Building Performance Training
Build your business and energize your career!
Building Performance Training is a workforce development program for current and prospective building professionals in design, construction, real estate, and beyond. Training is focused on energy efficiency, high performance building and electrification. Our free training events help you keep up with industry trends, gain new skills, fulfill continuing education units, earn certifications, and add value for your customers.
High Performance Fundamentals Certification
Earn a 3C-REN Certification upon completing 3C-REN’s High-Performance Fundamentals Series. This series is designed for new, aspiring, and current building professionals to understand the basics of building science.
In each training, expert instructors will focus on industry best practices and new building technologies that are better for owners, better for the environment, and better for your work as building professionals.
Class 1:
High Performance Buildings and Careers
Class 2:
The Role of Building Science in High Performance Buildings
Class 3:
Enclosure Best Practices: Roofs, Walls and Floors
Class 4:
Heat Pump Fundamentals: Space Conditioning & Water Heating
Class 5:
Water Heating Distribution Best Practices
Class 6:
Home Assessments for Decarbonization
Earn While You Learn: Heat Pump Water Heater Installations
3C-REN has partnered with Sunwork Renewable Energy Projects to bring hands-on heat pump water heater (HPWH) installation training to our region.
Earn up to $599 while working alongside a skilled contractor to install a heat pump water heater.
- Participants in this initiative:
- Receive hands-on training, installing a heat pump water heater
- Learn about the equipment, sizing, siting, and installation best practices
- Distinguish plumbing and electrical differences between HPWHs and traditional gas equipment.
This partnership prioritizes workforce development for decarbonization on the Central Coast. Contractor experience installing HPWHs is limited despite their many benefits. A HPWH significantly reduces a home’s carbon footprint and can be cheaper to operate. The technology is simple and efficient: heat from the air is applied to the water in the tank, making them up to 4x more efficient than conventional gas water heaters. This initiative aims to build local contractor expertise through hands-on learning.
Get started! Fill out the interest form to be notified when an installation is scheduled in your area.
Education for the Future Workforce
Bring a free guest speaker to your classroom to help younger generations explore opportunities in sustainable design and construction. 3C-REN speakers are professionals with backgrounds in green building who cover topics such as:
- Green Building 101
- Pathways for Sustainability Careers
- Green Building in Practice
- Introduction to Zero Net Carbon Design
- Fuel Switching: HVAC and Domestic Hot Water
Training Calendar
3C-REN Contractor Connection Hub at USA Air
USA Air Oxnard 550 Del Norte Blvd, Oxnard, CA, United StatesRegister Event Description Join 3C-REN on April 30th at USA Air in Oxnard for an exciting opportunity to connect and grow! The 3C-REN team will be on-site to share workforce […]
Building for the Future: Preparing for the 2025 Energy Code
Register Event Description The California Energy Commission has adopted the 2025 Building Energy Efficiency Standards, effective on January 1, 2026. This virtual Regional Forum offers an opportunity to delve into […]
Practical Ways to Address Embodied Carbon
Register Event Description Embodied Carbon, the term that identifies the collective impacts of extracting, manufacturing and transporting building materials, is appearing on everything from requests for proposals to the next […]
AES Program Launch Webinar
Register Join the Tri-County Regional Energy Network (3C-REN) for the official launch of the Agriculture Energy Solutions (AES) program—a free technical assistance program designed specifically for farmers and agricultural producers […]
Electrification Products for the Central Coast Climate
Register Event Description Homeowners around the world are beginning to embrace electrification (the switch from gas-fired to electric-powered appliances). In this webinar, EMH will introduce and provide an overview of […]
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About EV’s * (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
Register Event Description Taught by Robert Fortunato and Nick Brown EV early adopters who have owned 9 EV’s in the last 14 years. They test drove most others on the […]
National Association of REALTORS Green Designation | San Luis Obispo County
Pismo Beach Coastal Association of Realtors 1126 E Grand Ave, Arroyo Grande, CA, United StatesRegister Event Description NAR Green Day 1: The Resource-Efficient Home - Retrofits, Remodels, Renovations, and New Home Construction Monday, May 12 | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm The session looks […]
Continuing Education and Certifications
Most 3C-REN trainings offer continuing education learning units and/or certifications, such as:
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