CREDENTIALS
Certified Aging-in-Place Specialist (CAPS)
The Certified Aging-in-Place Specialist (CAPS) designation program teaches the technical, business management, and customer service skills essential to competing in the fastest-growing segment of the residential remodeling industry—home modifications for aging in place. The NAHB Remodelers Council—in collaboration with the AARP, NAHB Research Center and NAHB Senior Housing Council—developed this program to provide comprehensive, practical, market specific information about working with older and maturing adults to remodel their homes for aging in place.
Certified Graduate Remodelor (CGR)
Certified Graduate Remodelor (CGR) is an exclusive professional designation that was created to help identify those individuals who exemplify the professionalism of the remodeling industry. The CGR Board of Governors operates the program under the auspices of the Remodelors Council of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB RC). The program confers CGR credentials on those in the remodeling field who meet its prescribed standards of business experience and practices and who complete the program’s educational requirements.
CGR is designed to increase remodelors’ professional credibility by identifying those who demonstrate exceptional business integrity, competence, and a solid track record of consumer satisfaction.
Through its continuing education requirements,the CGR program improves a remodelor’s business expertise. The CGR program is the industry’s only designation program which emphasizes business management as the foundation of a successful remodeling company.
