HFDP – Healthcare Facility Design Professional Certification

Why Healthcare Facility Design Professionals Pursue the ASHRAE HFDP

• Elevate your reputation among peers, in the workplace and among clients
• Demonstrate competency in critical healthcare facility design knowledge, skills and abilities
• The HFDP 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 HFDP

• Recruit the most-qualified professionals
• Elevated reputation and credibility among current and potential customers
• Provides clear, value-added professional development goal
• Greater employee job satisfaction and higher retention

Eligibility Checklist

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

Download a Candidate Guidebook to learn more.

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 HFDP

Application Fees

ASHRAE Member: $395
ASHRAE Developing Economies Member: $235
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.
• 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 HFDP exam ready by following these few, easy steps:

• Review the Exam Blueprint in Appendix B 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 call 678-539-1105 or email with any additional questions.

Recertify HFDP

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

Application Fees

ASHRAE Member: $195
ASHRAE Developing Economies Member: $115
Non-member: $295

Eligibility Checklist

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

Note: Acceptable evidence of professional development hours (PDHs) earned is supporting documentation issued by a third-party, which includes the name of the certificant and the date earned. In the case of continuing education, supporting documentation also must include the number of clock hours of participation, and a title indicating the subject matter.

Questions

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