Establishes a baseline for competency, business practices, and industry-accepted guidelines for glazing contractors.
NACC is North America’s ONLY credential for architectural glass and metal (glazing) contractors. The NACC program recognizes glazing contractors that consistently demonstrate quality and safety excellence. The program offers an ANAB-accredited third-party endorsement of companies having completed a significant and time-intensive evaluation process establishing a baseline for competency, business practices, and industry accepted-guidelines. By assessing all aspects of a glazing contractor’s business, the well-rounded certification process benchmarks the means and methods that drive high performance and high quality across the industry.
Certification allows glazing contractors to demonstrate – through an independent, third party and documented evidence – that they have taken the right steps to deliver the best possible quality and safety to their clients. NACC helps glazing contractors build stronger, more successful businesses.
The NACC credential offers a qualitative means for an owner, general contractor, or construction manager to reduce the risk associated with selecting a glazing contractor. NACC offers proof that a glazing contractor has processes and procedures in place to consistently meet high standards. Certification reduces risk by minimizing errors, improving documentation, and establishing standards for business and glazing. NACC means improved job sites and safety, minimized subcontractor defaults, and fewer construction claims.
General contractors report that when they seek new glazing contractors, certification ensures competency without guesswork. As more design and construction professionals become aware of NACC, their focus on glazing quality has translated to specifications. Increasingly, the NACC credential has become a quality requirement in specifications for its risk protection, quality assurance, and overall project benefits.
“As architects, we always want to achieve what we are specifying and accomplish the goal of having beautiful buildings that work. Making sure the glass and metal are installed professionally and at the highest level of competence is something we all greatly value.”
Rowan O. Georges, AIA, Senior Associate Principal, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), New York, New York