[Greenbuilding] British City Heat Mapping Houses for Efficiency

[Chris Green]

Stephen Collette wrote:
> OK I think that this is a seriously cool way to make some money with  
> a thermal imaging camera, and would consider purchasing one, just to  
> do a job like this. It's bordering on privacy invasion I suspect, but  
> if we could actually thermally map homes and note their heat loss as  
> this city has, then the potential of improving energy efficiency  
> would be yield similar results to the success of the blue box.
>
> http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/959/
>   
You might like to know about two institutes which offer training and 
certification in infrared thermography.
The Academy of Infrared Thermography was originally in Kamloops, B.C. 
but has relocated, judging by the phone numbers.
http://www.infraredtraining.net/

A successor to the Academy is the Institute of Thermography, which is 
still in Kamloops. The operator of this school was involved with the 
Academy in the past.
http://www.infraredinstitute.com/

There are probably others like this, but the Kamloops based ones seem to 
be among the earliest such training and certification services, if not 
the first. I came across this quite a few years ago. I don't know if 
it's online at either of these places now, but I remember the course 
description leaving me with the impression this could be quite a 
challenging course, made easier if one had a good grounding in college 
level physics and perhaps some engineering. Among other things, I 
believe they train you how to calibrate your instruments...ah I checked, 
and there is a set of course descriptions linked on the Institute index 
page.


Cheers,

Chris Green.