Why consider NBC membership?

The desire to move forward in our profession is felt by many testing and balancing professionals. While some of those earning NBC certification do so to advance beyond their NCI residential and light commercial certification, many others are adding to, or moving from older, more established balancing certifications to take advantage of new opportunities and new ideas to develop the consulting aspect of their balancing business. Most of all, they want to get back to basics.

Many have been commercial balancers for a decade or more and have found our certification more suitable to the culture they have developed in their companies. This new culture and the practices that sustain it, implement pre-remodel testing, partnering with facilities managers and engineers to facilitate swift and effective improvement in building performance, energy consumption and comfort system performance.

In too many instances air and water balancing has declined to a "match-the-numbers" trade. A large percentage of the work is often completed by untrained laborers that simply adjust dampers and balancing valves to get passable numbers on a report. Actual testing of systems with CFM and GPM matching the plans often finds them operating at 60% or less of capacity.

NBC certification hosts professionals who have returned to the basics. Our mission is to go back to what balancing certification used to be, a non-profit, non-competing organization committed to sustaining contractors, and focused on creating and maintaining top HVAC system performance.

We have served your balancing needs for over a dozen years now through the National Comfort Institute. For a number of years you have asked for a commercial version of what was offered on the residential/light commercial side of the business. We heard you loud and clear and NBC was created to fill the need you expressed. Here are a few of the benefits of associating with NBC:

• Basic and advanced commercial air balance training including live VAV box testing
• Live, how-to and solutions based hydronic balancing in our hydronics lab
• Unlimited 800 phone line tech support service
• NBC Air and Hydronic Balancing Specifications
• Professional Specifications Packages - NBC Marketing materials for HVAC system designers and specifiers
• NBC commercial balancing reports
• Easy to implement NBC Air and Hydronic Balancing Procedures and Practical Standards
• Customized NBC Certified Stamps for your reports
• NBC Supervisor Certification and NBC Certified Technician Certification
• Practical "how to" training in the development of highly profitable NBC Certified Professional Consulting Services
• Extensive troubleshooting training enabling accurate Balancing Deficiency Reports and Field Defects Reports
• NBC's surgical and diagnostic perspective providing opportunities for your company to profit from pre and post remodel work in harmony with design professionals.
• NBC provides for, and encourages mechanical contractors to provide their own balancing on their projects with the approval of building owners and designers believing balancing to be an integral step in the life of a project.
• NBC testing far exceeds traditional balancing results with the inclusion of CSER® and HSER® Installed HVAC System Efficiency Rating.
• NBC Firms are finding eager acceptance of NBC certified testing by design professionals who have experienced discouraging results with traditional balancing certifications.
• Freedom of a versatile affiliation inclusion offered by NBC Certification. Union or non-union, contractor or non-contractor status is welcomed.
• An organization that truly listens and responds to YOU, the members