Featured Courses

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Residential Enclosure Retrofits: A Hands-On Experience

This new training course specifically focuses on the limitations and challenges contractors face when undertaking enclosure retrofits on existing homes. Contrary to new builds, retrofits come with many challenges from unknowns, including as-built products and materials, occupied conditions, phasing limitations, and existing structural configurations. These challenges must be met with creativity, adaptation, and a strong knowledge of best-practice retrofit solutions.

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Residential Enclosure Retrofits: A Hands-On Experience

This new training course specifically focuses on the limitations and challenges contractors face when undertaking enclosure retrofits on existing homes. Contrary to new builds, retrofits come with many challenges from unknowns, including as-built products and materials, occupied conditions, phasing limitations, and existing structural configurations. These challenges must be met with creativity, adaptation, and a strong knowledge of best-practice retrofit solutions.

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Online

Warranty Defects: Causes and Solutions

Learn the most common construction defects based on actual housing projects.
This half-day course will explain how defects are recognized, typical causes, and offer solutions and prevention strategies to help builders reduce future callbacks.

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Online

Marketing & Project Sales

This session covers the process to design an effective sales and marketing strategy to better promote your business, earn referrals and sell new projects.

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eLearning Courses

Interactive and engaging, find a variety of online courses to upgrade your skillset or learn new ones at your own pace. Enroll today.

eLearning
Online

BC Energy Step Code Training – Module 5: Airtightness (2023)

Module 5 of the BC Step Code Training Course is designed to help you consider the impact of the BC Energy Step Code on air barriers, including identifying appropriate air barrier solutions, and understanding correct design and installation practices to manage the planning, installation, and testing of performance.

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eLearning
Online

BC Energy Step Code Training – Module 8: Project Management (2023)

Module 8 of the BC Step Code Training Course is designed to help the learner recognize the design and construction factors that contribute to the success of a building project in meeting BCESC requirements, staying on budget and on schedule, and maintaining working relationships, as well as integrating broad project management and QA/QC tools to lower the risk of missing project goals.

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eLearning
Online

Meeting the BC Energy Step Code by Design

This course provides an overview of how architectural and mechanical design choices can have a significant impact on building performance compliance as well as the overall cost to meet the BC Energy Step Code.

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eLearning
Online

Building Science – Air, Heat, Moisture Flows, and Barriers (2023)

This 5-module course is designed to provide you with an understanding of the purpose of air, vapour, and weather barriers. In this course we review the differences between components, what the functions and benefits are, and best practices for installation to increase the durability of a home and reduce warranty call backs.

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eLearning
Online

Renovation Fundamentals

The goal of this course is to provide renovators like you with an introduction to the basic knowledge needed to perform your job as a business owner or manager.

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Online Recordings

View a collection of online recordings for past seminars & webinars (converted into an online format).

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Online Recording

Builders Liens and Holdbacks 101

This course will provide information on British Columbia’s Builders Lien Act and how it applies to various industry stakeholders, including Owners, General Contractors, Subcontractors, and Suppliers.

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Call for Speakers

Do you have expert knowledge and skills in the residential construction industry that relates to BC Housing’s core competencies? CHBA BC is actively seeking experienced speakers to present on a range of topics.