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Discover how IBTS Puerto Rico’s strategic community engagement approach helps overcome challenges, build trust, and create resilient, locally driven solutions.
Latest Insights
Discover how IBTS Puerto Rico’s strategic community engagement approach helps overcome challenges, build trust, and create resilient, locally driven solutions.
Manufactured homes play a vital role in affordable homeownership in the U.S., providing the largest share of unsubsidized affordable housing nationwide.
The Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS) is proud to unveil the findings of a comprehensive economic study that underscores the significant impact of its Workforce Training Program (WFT) in Puerto Rico.
News
Discover how IBTS Puerto Rico’s strategic community engagement approach helps overcome challenges, build trust, and create resilient, locally driven solutions.
Manufactured homes play a vital role in affordable homeownership in the U.S., providing the largest share of unsubsidized affordable housing nationwide.
The Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS) is proud to unveil the findings of a comprehensive economic study that underscores the significant impact of its Workforce Training Program (WFT) in Puerto Rico.
Podcasts
Solar standards are critical to ensuring the performance, resilience, and safety of solar photovoltaic installations and, accordingly, to protecting building owners, installers, manufacturers, and jurisdictions. In this episode of On Further Inspection, learn about the history of solar standards and IBTS' role in their evolution from our guest, Rudy Saporite, Program Director for IBTS' Energy Services.
In this first episode of IBTS' podcast On Further Inspection, host Gabby Geraci invites guests Chris Miller, IBTS Director of Local Government Services, and IBTS Inspector Jesse Harris to share insight into how jurisdictions can benefit from third-party inspections and other building department services.
Case Studies
The Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS) is a national, nonprofit professional services organization providing on-call, third-party building department support for local governments. In this white paper, IBTS shares its experiences with remote building inspections to help jurisdictions evaluate the utility of this emerging approach for their own building departments. IBTS is also seeking to establish a steering committee to help define best practices for local governments. For more information, visit ibts.org/remote
In this case study, learn how the three organizations worked together to develop the platform that has revolutionized CAL FIRE’s project workflows.
Incorporation to Community Success: A Case Study Examining the Journey and Achievements of Central Louisiana.
Guides
Download the solar inpsections checklist below.
IBTS has developed a Solar Labeling Requirements guide to help during Solar PV installations and inspections.
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