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Blue House Energy Courses that qualify for BC Housing CEUs include:

Building Science Basics : 12 CEUs

Construction Technology : 20 CEUs

Envelope Fundamentals : 16 CEUs

Healthy Indoor Environment : 5 CEUs

Understanding HVAC : 5 CEUs

In BC, to construct new homes or to carry out building envelope renovations, you must first become a licensed builder. This applies to general contractors, developers and building envelope renovators throughout the province.

All general contractors wishing to renew their licence to build single-family homes and small residential buildings in the province must also take Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training. Please contact BC Housing directly if you have any questions about your license.

Here’s a summary of what you’re required to do for BC Housing Continuing Professional Development:

You need a total of 40 points to maintain or renew your residential builder license.
At least 20 of those points being met through training, the rest can be met through research and other areas of professional development including ‘active practice’ points.
Over 50 per cent of your CPD must be in one or a combination, of the following areas:

Relative enactments (BC Building Code)
Construction management and supervision
Construction technology
Customer service and home warranty insurance

What our customers are saying

If you are planning a house build or renovation, understanding Building Science is important to avoid repetitive heating costs and possible water damage later. Shawna and her team know their stuff.

K.W., General Manager, Halifax, NS
Studies over the last 20 years have shown a worrying energy performance gap – where buildings are consistently found to use more heating energy than designers had predicted and Energy Performance Certificates indicate.

Oliver Drerup, Former Head of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation - International
I am pleased to hear that you will be undertaking a new initiative to further trades training in residential energy efficiency. CMHC supports the building of industry awareness and capacity to deliver more sustainable technologies and practices in the housing sector.

Duncan Hill, P. Eng., Acting Director, Sustainable Housing and Communities Policy and Research Policy, Research and Planning, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Over the last 20+ years I have been speaking to and training thousands of new home builders and renovators across North America.

Gord Cooke, Air Solutions
All I can say is … wow! You have nailed it! I just watched the 5 minute overview of what all your training videos will attempt to accomplish, and am very impressed. I am so proud that I know you both, this is incredibly good.

Gregory A. Pedrick, C.E.M., Project Manager, New York State Energy Efficiency Agency
This training is easy use and in a perfect format.

Dan Drummond, Training Director, Canada Wood China
It is very well centred on the learner's experience. Visually-based rather than text-based delivery make the modules straightforward and non-intimidating. I like the way the expected learning outcomes are clearly presented and the information is clearly applicable to practical work.

Michelle Harding, Professional Builders Institute of BC
This is primo education that goes way beyond training.

Chris Rosemont, BASF