The New Jersey Clean Energy Learning Center and Center for Building Knowledge: An Overview

Deane Evans, Executive Director for New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Center for Building Knowledge, provides a background and overview of the Center and a walkthrough of the Center’s New Jersey Clean Energy Learning Center. The Clean Energy Learning Center provides online education to the full range of stakeholder gorups engaged with the Clean Energy Program – building owners and managers; design professionals; energy and other professionals; contractors; code officials; homeowners and CEP program representatives. Education is provided at a variety of scales to suit the particular needs of individual users: from short, 1-5 minute tutorials; to in-field demonstrations; to full-length courses that provide comprehensive training on a particular topic or procedure and that qualify for continuing education credit. The site currently provides educational offerings organized into the following five categories: Residential, Nonresidential, Technologies, Special Programs, and Education Catalog. 

The Clean Energy Center was developed and is currently maintained and updated by the Center for Building Knowledge at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

About the Instructor:

Deane Evans, FAIA, Executive Director, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Building Knowlegde. Mr. Evans is a registered architect and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He currently directs the Center for Building Knowledge (CBK) at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has over 30 years’ experience – in both the private and public  sectors – in creating and disseminating information on high performance buildings; including jobs as: Senior Principal at Steven Winter Associates, a building systems consulting firm; Vice President for Research at the American Institute of Architects in Washington, DC; and the founding director of the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) program at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. In his current position, Mr. Evans directs CBK, a multi-disciplinary research and technical assistance center focused on improving the performance of buildings and communities. 

Course Outline

• Background of NJIT’s Center for Building Knowledge

• Introduction to the New Jersey Clean Energy Learning Center

• How to use the Clean Energy Learning Center website

• Exam

• Certificate: 0.25 American Institute of Architects credits awarded on completion