Building Healthier Homes Courses

The EEBA Academy provides a flexible and convenient way for the world's best high performance builders and their partners to come together to learn about building science and advances in sustainably constructing better homes. Learn more about the Academy here.

Log in or create a free account to preview courses and start learning for no or little charge! Explore our EEBA membership for additional discounts on courses, earning designations, and CEUs.

Log in to the EEBA Academy Explore More Categories

Below is a sample of Building Healthier Homes courses available on the EEBA Academy:
* Create a free Talent LMS Account to take courses. Have questions? Reach out to: gabrielle@eeba.org

What Is a High-Performance Home?

This special Team Zero episode explores the current and evolving definitions of high-performance homes, their components, and how they affect global populations. For this episode, we are joined by Ken Johnson, Senior Manager of Performance Construction at Mitsubishi Electric  Trane US and Rich Williams, Vice President of Alliance Green Homes. The discussion tackles the growing topic of the role that Indoor Air Quality plays in the construction and maintenance of high-performance homes. Listeners will learn about the critical green certification programs related to energy efficiency, and how they can move towards creating a high-performance home.

Instructor: Ken Johnson, Rich Williams

Voice of the Builder: DOE Zero Energy Ready Home Builders Share their Secrets for Cost-Effective Hig

Zero Energy Ready Homes can save a bundle for their home owners and they don’t have to break the bank for home builders either. This presentation includes lessons learned from builders across the country who are building award-winning production, custom, affordable, and multi-family homes that achieve remarkably high performance levels, in some cases at little extra cost compared to code construction.

Instructor: Theresa L. Gilbride, Terrence Mosley

A Cost-Effective Path to Healthy, Affordable, Net Zero Housing with DOE’s ZER Program

In this presentation, we’ll show how affordable home builders like United Way of Long Island, along with production, custom, and multifamily builders across the country, are building healthy, durable, energy-efficient homes that are achieving remarkably high performance and low Home Energy Rating System scores – with a program average of HERS 43 without PV and HERS 6 with PV.

Instructor: Terrence Mosley, Rick Wertheim, & Theresa Gilbride

The New Normal - Delivering Healthy Air in Every Home We Build

The Coronavirus pandemic has created a new world; a new way of living, a new way of doing business, and a new way we think about health, safety and the air we breathe. This presentation will walk you through the product categories and applications that exist to create healthier environments in both ordinary times and adjust them during unique situations like we see today.

Instructor: John Bloemer
EEBA Member

EEBA members are part of a community of thought leaders and early adopters from all facets of the home building industry that strive ot help each other build resource efficient, healthy and resilient homes while engaging with the next generation through workforce development. Become a member today and help high performance home building thrive.

Explore Benefits