Certification Eligibility & Options
Certification Eligibility
Individuals who are 18 years old* or older can take a Green Advantage® Certification Exam and become certified. Green Advantage (GA) does not exclude anyone from taking the certification exams on the grounds of race, color, national origin, gender, or sexual orientation. Although Green Advantage does not provide, authorize or endorse training, and training is not required in order to take the GA Exam®, it recommends that candidates enroll in preparatory training.
To become a Green Advantage Certified Practitioner (GACP), individuals must demonstrate foundational knowledge, comprehension, and the ability to analyze green construction concepts, materials, and practices by passing a Green Advantage Exam. Green Advantage emphazised the following:
- Improving the environmental and health attributes of the built environment through the roles of construction personnel
- Enhancing crew collaboration
- Cutting costs
- Increasing revenues while still achieving project performance requirements.
Certification Options (C, R, C/R)
Green Advantage® offers three different certification exams – Commercial, Residential, and Commercial/Residential. Although many of the exam questions for the Commercial and Residential versions of the exam are identical, some are unique to the respective field requirements presented by green commercial or residential projects. GA Exam® prep materials cover all three exams.
* Individuals aged 16 and 17 may also register, take the Green Advantage Exam, and become certified if written parental consent is on file prior to exam administration.
