Decades of Home Performance Expertise Await You in Ohio - GreenBuildingAdvisor
Summary
The National Home Performance Conference in Columbus, Ohio, from April 13-16, 2026, offers a unique opportunity for professionals in home performance to enhance their skills and network with industry leaders.
Why It Matters
This conference serves as a pivotal event for professionals in the home performance sector, fostering knowledge exchange and collaboration among various stakeholders. It highlights advancements in building science and energy efficiency, which are crucial for addressing modern housing challenges.
Key Takeaways
- The NHPC is the longest-running event focused on home performance and energy efficiency.
- Attendees can learn from industry experts and gain insights into the latest building science advancements.
- Networking opportunities abound, allowing professionals to connect and collaborate across various sectors.
Building Science Decades of Home Performance Expertise Await You in Ohio The National Home Performance Conference is April 13-16, 2026 By Allison A. Bailes III, PhD | February 26, 2026 More Building Science 11 Ways to Screw Up an ERV Installation How to Keep Bugs and Critters Out of Your House 7 Ways Airtightness Improves Your Home Oversizing HRVs and ERVs: How Much Energy Can It Save? Want to be known for your home performance expertise? Or add to your building science knowledge and skills? How about connect with others who do home performance work? There’s one event that is hands down the best place to do those things. And that’s the National Home Performance Conference and Trade Show (NHPC), which is being held in Columbus, Ohio this year from 13 to 16 April. A couple of vicennials† Home performance began in the 1970s and gained momentum in the ’80s and ’90s. The blower door, infrared cameras, and other new tools led to huge gains in our knowledge of how buildings work. It began with the discovery of the thermal bypass by researchers at Princeton University. Then it was the importance of duct leakage and how mechanical systems could interact with other things happening in homes. That led to MAD AIR and zonal pressure diagnostics. Over two thousand people have been attending this conference in recent years This conference started up in 1986, two vicennials ago (a bivicennial?), as people all over North America were discovering these things. It was THE event to attend jus...
