Building Performance Training
- Live Training
Free events with expert instructors offering continuing education and certifications
- On-Demand Trainings
Miss a live training? Watch recordings of past events on your own schedule
- Weekly Event Updates
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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 6:
Speaker Series
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
All-Electric Retrofits With Electrical Panel Constraints
Register Event Description The building industry will need to electrify buildings at a fast pace if cities and counties are to meet their goals for reducing Carbon emissions. One of […]
Certified Passive House Designer/Consultant (CPHD) Pacific Fall Hybrid Cohort
Apply Here 3C-REN is pleased to offer The Passive House Network's (PHN's) Certified Passive House Designer/ Consultant hybrid cohort. This training is available at no cost to residents and those […]
ZNCD: All-Electric Design & Construction Series – Day 1
RRM Design Group Training Room 3765 S Higuera St # 102, San Luis Obispo, CaliforniaRegister This is an in-person course, provided in partnership with the AIA California Central Coast Chapter. 8:30 AM - 11:00 AM Doors open at 8:00 AM for coffee, snacks and […]
A Builder’s Perspective on Zero Net Energy
Register For the contractors and trades involved in residential and small commercial projects, Zero Net Energy (ZNE), or near-ZNE, is on the rise, to meet the energy code as well […]
Building the Future: Electrification Strategies for Electricians
Zoom link provided upon registrationRegister Electrification is taking form in California - over 70 municipalities have policies phasing out gas appliances and the state aims to have 6 million heat pumps installed by 2030. […]
Zero Emissions Multifamily Passive
Register Event Description This course is an in-depth look at basic strategies for delivering successful all-electric decarbonized Passive House apartment buildings that teams want to build, and families want to […]
Solar PV: Technology and Valuation
Register Appraisers and Realtors will advance their credibility and competency to better serve their clients with solar-powered homes. Newly constructed homes have been required to have solar as of 2020 […]
