CBPCA Membership Benefits and Requirements

We have worked hard to offer additional benefits and support for CBPCA's Northern and Southern California members, and are proud to announce a new CBPCA membership structure that delivers these benefits.

The new "CBPCA Professional Membership" category provides enhanced support to members who are serious about building a business in whole-house energy efficiency testing and/or retrofit contracting.   We have listed below the expanded list of benefits that come with Professional Membership.   For those who are not ready to become a Professional Member, we will keep you informed of our activities and hope that you will become a Professional Member in the future.

Please call if you want to become a Professional Member.   For those of you who wish to remain an Associate Member, no action is required.  You will remain on our email distribution list and will continue to receive periodic announcements, newsletters, and updates from CBPCA.

CBPCA Professional Membership: Benefits

• Pre-screened referrals to interested homeowners—we get these via our website, marketing, and Energy Star.   Only Professional Members will receive referrals from CBPCA.
  
• Participation in the Home Performance with Energy Star program, which allows use of the Energy Star logos on marketing materials.  Only Professional Members are allowed to use these logos and receive benefits and support from Energy Star.      
• Use of CBPCA logos and marketing materials
• Free CBPCA and Energy Star color brochures in quantity for marketing and sales activities (as supplies allow).
• Priority notification of all upcoming CBPCA courses, events, and materials
• Opportunities to participate in CBPCA exhibits, “home makeover” contests, and field training events
• Free Home Energy Magazine subscription
• Invitations to quarterly meetings with other CBPCA Professional Members
• Networking assistance to help contractors build complete home performance teams
• Signed CBPCA/Energy Star certificates of job completion for homeowners
• Access to the CBPCA Professional Members-only website, where you can download marketing materials, logos, technical protocols, sample homeowner reports, sample home performance contracts, etc.
• Access to our CBPCA Yahoo! Group for questions and answers about technical issues, discussion about Home Performance business opportunities, job announcements, etc.
• Two (2) free Quality Assurance (QA) inspections annually (see QA requirements below)
• Coming soon: exclusive utility-based incentives for homeowner

Requirements:

• All jobs reported online via secure CBPCA website (password-protected)
• Submit minimum documentation on jobs to satisfy Energy Star and utility requirements for paper review of all jobs  
• Cooperation with Energy Star's required QA verifications on 5% of jobs completed
• Minimum 1 job per quarter to remain in program

Annual dues:  $495. (Southern California contractors receive their first year free—see note below)

Note: for those who already paid a lower fee under a former invitation, there is no further cost for the current year.  Annual dues for Southern California contractors are waived the first year in the program (i.e., free Professional Membership for one year following their first training class).

CBPCA Associate Membership: Benefits

• Receive general announcements and a bi-monthly newsletter about CBPCA events, trainings, contractor profiles, classified ads, technical articles, hot tips, general industry news, etc.
• Discounted subscription to Home Energy Magazine.  

Requirement: Must complete the CBPCA 5- or 6-day basic Green Home Energy Upgrade training program.

Annual dues:   None
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Check out the new CBPCA website

The new and improved CBPCA contractors website is full of information for CBPCA members and the general public. Professional Members also have a new password-protected section (see login above) with access to logos and brochures, contractor job report templates, home performance protocols, an online data reporting system (coming soon), and much more.

If you're not already a Professional Member, check out the benefits and contact us to signup.

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