Canada, Toronto & GTA A different standard, not a lighter one.

AWMAC conventions, not AWI applied to a Canadian project.

The Architectural Woodwork Manufacturers Association of Canada publishes its own standards, and the grade definitions, tolerances and construction requirements are not interchangeable with the American ones.

Guarantee and Inspection Service obligations understood.

Where a project specifies GIS, the fabricator carries obligations around inspection and remedy, and those affect what the documentation has to demonstrate.

Both units in circulation.

Canadian projects use imperial and metric, sometimes on the same job, depending on the design team and the product. The package has to be consistent within itself and correct for the project.

Institutional and public procurement rigour.

Education, healthcare and civic work here is tendered and reviewed carefully.

AWMAC publishes the standards that govern most Canadian architectural woodwork, with its own grade structure and construction requirements.

Guarantee and Inspection Service. Where a specification calls for it, the programme imposes obligations on the fabricator around inspection and remedy. Those carry cost and process implications, and they belong in the estimate rather than being discovered.

We detail to the standard your project names and report what it requires. We hold no membership of AWMAC and we are not an inspection authority.

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AWI applied to an AWMAC project.

The most common failure and the most avoidable, and it is usually invisible until review.

GIS obligations unpriced.

Inspection and remedy requirements read as background on a project that specified them.

Units mixed within one package.

Particularly on projects where the architectural set and the product data disagree.

The governing standard unstated on the drawing.

A reviewer left to infer which document the set intends to satisfy.