Building Performance Training

Name: Santa Maria Electrification Incentive Breakfast for Contractors
Start: 2024-12-11T07:30:00+00:00
End: 2024-12-11T09:00:00+00:00
Location: Minami Community Center

Free events with expert instructors offering continuing education and certifications

Miss a live training? Watch recordings of past events on your own schedule

Receive a quick, weekly reminder of all upcoming 3C-REN events

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.

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: