Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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I had no issue in California getting my PE license as a full-time building performance analyst. This might differ from state to state. This was at an MEP firm though, so I had plenty of people with PEs to get references from, but there were also plenty of full-time building performance analysts at the firm who had PE licenses to act as a reference. For example, my direct supervisor was a licensed PE (and also a full-time analyst for their entire career).
I didn't have any questions about my experience when I applied, and hadn't heard of any other analyst types receiving issues either. As an aside, I thought my analysis experience was pretty well suited towards the HVAC PE exam. There were tons (pun intended) of questions that could be solved with equations like 500gpmdeltaT, 1.08cfmdeltaT, etc., that I had used hundreds of times in 8760 spreadsheet calcs.
Hope this helps.
