The Micro Movement – Filling Big Shoes

To test our thinking, we entered into a pilot with two home-focused occupations in different industry sectors – home energy performance and health. We sat with the Building Performance Institute (BPI) and the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative to pinpoint the intersection of the home performance professional and the healthy housing professional. This resulted in defining the job function of the new ‘Healthy Home Evaluator,’ whose responsibility will be to assess and characterize home-based environmental health and safety hazards, and to communicate those risks and hazards to the occupant with the goal of improving health and quality of life.

Read more on Interstate Renewable Energy Council’s blog.