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WUFI Passive Single Family Training (Phius)
Two 4-Hour Sessions on February 6th and 7th from 12:00 – 4:00pm
One 2-Hour Session on February 11th from 12:00 – 2:00pm
About the Class
WUFI Passive is a powerful tool that can enhance, streamline, and optimize the design and certification of passive building projects if integrated into the design process properly. This course is both for those learning WUFI Passive for the first time and those who learned WUFI Passive during the Phius Certified Consultant (CPHC) training but have not had a chance to apply the tool yet. Students will model a single family home from start to finish, learn the typical modeling workflow, and complete an individual design exercise with instructor guidance and critique.
The registration deadline for this training is January 16th. BE+ recommends registering at least 2 months in advance as seats in this course may fill quickly.
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.
Learning Objectives
1. Understand how to input data into WUFI Passive in its static mode to model a building from start to finish.
2. Learn to produce outputs and whole building modeling results necessary for Phius certification compliance.
3. Identify the fundamental modeling workflow for Phius project certification.
4. Interpret modeling results in WUFI Passive static mode.
5. Apply the skills learned to an individual design excercise.
Technology Requirements
WUFI Passive requires Windows OS. If you use a Mac, you must have a working copy of Windows installed. Mac users need to purchase and install VMWare Fusion, Bootcamp, or Parallels, along with a Windows operating system. VMWare Fusion is recommended.
Funding Grants Available: Submit by January 16th, 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-9666
Course Provider: Built Environment Plus
Course Cost: $450
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.
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