Building Envelope Assessment Training

Participants in this class will learn how to assess commercial building envelopes for energy saving opportunities and improved comfort. Note that this two-day training is an expanded and more interactive version of the one-day building envelope training we offered last March (in person) and June (online), with the addition of new exercises to practice applying what you are learning, as well as more content on how to present envelope upgrades to customers.

Tentative Agenda:

• Envelope Case Studies
• Identification of building envelope opportunities
• Approach to an Envelope Audit
• Practice – Assess the building we are in
• Typical Opportunities
• Practice – Reassign Envelope Case Studies
• Obstacles and potential risks to a retrofit
• Energy modeling
• Advanced envelope audit
• Practice – interpreting what we find
• Selling envelope upgrades

Instructor:

Jon Haehnel, CEI, BPI- BA-T BA-P, CABS, Associate Vice President and Director of Building Envelope Services, Salas O’Brien

Jon has been testing and inspecting buildings for over 22 years. His expertise in building envelope commissioning and design focuses primarily on institutional and commercial buildings, both new construction and renovation. Jon has commissioned the building envelope on all types of construction: laboratories, clean rooms, indoor pools, hospitals, military facilities, manufacturing, dormitories, high rise construction, and educational buildings. His experience also includes building envelope forensics.

Jon is coauthor of “Setting Airtightness Standards” (ASHRAE Journal, Sept. 2005) and has presented on building envelope topics for the Better Buildings by Design Conference, Building Commissioning Association (BECxA), Construction Standards Institute (CSI), American Institute of Architects (AIA), and the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC). Jon formerly taught commercial energy auditing and blower door testing at Vermont Technical College.