Building Trade Professionals: Build Trust, Improve Your Bottom Line, and Be Able to Speak to Consumers in everyday language
If you advise homeowners, but don’t need the hands-on technical skills required of
BPI Certified Professionals at this time, the BSP is for you.
The knowledge you’ll acquire when earning this certificate will allow you to educate your customers about potential building performance problems, and help you to know when to call in an expert BPI Certified Building Analyst or Envelope Professional to conduct diagnostic testing.
- Energy-related product manufacturers and their distributors and sales reps
- Remodelers
- Insulation/ HVAC/ window sales reps and installers
- Solar, geothermal heat pump and other renewable energy system sales reps and installers
- Non-hands-on employees of home performance contractors, including sales reps and administrative personnel
Are you a home inspector who needs to identify potential building performance problems in homes? Are you an appraiser or financial officer who needs to value green features of a home? Perhaps you’re a realtor who wants to be able to find, understand, and market homes with sustainable features. The BSP is for you.
- Home inspectors
- Appraisers
- Realtors
- Mortgage and energy efficiency financing officers
Whether you’re a state regulator, a government or utility program manager, or a contract administrator, you need to understand the building science behind the policies you promote. Make more informed decisions and reduce your program’s risk when you know how the house works as a system.
- Federal, state and local government energy office and call center personnel
- Managers of state, local or utility home energy efficiency incentive programs
- Contract administrators of incentive programs
- Government regulators of incentive programs
BPI Certified Professionals can earn six (6) BPI CEU credits by passing the BSP exam and uploading their BSP Certificate of Knowledge through BPI's CEU Account.