Overview
Canada's commitment to making homes and buildings more energy efficient will continue to grow in coming years to meet national net-zero energy and emissions goals. This has increased opportunities for the residential construction industry to meet current and emerging energy performance standards and building code requirements.
This certificate program will introduce you to residential design and construction principles, methods and technologies for building high-performance homes.
By taking this certificate program, you'll develop leading industry knowledge of:
- building science principles
- metrics for verifying performance
- prevailing rating and verification systems.
This certificate program is ideal for professionals in the residential construction industry, including architects, designers, engineers, site managers and trades. It will build upon your home design and construction knowledge to meet current provincial and national building code energy requirements.
Upon successful completion of this program, you'll be able to:
- explain how building science principles apply to a high-performance home
- explain the benefits of a high-performance building
- integrate high-performance building principles in the design and construction of residential projects
- communicate high-performance principles to a technical and non-technical audience
- evaluate a building (during design or construction) for continuity of control layers.
The five courses that comprise this certificate were developed by SAIT’s Green Building Technologies team within Applied Research and Innovation Services (ARIS), inspired by a generous donation from Alberta Innovates.
Program outline
To earn this certificate, you must complete the five mandatory courses below. Start with CNST 014 Introduction to High Performance Homes, then take the remaining courses as listed. Note prerequisites.
Required courses & electives
How to apply for this certificate
Once you have registered for any course offered in this certificate, you will be automatically eligible to complete the certificate. You will have up to three years to complete this program. You may track your progression by signing in to your Continuing Education student account.
Certifications and professional designations
Upon successful completion of all the required courses in this certificate program, you’ll receive an electronically issued SAIT Certificate of Completion and transcript. For each SAIT Micro-credential earned, you'll also receive a shareable digital badge.
Costs
This program consists of five mandatory courses with varying fees. Please review the individual course pages for this certificate to determine costs and to learn more about additional learning materials, including textbooks.
Financial support
Financial opportunities are available to help pay for your course fees. Learn more about how to reduce your education or training costs with available awards, bursaries, loans and grants, including the Canada Alberta Productivity Grant.
Careers and opportunities
Skills gained in this certificate support a range of roles in the residential construction industry. They help professionals apply high-performance approaches in the design and construction of future-ready homes.
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