Certification Programs

NALMCO offers three nationally recognized certifications which identify professionals who demonstrate a high degree of competence and knowledge. Education tells you that your people are trained to perform their best, while certification assures your customers that your people are thoroughly competent and professional.

Certifications Include:

• Certified Apprentice Lighting Technician (CALT) Certified Senior Lighting Technician (CSLT) 
  
  
• Certified Lighting Management Consultant (CLMC) 

The Value Of Certification

While the benefits of NALMCO membership are broad in their scope and serve members in diverse ways, NALMCO’s certification programs are one of the most significant benefits of membership.

More so than other associations, we have taken steps to provide training and education to ensure a disciplined, professional and uniform approach to lighting management, consistent throughout NALMCO member companies. This uniformity in approach and service delivery is extremely valuable as many of us work with customers at a national account level.

Over the past couple of months, we been continued our efforts to gain increased national recognition for all NALMCO member companies, but especially for those members who have passed the requirements necessary to obtain the Certified Lighting Management Consultant (CLMC) designation. There has been significant progress in bringing the importance of certification to the forefront of our national leaders and to the public. This includes the CLMC’s inclusion in an article written by NALMCO member Mark Lien from Hubbell Lighting. His article, "The Alphabet Soup Of Lighting Certifications", was first published in LD+A, a publication of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA).

There have been some very exciting developments in NALMCO’s push for national recognition. We are working closely with some of our past presidents, representatives of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) to position NALMCO in a favorable "light" with the IRS in matters pertaining to EPACT 2005 and Building of the 21st Century legislation.