Healthy Indoors Magazine
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34 | HEALTHY INDOORS SHOW — December 2018 I n the December installment, HI's Bob Krell chats with The Building Performance Institute's (BPI) CEO, Larry Zarker, at the IAQ & Energy 2018 Conference about his organization's focus on Healthy Homes, as well as other related topics. The Building Performance Institute, Inc. (BPI) was found- ed in 1993. BPI has become the nation's premier standards development and credentialing organization for residential energy auditing and upgrade work. BPI has over 20 years of experience helping agencies and program sponsors build, deploy, and expand successful energy efficiency retrofit and weatherization assistance programs. We are helping build an industry and create a workforce through professional certification, company credentials, home energy rating sys- tems, and quality assurance services. The Healthy Home Evaluator (HHE) certification builds on the BPI Building Analyst (BA), Multifamily Building Ana- lyst, Energy Auditor (EA), or Quality Control Inspector (QCI) certifications. The HHE was developed in partnership with the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI). A Healthy Home Evaluator assesses home-based environmental health and safety hazards and provides a prioritized list of recommendations to address those hazards. Larry Zarker is CEO of the Building Performance Institute, the professional standards setting and credentialing organi- zation for the home performance contracting industry. BPI now has a broad footprint of over 40,000 certifications in all 50 states and six foreign countries. Mr. Zarker oversaw BPI's process of gaining accreditation by ANSI as a stan- dards development organization and its accreditation by ANSI under ISO 17024 for its personnel certifications. He was responsible for the national expansion of the network of BPI Test Centers from six in 2006 to over 200 today and oversaw the growth of professional certifications from ap- proximately 150 in 2005 to over 14,000 in 2011 with a total certification population of over 30,000 professionals today. He also oversees the building out a national network of con- tracting companies who are accredited by BPI and submit to independent, third-party quality assurance on the work they perform for customers. The Building Performance Institute's Healthy Homes Initiative i https://vimeo.com/306963098