ASHRAE certification program adds new building decarbonization related job tasks to exams
ASHRAE recently approved Job Task Analyses for the Building Energy Modeling Professional (BEMP) and High Performance Building Design Professional (HBDP) certification exams to support building decarbonization efforts. The new and updated job tasks resulted from a job task analysis study, which included an industry-wide survey in which respondents were asked to rate how important and frequently the job tasks are performed.
The HBDP exam outline will include the addition of a subdomain entitled “Carbon Emissions Compliance,” along with several carbon emissions-related updates to existing job tasks. The BEMP exam outline will include a new “Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Analyses” subdomain. There will be a redistribution of exam questions across both programs.