HBDP – High-Performance Building Design Professional Certification

Why High-Performance Building Design Professionals Pursue the ASHRAE HBDP

• Elevate your reputation among peers, in the workplace and among clients
• Demonstrate competency in critical building energy audit knowledge, skills and abilities
• The HBDP digital badge guarantees enhanced recognition
• Convenient online proctored testing from your home or office.
• ANSI-accredited, ensuring fairness and validity

 

Why Employers Support the ASHRAE HBDP

• Recruit the most-qualified professionals
• Elevated reputation and credibility among current and potential customers
• Enhanced compliance with applicable local, state and federal requirements
• Provides clear, value-added professional development goal
• Greater employee job satisfaction and higher retention

Eligibility Checklist

• Education and Work Experience
• Code of Ethics
• Pass HBDP Certification Exam

Download a Candidate Guidebook to learn more.

Beginning August 15, 2020, the HBDP program will validate competency against updated certification exam requirements.

To review the updated Detailed Content Outline, please see Appendix B.

Key Policies

Review key policies related to Request for Special Accommodations, Impartiality, Certification Complaint Process, Appeal of Certification Denial, and Guidelines for Suspending, Withdrawing or Reducing the Scope of Certification.

Questions?

These Certification FAQs can help. Please call 678-539-1105 or email with any additional questions.

APPLY FOR HBDP

Application Fees

The ASHRAE member discounted application fee is $395 (non-member – $595).

After ASHRAE approves your application, you will receive instructions on how to schedule your exam as a remote online proctored exam at your home or office, or at a computer-based testing location.

Note: Non-native English speakers may apply to receive an additional 30 minutes of testing time.

Questions?

These Certification FAQs can help. Please call 678-539-1105 or email with any additional questions.

Approved Certification Candidates may schedule their exam as a remote online proctored exam at their home or office, or at a computer-based testing location.

Remote Online Proctored

• NEW! Convenient, secure remotely proctored testing coming soon.
• Schedule and sit for your exam from your home or office
• Secure, safe exam delivery with a live, remote proctor

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Testing Center

Testing centers are available worldwide.

As part of the global effort to contain and mitigate the impact of COVID-19, ASHRAE testing partner PSI has instituted enhanced procedures which in some cases may include the temporary closing of some of the test centers.

Questions?

These Certification FAQs can help. Please email or call 678-539-1105 with any additional questions.

Get HBDP exam ready by following these few, easy steps:

• Review the Exam Blueprint in Appendix A of the Candidate Guidebook
• Take the 30-question, online Practice Exam
• Consider any publication or training resources for Exam Preparation
• Review Tips and Strategies for exam preparation
• Try these Sample Exam Items

Questions

These Certification FAQs can help. Please email or call 678-539-1105 with any additional questions.

Renew Your HBDP Certification

RECERTIFY HBDP

Recertification every three years helps ensure HBDPs maintain a level of continuing competence through acceptable professional development in subject matter related to their certification.

Application Fees

The ASHRAE Member discounted, on-time application fee is $195 (non-member – $295).

Eligibility Checklist

• Forty-five (45) Professional Development Hours (PDHs)
• Code of Ethics

Questions

These Certification FAQs can help. Please email or call 678-539-1105 with any additional questions.