Obituary: National Comfort Institute President Gregory Robert (Rob) Falke
On May 3, 2022, the HVAC industry lost a true trailblazer with the passing of Gregory Robert (Rob) Falke, due to complications from COVID-19.
Falke’s career began after joining his father's residential/commercial HVAC company in Turlock, California. His job was managing service and sales. In his sales position, Falke quickly discovered that comfort issues plagued many buildings. As an avid reader of every HVAC technical journal and magazine he could get his hands on, Falke learned about an air capture hood and studied everything he could find on measuring airflow. He soon purchased his first balancing hood to help correct significant comfort issues in one customer's building. Before long, he was correcting airflow issues in buildings across California’s central valley.