RESNET BOARD’S POLICIES ON ENHACING THE CONSISTENCY OF HERS INDEX SCORES

• RESNET certified Quality Assurance Designees must in the future:
  • Serve as agents of RESNET
  • Have neither a financial interest nor an employee/employer relationship with the entity performing the rating
• That the RENSET quality assurance standards maintain the current requirement of annual quality assurance review of raters consisting of 1% field reviews and 10% building file reviews with provisions through modification to the standard to add additional oversight of HERS Raters when errors are found in these reviews.
• RESNET incorporate changes to rating software standards that would include:
  • Establish limits on input variables for whole-house ventilations systems and other in the RESNET Standards
  • Determine bounds checks that can be incorporated into software to limit or warn users when input values are beyond reasonable limits
  • Enhance rating software tools to enable Quality Assurance Designee flags to be set for internal inconsistencies that should be checked prior to entering a building file into RESNET registry
  • Modify RESNET registry XML schema to include reporting of the Quality Assurance Designee flags to RESNET staff