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BPI Total Building Performance (TBP) Certificate Resource
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Learn what a Total Building Performance certificate can offer you and your business.
Recognizing the critical need for a retrofit-ready workforce, [org name] and partners have developed the Building Performance Institute (BPI) Total Building Performance (TBP) Certificate, available now. The Certificate is the only one of its kind, designed to prepare individuals with the holistic knowledge to plan, assist, and guide residential deep energy retrofit projects to reduce energy consumption by 50% or more. Deep energy retrofits address all major energy loads in the home: space conditioning; hot water; lighting; solar energy installation, and appliances and plug loads. They may also address on-site power generation and electrical/thermal storage and prepare the electrical system to support electric vehicles.
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