{"id":254474,"date":"2017-02-23T11:57:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T11:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=4904ca560d20e4a1ca489191835ad9f0"},"modified":"2017-02-23T11:57:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T11:57:33","slug":"building-enclosure-commissioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/building-enclosure-commissioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Enclosure Commissioning"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    What I learned from a University of Wisconsin course called &ldquo;Commissioning Building Enclosure Assemblies and Systems&rdquo;        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/building-enclosure-commissioning\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/Yost%20-%20Madison%20building%202.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Photo of the Pyle center in Madison\" width=\"144\" height=\"176\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/building-enclosure-commissioning\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/Yost%204.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Photo of Fiona Aldous\" width=\"144\" height=\"161\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/building-enclosure-commissioning\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/IMG_2271-800.JPG\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"144\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I have been advising architects and builders on high-performance design, materials, and construction &mdash; particularly for residential buildings &mdash; for many years. But to do this work on commercial buildings, a building science training and credentialing program seemed really important (yet elusive).<\/p>\n<p>This past November I bit the bullet and spent three days in class, a half day in exams, and several thousand dollars, and fulfilled the requirements for these two certifications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Building Enclosure <span>Commissioning<\/span><span>Process of testing a home after a construction or renovation project to ensure that all of the home&#8217;s systems are operating correctly and at maximum efficiency.\n<p><\/span> Process Provider (BECxP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/building-enclosure-commissioning\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14370,14371,12070,14372,14373,14374],"class_list":["post-254474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-blower-door-test","tag-commercial-building","tag-commisioning","tag-high-rise-building","tag-institutional-building","tag-testing-and-balancing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}