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The Principles of Home Performance course is designed to help professionals and volunteers working with households to become better equipped to support their clients to achieve a healthy home.

In this one-day course, participants will become aware of the main components of a healthy home and key issues related to energy use in New Zealand homes. Course participants will also learn when and where to refer clients to other services.

Please note, this course is a pre-requisite to the Certified Home Performance Advisor course.

Course outline

The Principles of Home Performance course introduces participants to the following topics targeted to someone in their role:

• Home performance in New Zealand: damp and cold, links to health, Government policy
• Four critical elements for a healthy home: Reducing heating loss, adequate heat, moisture control, and ventilation; and describes some key principles of and common solutions to each
• Energy for a healthy home: household energy use, conservation and efficiency, hardship
• Affording energy for a healthy home: reading energy bills, understanding power bills and retail ‘switching’
• Smart energy use at home: lighting, appliances, hot water
• Other services and where else to get help.

Who should attend this course?

The Principles of Home Performance course is targeted towards to the following two groups of practitioners:

1.  People who work with households on health, social and environmental issues that are related to housing performance, and whose role will be enhanced by greater awareness of the relationship between energy, housing and health.

This might include:

• Social housing providers (including Housing New Zealand staff),
• City council and Local Authority staff involved in housing or environmental health,
• Public health professionals (e.g. nurses, outreach staff),
• Community-based organisations involved in housing, environment and health,
• Iwi-based organisations involved in housing, environment and health,
• Energy retail/lines company call centres,
• Insulation installers and other energy efficiency businesses

2.  People who wish to pursue a career as a Certified Home Performance Advisor and need to attain foundational knowledge and meet the pre-requisites for Certified Home Performance Advisor Training.

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  30-Jun-2020 (Publication )

  Principles of Home Performance registration form (PDF 148KB)

  Registration form for Principles of Home Performance Advisor programme