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Consistent Delivery of Quality Services. Illinois Weatherization. Focus On Quality. “The Main Thing is Keeping the Main Thing, the Main Thing!!!” The Main Thing is Quality You Gotta Get it Right EVERY TIME!!! How Do You Do This???????. Focus On Quality. Work Standards
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Consistent Delivery of Quality Services Illinois Weatherization
Focus On Quality • “The Main Thing is Keeping the Main Thing, the Main Thing!!!” • The Main Thing is Quality • You Gotta Get it Right EVERY TIME!!! • How Do You Do This???????
Focus On Quality • Work Standards • Training, Training, Training • Target the Energy Audit/Assessment • Make the Crew /Contractor Accountable • Final Inspections/Quality Assurance • Compliance Monitoring
Weatherization Standards • We Developed Standards About 15 Years Ago • You Get What You INSPECT…Not What You EXPECT! • Things Started to Change/Improve When We Finally Started to Tie Our Compliance Monitoring to the Standards. • Cite Your Standards, Reference Your Standards…
Training, Training, Training • We operate our own Weatherization Training and Certification Program (TCP) • Used to be 7-Week Training • Run through the University of Illinois (U of I) • Now 10-Weeks of Courses and Fieldwork • Focused on Assessment with More “Hands On” Activity and Testing • Includes a Mid-Term Assessment Exercise.
Revised TCP • Basic Weatherization • Heat Transfer • Building Fundamentals • Diagnostics • Infra-Red/Basic Arch. Energy Audit • Basic HVAC • Advanced HVAC • HVAC Air Flow/Air Conditioning/Heat Pumps • Health and Safety/Lead Safe Work • Field Energy Audit/Proficiency Exam • State Staff Energy Audit Review
Target The Energy Audit/Assessment • I Think We Miss the Boat When We Hang Our Hat on the Final Inspection/Quality Assurance Monitoring • Why Do We Do What We Do??????? • We Are Going Back to the Basics • Tie Your Monitoring to the Energy Audit Before the Work is Done • You Get to See What Should Have Been Done, Instead What Happened After the Fact. • We Will Tie These Observations to Training Needed.
Make The Crew/Contractor Accountable • IDThem in Your Reports • If Work is Poor, Target Them in Your Next Monitoring Visits • Disallow Costs • Follow Up
Final Inspections/Quality Assurance • Where Do We Go From Here?? • Third Party Inspections? • What We Do… • How Do You Instill a Sense of Pride and Responsibility?
Compliance Monitoring • You Get What You Inspect…Not What You Expect • What is Your Current Monitoring Percent? • Can You Expand It?? • Electronic Systems/Desk Audits…Target Your Compliance Monitoring.