Keep it Comfortable 

Keep it Maintained

Washington State Healthy Homes Program