Retrofitting with House-as-a-System Approach · Best Practices in Building Systems

Title: Retrofitting with House-as-a-System Approach
Abstract: This course is an introduction to retrofitting with a whole-home, or house-as-a-system, approach to both create better homes for your clients and to grow your business. You will learn how a house operates as a system, how to identify common home issues with energy retrofit solutions, and how to avoid creating new issues. The course also covers how to explain the home- and life-improving benefits of your products and services and how to create your own reciprocal referral network that can support your clients to complete whole home retrofits and bring in more business for your company. This course focuses on practical examples and scenarios providing participants with takeaways they can immediately put into practice.
Contributor: The Home Performance Stakeholder Council (HPSC)
Date Submitted: 2026/03/27
Format: PDF
Extent: 83 pages; 6 units
Language: en-CA
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) License
Is Part Of: Building Forms and Structures; Energy and Thermal Systems; Building Exteriors and Grounds; Technical system threads
Description: 6 units combined to make a 3.5 hour online course. These are the PDFs for each unit.
Identifier: 43

Media: 1.0 Introduction to the course; 2.0 Introduction to House as a System; 3.0 Identifying House Issues, Avoiding Creating Them, and Finding Solutions; 4.0 Benefits and Opportunities of a Whole-Home Retrofit Approach; 5.0 Creating a Referral Network; 6.0 Conclusion