Illinois Weatherization

 “The Main Thing is Keeping the Main Thing, the Main Thing!!!”  The Main Thing is Quality  You Gotta Get it Right EVERY TIME!!!  How Do You Do This???????

 Work Standards  Training, Training, Training  Target the Energy Audit/Assessment  Make the Crew /Contractor Accountable  Final Inspections/Quality Assurance  Compliance Monitoring

 We Developed Standards About 15 Years Ago  You Get What You INSPECT…Not What You EXPECT!  Things Started to Change/Improve When We Finally Started to Tie Our Compliance Monitoring to the Standards.  Cite Your Standards, Reference Your Standards…

 We operate our own Weatherization Training and Certification Program (TCP)  Used to be 7-Week Training  Run through the University of Illinois (U of I)  Now 10-Weeks of Courses and Fieldwork  Focused on Assessment with More “Hands On” Activity and Testing  Includes a Mid-Term Assessment Exercise.

 Basic Weatherization  Heat Transfer  Building Fundamentals  Diagnostics  Infra-Red/Basic Arch. Energy Audit  Basic HVAC  Advanced HVAC  HVAC Air Flow/Air Conditioning/Heat Pumps  Health and Safety/Lead Safe Work  Field Energy Audit/Proficiency Exam  State Staff Energy Audit Review

II Think We Miss the Boat When We Hang Our Hat on the Final Inspection/Quality Assurance Monitoring WWhy Do We Do What We Do??????? WWe Are Going Back to the Basics TTie Your Monitoring to the Energy Audit Before the Work is Done YYou Get to See What Should Have Been Done, Instead What Happened After the Fact. WWe Will Tie These Observations to Training Needed.

 ID Them in Your Reports  If Work is Poor, Target Them in Your Next Monitoring Visits  Disallow Costs  Follow Up

 Where Do We Go From Here??  Third Party Inspections?  What We Do…  How Do You Instill a Sense of Pride and Responsibility?

 You Get What You Inspect…Not What You Expect  What is Your Current Monitoring Percent?  Can You Expand It??  Electronic Systems/Desk Audits…Target Your Compliance Monitoring.