NBT is a General Builder and Construction Management firm serving the Greater San Francisco Bay Area with quality construction since 1999.
Our operations are primarily in Residential an Commercial sectors involving with multi-family housing, commercial, and infrastructure projects.
Our projects include government, private, and negotiated work, and the remaining projects are competitively bid.
We are routinely involved in the early stages of project design, assist with the budget planning process, and work as team members with the designers and owners.
About Our Company
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Our Approach to Doing Business
We value the team approach, from the planning stages through construction. To be sure we're working as a team, NBT management is always accessible to our clients. We don't waste your time. We make sure our workload never exceeds our ability for executive involvement. By working with a select group of clients, we can allocate maximum resources to each project.
We work to exceed our clients' expectations. We make sure your needs determine the project schedule, design and completion. We focus on your priorities and are attentive to every detail.
What's more, we believe that our commitment to client service has kept us on the cutting edge of the construction business. It's the fundamental element in our success.
We believe building relationships is the most important part of every job.
The Company
NBT Construction is a construction services firm with expertise in renovation and new construction of multifamily housing, commercial, and infrastructure.
The founder, Thang B. Nguyen, opened the doors of the company in 1999, as a small residential carpentry firm in the city of Oakland. NBT’s principles have changed little from the days when the company first started: hire the most talented and qualified people who enjoy building, and who understand the needs of their clients.
A significant portion of the cost is paid for through government incentives.
Federal Tax Credits:
In addition to state rebates and incentives, the Federal government offers a 30% Treasury Grant (Investment Tax Credit or ITC) on solar power systems, and allows businesses an accelerated depreciation schedule over 6 years.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 now allows taxpaying entities the option to receive the ITC as a grant from the U.S. Treasury Department instead of taking it as a tax credit for projects which are started in 2010 and placed into service on or before December 31, 2016.
State Incentives:
California
The State of California offers substantial rebates for both large and small commercial solar electric systems through the California Solar Initiative. Depending on the size of your facility, you will qualify for either the Expected Performance Based Buydown (EPBB) or a Performance Based Incentive (PBI) program. These rebates can cover as much as 20% of the total system cost.
A solar power system on your building is a long term, low risk, and high return way to invest your money. Solar offers an initial annual return on investment of 5-11%. This is very competitive with other higher risk investments such as stocks and bonds. As utility rates increase the annual return increases.
Solar power can reduce or eliminate your electric bill. In addition, any excess solar power can be fed into the utility grid resulting in a credit with the utility company. Some businesses may be able to take advantage of time-of-use metering. This will allow you to feed power into the grid during peak times (when power is most expensive), and draw power from the grid during off peak times (when power cheaper).
Why Solar?
One benefit for photovoltaic (PV) solar energy systems is that the annual peak of the solar resource (and a PV systems output) occurs on sunny summer days. This corresponds exactly with utilities highest energy demand periods and their highest energy charges.
During the winter in the north east there is less sun per day available to power PV systems. However, on clear days with snow cover, there is up to a 60% output increase from light reflected off snow. And the efficiency of crystalline PV cells is improved in the cold. Thus on cold, sunny winter days, crystalline PV systems will have their highest output.
Solar benefits also stem from generous incentives offered by the state and federal government, rapidly rising electricity costs, and rapid advancement of solar technology.
Solar electricity systems have no moving parts, so they have a very long lifetime, and are virtually maintenance-free.
Systems can also be customized to exactly suit specific load requirements and later expanded in modular fashion. The modularity allows you to invest exactly according to your current needs.
In addition to stabilizing energy costs, solar energy is also an attractive investment due to the added resale value it gives a home. In todays increasingly tight housing market, a home with a solar electric system is cheaper to live in and thus is very appealing to potential buyers
