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Free COVID-Relevant Webinars: Credentialing Healthcare Construction Workers for Public Protection
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, infection control is on everyone’s mind. This serious threat to humanity underscores the importance of the ANSI-accredited, Pre-construction Risk Assessment/Infection Control Risk Assessment (PCRA/ICRA) Certificate Program as an essential training and credential for all healthcare construction personnel. To provide further information about the PCRA/ICRA Certificate Program, two USGBC Chapters are hosting free …
View your Dashboard: Showcase your Public Profile & Manage your Credentials
Your Dashboard: If you register through the Green Advantage website for a GA credential, if you currently hold a GA credential or if you are a former GA credential holder, you now have a dashboard! Your password-protected dashboard includes the following user-friendly features: Profile Info: If you are a current credential holder, your public profile …
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Disaster Recovery Construction Specialist Certification Initiative – An Idea Whose Time Has Come
The recent storms that ravaged islands in the Caribbean and a number of southern states and the wildfires that devastated large areas of California will require many thousands of construction workers to labor years in the recovery effort. These catastrophic events underscore the high priority that is needed to ensure construction personnel are equipped to …
Updated Study Guides Ensure State-of-the-Art Builder Competencies
For more than a year, the 21 members of the International Green Builder Certification Board have diligently labored to update the international standards upon which both the Green Advantage Certified Practitioner (GACP) and the Green Advantage Certified Associate (GACA) exams are based. All GACP and GACA exams now require familiarity with their respective, updated Study Guide.
The updated Study Guides contain valuable approaches, methods, and best practices that will help prepare construction personnel to bring greater value to any commercial or residential construction project – green or conventional.
As in the past, the competencies presented in the Study Guides are applicable across trades, results-oriented and compatible with multiple green building rating systems, standards and code. Some of the areas emphasized in the updates are:
Health and Safety issues that are particular to green building…
GSA to Launch Pilot to Require Use of GACPs on Projects
GSA Recognition of GACP Certification. The General Services Administration (GSA) is searching for a project or projects to use in a pilot to determine the effectiveness of the ANSI/ISO/IEC 17024 accredited Green Advantage Certified Practitioner (GACP) on GSA projects. In order to launch this initiative, the notification to bidders has to be properly timed. Although …
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Great News for Veterans!
Green Advantage Credentials Approved for GI Bill® Reimbursement Eligible Veterans can open new doors to employment in the construction industry by becoming credentialed as a Green Advantage Certified Practitioner (GACP), Green Advantage Certified Associate (GACA) or earning the Pre-construction Risk Assessment/Infection Control Risk Assessment (PCRA/ICRA) Certificate. Reimbursement for the three credentialing exams has been approved …
Curtainwall Installer Certification Pilot Underway in US and Canada
Three Examinations Required: GACP or GACA + Curtainwall Specific Written Exam + Curtainwall Specific Performance Exam. “Grounded in green” with the GACP or GACA Certification requirement, the Curtainwall Installer Certification for the US and Canada under development by Green Advantage requires passage of a written and performance exam specifically designed to test knowledge, skills and …
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Important New Year Message from the Chair of the Board
Dear Colleague, As 2016 dawns, the case for high performance, healthy buildings has never been more compelling. The urgency we saw at COP21 meetings in Paris, the Pope’s 2015 Encyclical on the environment and human ecology, the DoD’s National Security Report on climate change, the Lancet Commission’s Report on the “medical emergency” resulting from climate …
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Industry Leaders Spearhead Creation of Disaster Recovery Construction Specialist Certification
Construction industry representatives during a three-day forum developed the scope, parameters and provisions for a Disaster Recovery Construction Specialist certification. Stressing the need for qualified personnel to be involved in rebuilding efforts following a disaster, the forum was convened by Green Advantage, the International Code Council (ICC), and Antioch University New England Center for Academic …