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BPI Field Exam - What To Know In The House

  1. Recommend CFLs or LED lighting.
  2. Check flow rates (turn the bathroom faucets on) and recommend low flow aerators.
  3. Check year of small appliances like refrigerator, dishwasher and dryer and recommend refrigerator replacement if older than 2000.
  4. Mention renewable energy as a means to offset and produce energy usage.
  5. Identify fire hazards or paints, cleaners, lead paint, and other VOCs chemicals.
  6. Identify IAQ problems like exposed fiberglass.
  7. Checked for moisture problems and made appropriate recommendations.
  8. Review utility bill and identified baseload and seasonal usage.
  9. Inspected windows and doors for fit and performance (dual or single pane, low-e coating).
  10. Identify potential air barriers from inside the home (any soffit, archway or change in ceiling height).
  11. Mention one or several of the methods of airflow measurement at exhaust fans.  
  • Using a blowometer set to the size of the ducting and register.
  • The garage bag method takes a known volume (5 gallon trash bag), fills it with air and times how long it takes to evacuate the bag of air in seconds. Then divide volume / time to get your flow rate.
  • Using an anemeter in front of a registers gives the revolutions per second, then find your area of the register boot. Multiply the area of the register boot by the revolutions per second for your flow rate

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The main topics of the BPI BA exam are listed out below.  Click on a link that interests you, or you need some brushing up on to learn more on each subject.

1. Building Science Fundamentals
1a. Basic terms and definitions
1b. Principals of energy, air & moisture
1c. Combustion science

2. Buildings and Their Systems
2a. Building components
2b. Conservation strategies
2c. Comprehensive building assessment process
2d. Design considerations

3. Measurement and Verification of Building Performance
3a. Applied diagnostics and troubleshooting

4. BPI National Standards and Project Specifications
4a. Comprehensive building assessment

5. Analyzing Buildings Systems
5a. Comprehensive building assessment
5b. Appliances and lighting

6. Conduct and communications
6a. Conservation strategies