by Shane Henson — July 10, 2013—Building Professionals, a Winnipeg, Canada-based family company that has been providing quality assurance, certification, training and consulting services for over three decades, recently launched a complete upgrade and revamp of its quality assurance program.
The new program, QAP 2.O, builds on some of the work and standards developed in the mid-1980s that aimed to improve the quality and professionalism of contractors providing services to the residential energy efficiency industry, says Building Professionals.
This program was designed to provide a very high level of consumer protection, while at the same time providing value and a return on investment for the contractors that will participate in the program. The program is industry based, bringing in manufacturers, contractors, architects, building officials, and home/building owners.
Building Professionals says the program will focus, at first, on the sprayed polyurethane foam industry (spray foam pro) in Canada and the United States. This will be followed by other programs that the company has developed over the past three decades to improve and upgrade overall building quality.
Tackling existing buildings is the single largest impact in order to reduce energy use and meet the challenges of climate change, while at the same time providing economic benefits and consumer protection, notes the group. Building Professionals will be launching this program in other countries over the course of 2013. Countries include Mexico, Spain, Chile, Japan, China, Sweden, United States, South Africa and others.
