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Phius Certified Verifier Training

Name: Phius Certified Verifier Training
Start: 2025-01-22T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-22T23:59:59-05:00
Location: New Ecology

January 22, 2025

January 22nd and 23rd | Two Full Day Sessions
8:00 am – 5:00pm, In person in Boston (location information below)

About the Class

Phius Certified Verifiers deliver on-site quality assurance for multi-family residential and non-residential passive building projects. This course is geared toward HERs Raters testing and commissioning multifamily buildings and professionals familiar with non-residential buildings. Training provides grounding in Phius building principles and onsite quality assurance for the Phius Certification program. Knowledge of HERs rating practices, Energy Star Homes, Indoor airPLUS and DOE ZERH Programs is helpful. Those who wish to pursue certification after training must meet certification exam prerequisites and be approved to complete the exam. This training is delivered in person over two days and is a combination of presentation and discussion.

Express Grant Eligibility
Employers with 100 or fewer Massachusetts employees are eligible to receive Express Program grants. In order to be eligible for Express Program grant reimbursement, an Express Program grant application must be submitted no fewer than 21 days before the live-session start date, and you must register for the course through BE+, not Phius.

About Phius

Phius (Passive House Institute US) trains and certifies professionals, maintains the Phius climate-specific passive building standard, certifies and quality assures passive buildings, certifies high-performance building products and conducts research to advance high-performance building.

Location Details

New Ecology
294 Washington St., Suite 830
Boston, MA 02108

When attendees arrive, take the elevator to the 8th floor. Upon exiting the elevator, the entrance is to the left. The door will be locked prior to the course starting.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify Phius design strategies

2. Identify Phius mechanical/ventilation systems

3. Perform on-site QA and integration of prerequisite programs; Energy Star Homes, Indoor airPLUS and DOE ZERH

4. Perform site inspection and testing protocols and Phius Certification deliverables

Funding Grants Available: Submit by January 1st, 2025

The Express Grant is designed to help businesses respond quickly to emerging needs and keep employees engaged. With bite-size grants for just-in-time training and no waiting periods between grants, the Express program is the Workforce Training Fund’s fastest path to funding.

You could take this training at 50% cost or for FREE. Complete an Express Grant Application.

Course ID#: C-3896
Course provider: Built Environment Plus
Course cost: $750.00

Express Grant Eligibility
Employers with 50 or fewer Massachusetts, W-2 employees are eligible to receive 100% reimbursement of approved training costs via Express Grants. Employers with 51 to 100 MA, W-2 employees are eligible to receive 50% reimbursement of approved training costs via Express Grants.

Express Program grant applications must be submitted no fewer than 21 days before the training date.

The contracting period of approved Express Grants begins 21 days after the grant application date and ends one year from this date. All training must be completed within the contract period to be eligible for reimbursement.