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The Building Performance Institute (BPI) released figures this week showing a significant surge in professional Home Performance credentialing and training activities last year.

According to the report, BPI-certified professionals are now located in all 50 states and five other nations, with the Western region seeing the most aggressive growth of over 400 percent in 2010 alone. The number of contracting companies earning BPI Accredited Contractor status doubled for the second year in a row, and the network of BPI affiliate training organizations increased 78 percent, to a total of 242.

The organization also earned accreditation from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as a developer of American National Standards for the residential energy efficiency retrofit community, and more than 100 utility, state and local energy retrofit incentive programs now require BPI credentials.

“Those of us who have dedicated many years of our lives and large portions of our careers to building a viable building energy retrofit industry are especially gratified to see the growth of professional credentialing in recent years,” BPI Chairman David Hepinstall said in reference to the announcement. “The growth of the energy efficient buildings sector will continue to present new challenges to our industry to maintain standards for building performance work and for training and BPI is well prepared and positioned to meet those challenges in the years to come.”