SCI Product Certification

With over 30 years of expertise in the sector and with the SCI Assessed scheme already recognised, SCI Product Certification has been developed to serve the steel industry better than anything currently on offer.

Increasingly, government and public sector bodies are specifying requirements for accredited, robust third-party certification.

The scheme will:

• Help manufacturers differentiate their products and gain acceptance in the market

• Help meet the requirements of warranty providers such as NHBC, Premier Guarantee and LABC etc

• Provide confidence to specifiers, end-users and other interested parties that the products fulfil specified requirements. We believe that the offsite construction market will grow significantly in the coming years, not only because of its ability to solve the critical need for more housing, but more generally because of its fit with the Government's Transforming Construction agenda. We have therefore been developing SCI Product Certification for the following products:

• Individual structural elements

• Cladding and roofing

• External wall systems

• Light steel framing systems

• Modular building units. Following positive comments received from UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service) during the accreditation pre-assessment carried out in the latter half of 2018, SCI is currently working with a number of manufacturers to test the robustness of our complete certification process. This is in readiness for the formal assessment by UKAS in June.

SCI hope to be in a position to issue the first certificates later this year. For more information on the scheme visit: www.scicerts.com