Want to learn how to build and sell a high-performance home? Attend these Union Gas seminars…

Starting tomorrow, and for the next two months, Union Gas will be conducting a series of seminars in cities thoughout Ontario to help builders learn how to sell and build high performance homes.

The one day technical seminars will explain:

– What is new in the Energy Star for New Homes standard

– How to build 20 per cent above Ontario Building Code 2012 standards in a cost-effective way

– How to achieve the new resource requirements in the Part 9 of the 2012 Ontario Building Code

– How to improve product quality, reduce costs and provide excellent after-sales service

But if you build it well and cost-effectively, will they come? And can you sell them? The Union Gas sales seminars will help builders understand:

– Homeowners’ perceptions and buying behaviour

– How to market and sell the features and benefits of high performance homes

– How to close the sale

The technical seminars will conducted by Andy Oding, one of the first builders in Canada to build a home to LEED standard, and Tex McLeod, a leading expert in high tech building.

The seminars will start Jan. 23 in Windsor and end April 23 in Thunder Bay, Ont. For a complete schedule, go to http://www.uniongas.com/optimumhome