Manufactured Home Certification

Field Technician Training

Learn how to become a field technician and increase your inspection bookings and add considerable dollars to your bottom line. Enhance your service offerings with detailed and colorful reports and open doors to valuable relationships with lenders, real estate professionals and homeowners. Becoming a field technician can, significantly expanding your professional network. Seize this unique opportunity to stand out and secure a prosperous future in the industry.

The field technician surveys the home’s foundation, collects the required information, and then transfers that information to an engineering professional for review, evaluation, and issuing of the foundation certificate.

Coming in 2025 | In-Person | Monroe, NC

What is a manufactured home certification?

HUD and FHA lender requirements mandate that a manufactured home must have an engineering certification that the foundation is permanent and meets federal requirements.

A HUD manufactured home foundation certification is an engineer’s or architect’s signed statement verifying a manufactured home’s permanent foundation complies with the HUD Permanent Foundations Guide for Manufactured Housing (PFGMH), a requirement for government-backed loans like FHA.

The certification confirms the foundation is site-built, uses durable materials, provides proper anchors for stability against wind and seismic forces, and ensures the home is permanently attached to the ground.

Includes 4 North Carolina Continuing Education Credit Hours

Pending Approval

Meet Your Instructor

Harold Van Dyk - MFD

President MFD Manufactured Home Certifications, PLLC

Master Inspector with a Diverse Skill Set. Harold has been revolutionizing home inspections since 1998. His extensive experience includes thousands of home inspections and over a decade in engineering inspections of manufactured homes, where he also imparts his knowledge to other inspectors.

Beyond his core expertise, Harold is a Certified Mold Inspector, Radon Gas Tester, and conducts Well and Septic Inspections. As an expert witness, he supports legal teams with his insights. Outside of work,

Casa Training Academy is committed to connecting you with industry experts to provide diversity in training and instruction

Course Content & Outline

Part 1. Background and Important General Information – 45 minutes

Who are we?
What do we do?
How are we different from other engineering firms which provide this service?
Why Choose Manufactured Home Certifications?
Quiz
HUD Compliance Certifications
1. What are they and when are they required?
  1. Foundation
  2. Additions

1^st permanent location

Quiz
What is a Manufactured Home and what is in not?
1. Modular Home
2. Mobile Home
3. Manufactured Home
  1. Exterior data tags
  2. Interior data sheet

Single. Double, triple or quad – wide?

Quiz

Part 2. The Permanent Foundation Certification – 1 hour

The Permanent Foundation Certification
1. Site-built support structure for the home
2. Tie-down system
3. Grading/lay of the land
The 2 ways to meet HUD Guidelines
1. HUD designed foundation
2. Foundation designed by an engineer or architect.
Anatomy of a manufactured home and the foundation system
1. Chassis Beams
2. Steel Lateral Floor Beams
3. Transverse Beams
4. Support Piers
5. Perimeter Wall
What is a “Load Path”?
1. Broken
2. Unbroken
3. Load paths present in the structure of a manufactured home.
  1. Without transverse beams
  2. With Transverse Beams
    1. Quiz
    2. Tie-Down System
      1. Purpose
        Lateral Loads
        Vertical Loads
    - Tension versus Compression

Quiz
How to find, determine and describe a tie-down system
1. Acceptable types of connections
  1. “Permanent” versus “non-permanent”
  2. Starting Points
    1. Chassis Beams
    2. Sill-Plate
  3. Examples of Acceptable Tie-downs
2. Quiz
3. Grading and Drainage
4. Quiz

Part 3. The Additions Certification – 1 Hour

Background Information
1. Design and construction of manufactured homes
2. Limitations for load transfers
3. HUD Guideline requirements
Conducting the Additions Certification
1. You must have access to the home.
2. Determining if a load transfer is present or not.
3. What is the definition of an addition?
4. We must do all additions.
Examples of addition load transfers and solutions.
Entering additions into the web-portal.
1^st Permanent Location
1. What to look for.
  1. Age/Condition
  2. Building Records

Belly Paper Intact?

Cut straps?

Part 4. Conducting the Field Work – 30 Minutes

Picture Requirements
Elevation Pics
Order of taking pics and doing the walk-around
Required Pic examples based on the walk-around
Personal Safety

Part 5. Final Comments – 15 Minutes

Who Should Take this Course?

Inspectors who want to set their business apart & make more money by offering additional services.

Inspectors who want to help their clients better understand the property they're buying.

Inspectors who want to expand their knowledge and grow their business

Credits

Participants receive 4 continuing education credits that apply to license renewal

CASA Training Academy is an approved NCHILB training sponsor, HS140, and will pay the required fees, and register your credits with the NCHILB

Tickets! Get Your Tickets!

This is a live in-person event, live steaming is not available for this event.

In-Person

Class Times

November 7, 2025

12:30 PM-4:30 PM

Event Locations

CASA Training Academy (HQ)

219 N. Hayne Street

Monroe, NC 28112

980-621-9230

* Travel and lodging expenses are not included in the registration fee.

Food

In Class Refreshments Provided

Cancelations & Refunds

Cancellations and refunds are offered, please see our refund policy page for details.

What about COVID?

We recommend you follow safe practices when it comes to your health and those around you. There is always a risk when conducting in-person meetings and interacting with others. If this presents a concern then you should take precautions and practice social distancing when possible.

Lodging

If you would like to stay overnight

Other options are also available nearby.