Standards and Credentials Method, not membership.

A supplier credential check on a detailing practice usually starts with the wrong question. The useful one is not which bodies the practice belongs to, but whether documentation is produced correctly against the standard a project names, and who carries the obligation when it is not.

What the practice holds

Stated plainly, because a diligence reader will check.

No AWI, AWMAC, BWF or FIS membership. No quality programme registration. No compliance certification issued, and no certifying authority held under any programme.

The practice is not a fabricator, and the quality programmes attached to architectural woodwork certify fabricators. A detailing supplier cannot hold them on a fabricator's behalf, which is why this page states the position rather than working around it.

Drawing general-notes block with the governing standard identified
The governing standard is stated on the sheet.

Standards work is detailed to

Work is detailed to the standard the project specification names, and what that standard requires is read from the document rather than assumed.

Standard
Where it applies
Detail
AWI and AWS
Most United States commercial and institutional woodwork
AWMAC, and GIS where specified
Canadian architectural woodwork
BS 1186 and BWF-referenced practice
United Kingdom joinery
Fire rating requirements
Where a specification imposes them
Seismic requirements
Where a project imposes them

Where certification actually sits

Four parties, and the practice is none of them.

The publishing body
defines what the standard requires. AWI, AWMAC and BSI publish; they do not certify a detailing supplier.
The fabricator carries the obligation
to meet the standard on the project the specification governs.
The certifying body or programme certifies the fabricator,
where a project requires it. That relationship is between the programme and the shop.
A qualified engineer carries professional responsibility
where a condition is structural. That boundary does not move.

What is checked instead

Since no credential is held, the useful assurance is method rather than membership.

Every deliverable is checked by someone other than the person who produced it, then reviewed by a named senior reviewer before issue. Checking runs against the standard the specification names and against the conventions recorded for the account. First-pass approval is measured and reported per account.

That method is set out in full on the QA methodology page, and in client-facing terms on quality and standards.

Standards and Credentials

What the practice holds, what governs documentation, and what is checked instead.

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