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
