Master Inspector Certification Board

 

PRESS RELEASE

 

January 22, 2006

 

BOULDER, Colo. -- Nick Gromicko, founder of the National Association of Certified Home Inspectors (InterNACHI), the world's largest home inspector trade association, has formed a new non-profit organization for the purposes of refining the requirements for earning the Certified Master Inspector (CMI) professional designation.  The new organization, Master Inspector Certification Board, Inc., will, among other things, administer the CMI Program, help inspection industry schools and educators offer the required training, and award graduates of participating schools the CMI professional designation.

 

In connection with the formation of the Master Inspector Certification Board, Mr. Gromicko, previous owner of the registered certification mark "Certified Master Inspector," has assigned all rights, title and interest in the mark, as well as "CMI," over to the new board.

 

An oversight board consisting of leaders from all areas of the inspection industry is currently being assembled, which will include a representative from every major inspection school.

 

"Our goal is to provide incentives to inspectors to avail themselves of advanced continuing education options offered by the various participating inspection schools, thus raising the level of professionalism in the industry to the ultimate benefit of the home-buying consumer," said Nick Gromicko.  "Both inspector and consumer are best served when inspectors have access to advanced education when they most need it: early on in their careers.   Advanced classroom, hands-on, and online education permits the CMI professional designation to be both attainable to inspectors and meaningful to consumers."

 

InterNACHI, through its Professional Development Director, its National Training Consultant and its CMI Spearhead Committee, has offered the Master Inspector Certification Board access to the work it has done with regard to the CMI curriculum outline that schools can use as a framework to develop their own CMI courses.  InterNACHI-proposed CMI prerequisites will be refined to make the CMI professional designation more inclusive to newer inspectors (who most need advanced education to offset their lack of experience).

 

Anyone interested in contributing to the further development and operation of the new Master Inspector Certification Board, or any schools wishing to participate by offering advanced training leading to the CMI professional designation should, for the time being, contact Nick Gromicko at fastreply@nachi.org for more information. 

 

A staff is being assembled and a dedicated CMI website is being developed.  A list of participating schools and educators, as well as the contact information of those willing to sit on the oversight board, will be published as they develop.  The Master Inspector Certification Board, Inc., is a non-profit corporation independent of all trade associations, schools and private interests.

 

 

www.certifiedmasterinspector.org

 

 

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