Commissioning Building Enclosure Assemblies and Systems

Event Dates/Times:

• 6/8/2026  8:00am - 5:00pm Central Time
• 6/9/2026  8:00am - 5:00pm Central Time
• 6/10/2026  8:00am - 5:00pm Central Time

The enrollment and successful completion of this course will meet the eligibility requirements for the certification course, Building Enclosure Commissioning Certification Examination.  If you are interested in pursuing commissioning certification, consider enrolling in both these courses simultaneously. Alternatively, you may enroll in the certification course at a later date when it becomes available.

• Instructors

  Fiona Aldous

  Senior Principal

  Fiona Aldous is a Senior Principal with Wiss Janney Elstner Associates. She has performed comprehensive building enclosure commissioning on numerous new buildings and repaired a variety of existing building enclosures on projects throughout North America. Her hands-on experience includes design, detailing and installation of various high-performance enclosures, comprising curtain wall and window systems, air barriers, waterproofing of below-grade and plaza systems, low slope roofs and the interfaces of the various enclosure components. Fiona holds a post-graduate Master of Architecture, Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Science degrees. She was a prime author of the BECx industry's founding document, NIBS/ASHRAE Guideline 3 - The Building Enclosure Commissioning Process. She actively serves on ASHRAE technical committees. Is past convener of ISO21105, Performance of Buildings — Building enclosure thermal performance verification and commissioning document. Fiona has authored articles and papers, taught classes and provided presentations on various aspects of the building enclosure and commissioning in the USA, Canada, Japan and Australia.

  Ian McIntosh

  Program Director

  Dr. Ian McIntosh is a Program Director for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Office of Interdisciplinary Professional Programs (InterPro).  He joined the InterPro Facilities and Building Systems team in December 2020 after being a frequent lecturer and course developer for the previous 20 years.   His responsibilities include teaching, directing and business development for commissioning certification courses related to project management, existing buildings, and building enclosures.  He is also the owner and founder of ianTEACH LLC, which provides innovative and strategic performance-based training and coaching to engineers, architects, construction, and facilities management professionals in various sectors of the national building industry.

  Chris Schumacher

  Senior Building Science Specialist

  Chris is an expert in the field of building monitoring and enclosure and building systems testing. Chris oversees much of the work done through RDH Building Science Laboratories, and he regularly consults on the development of experimental test programs for academic institutions, building product manufacturers, and government agencies. Chris’s research work includes the Thermal Metric Project, a multiyear investigation of thermal performance in full-scale wall assemblies; and the development of an apparatus and test method that measures dense-pack airflow resistance to support the development of the Building Performance Institute’s test standard BPI-103 and material standard BPI-102. Before joining RDH, Chris was a founding principal of Building Science Consulting Inc. and a founding partner of Balanced Solutions Inc., an innovative Canadian building science RD&D consultancy.

• Program Director

  Ian McIntosh

Please Note: The enrollment and successful completion of this course will meet the eligibility requirements for the certification course, Building Enclosure Commissioning Certification Examination.  If you are interested in pursuing commissioning certification, consider enrolling in both these courses simultaneously. Alternatively, you may enroll in the certification course at a later date when it becomes available.