LIUNA Training Enters Strategic Partnership

LIUNA Training & Education Fund is pleased to announce that its Administrator, Bernadette Rivera has been selected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Building Performance Institute’s (BPI). Ms. Rivera was unanimously elected to sit on the board during its May 25, 2010 meeting in New York City.

BPI shares LIUNA Training’s belief in the need for a comprehensively trained, highly skilled and professionalized residential energy efficiency retrofit and weatherization workforce. Both organizations work to achieve this goal through the development of technical standards for home performance and weatherization retrofit work, professional credentialing for individuals and contractor accreditations.

“We are excited about this opportunity to support and also enhance, BPI’s existing programs and services” said John LeConche, LIUNA Training Executive Director. As the leading education and training organization for residential home performance and energy efficiency retrofit, LIUNA Training brings to the BPI board over 40 years of expertise in skills training and certification, curriculum development, instructor qualification and quality assurance. The Fund also has a strong understand of the overall landscape of the construction industry and the challenges workers and contractors face, this will help LIUNA Training to assist BPI in the mutual goal of raising the bar in home performance contracting.

LIUNA Training and BPI will continue to work together over the next few months to formalize their partnership and to achieve harmonization of certification standards and requirements of energy efficiency professionals.

LIUNA Training’s Administrator Bernadette Rivera (second from left seated) with the BPI Board of Directors immediately following her election to the Board.