Industry Standards
IBC, ACI 318, CSA A23.4, PCI MNL-116, AWS D1.4, ISO/IEC 9000
PRECAST CONCRETE FABRICATOR PROGRAM
IAPMO Uniform ES has published evaluation criteria for precast concrete fabricators (EC22)
TIME IS MONEY
A Uniform ES Certification does all this for you
It’s an old adage, but certainly applies. How long would it take your sales staff to travel to all the building jurisdictions in North America and convince them your precast concrete fabrication facility meets the codes? Impossible, right? A Uniform ES Certification does it for you.
No one knows better than you that today’s tough market requires more than talent for success.
Successful companies use every available advantage to increase product sales. Uniform ES will provide documentation of compliance or assurance to regulators, building owners, specifiers, and builders that the recognized fabricators operate under a set of robust and functional processes to provide quality systems that meet the stakeholders’ expectations.
When your sales staff makes pitches, would prospective clients find a third-party document summarizing all relevant code issues valuable? Especially if the third party is a group known and trusted by code officials? More specifically, would that help sales? Would it be easier to sell with or against this advantage?
Why wait until your competitor has the upper hand? It’s yours for the taking!
CERTIFIED FABRICATORS
BENEFITS
Each certified fabricator gets the backing of IAPMO with code officials, including
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Support | Access by telephone and in writing to UES engineers to get your questions answered |
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Website Listing | Listing on the UES website |
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Efficiency and Continued Customer Service | Timely completion of your certificate and continuing customer service. Our staff is available to answer your questions, and questions from consumers about your certificate. |
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Exceptional Value | Economical cost providing great value |
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Conformance | Conformance with Section 104.11.1 of the 2012 & 2015 IBC. |
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Code officials trust IAPMO and its Uniform Evaluation Services. As a model code agency, we are here to assist the code official in verifying code compliance. We are not affiliated with any manufacturing sectors. IAPMO Uniform ES has published evaluation criteria for precast concrete fabricators (EC22).
This criteria sets forth the information needed to document the fabrication facility’s quality system, including a schedule of surveillance inspections by qualified inspection bodies:
Locations
Multiple locations can be reviewed under one application.
Scope of Evaluation
The type of work (precasting, prestressing, welding, etc.) performed at each facility
Inspection Body
This agency, accredited according to ISO/IEC 17020, will provide recurring QA inspections
Audits and inspections
Content and frequency
Processes
Concrete mixing, placement, curing
Personnel
QC manager, inspector, technicians
Records
Details on inspection and testing reports
Maintenance
Updating and improving quality system
EASY AS 1-2-3
APPLICATION PROCESS
Just a few administrative steps will get the
dedicated staff of UES started developing your certificate
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Request Services | Fill out the application |
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Include Substantiating Data | Send in your substantiating data (manufacturer’s descriptive literature, test reports and engineer’s seal stamped calculations, installation instructions, and any other relevant information) |
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Payment | Submit payment of the basic fee |
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Assurance | UES staff will take it from there |
Please Contact UES for assistance with completing the application and/or determining fees. UES can also discuss the specifics of any part of the application or fee schedule to ensure we suit your needs.
SPEED TO MARKET
Provided that the incoming data is well organized, our staff has issued certificates in as little as 45 days, but most are issued within two months. Everything depends on how quickly you can respond to our questions and requests for additional information. Our goal is to respond to submittals in less than two weeks.