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Skilled Trades   

Skilled Trades are the hands-on professions that build and maintain our world—from electrical and plumbing to carpentry, welding, HVAC, and heavy equipment operation. With diverse paths like electrician, plumber, machinist, or automotive technician, there’s a perfect fit for every interest and strength.

As infrastructure, manufacturing, housing, and green energy projects grow, demand for skilled tradespeople stays high—offering strong pay, job security, and the daily reward of seeing your work stand tall.

  • Careers in Building Science
  • Fee: $5.00
    Modality: Online
    This course explores the varying careers that exist within the building science industry. Typical careers involve protecting the longevity and safety of buildings and the people who inhabit them. Content in this course will outline entry level and career advancement pathways within this career field as well as the transferrable skills developed throughout this field.
 

  • Healthy Housing Principles
  • Fee: $50.00
    Modality: Online
    This course is a preparation course for the Building Principles Institute (BPI) Healthy Homes Certificate. The content will describe how a healthy home is dry, clean, safe, ventilated, free of pests and contaminants, well maintained, and thermally comfortable.
 

  • Building Science Principles
  • Fee: $50.00
    Modality: Online
    This course is a preparation course for the Building Principles Institute (BPI) Building Science Principles Certificate. The content will describe how home components interact to affect the home’s overall performance and energy efficiency.
 

  • Safety in the Trades
  • Fee: $50.00
    Modality: Online
    This course covers the basic concepts of workplace hazards and the need for continuing education with regard to safety. Topics such as confined space training, proper safety equipment, lock out/tag out, and fall prevention will be covered.
 

  • Introduction to Engineering
  • Fee: $100.00
    Modality: Online
    This course introduces the education and skills required in a variety of engineering disciplines. The particular engineering disciplines examined are: Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Computer Science. For each discipline the course will examine certification requirements, program of study, types of work and tasks in each discipline and compensation ranges.
 

  • Building Energy Codes
  • Fee: $50.00
    Modality: Online
    This course describes the history of building energy codes as well as the how to apply energy codes within the building science industry. How the energy building codes were developed, evolved, and enforced are covered within the curriculum.
 

  • Introduction to Energy Technologies
  • Fee: $300.00
    Modality: Online
    Introduces the energy technologies in use today and those that are in the research stage as possible alternatives. This course presents technologies including active solar heating, passive solar heating, wind energy systems, biomass, photovoltaics, co-generation, low and high head hydro, hydrogen, geothermal, power towers and energy storage systems.
 

         

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