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Guarantee and Inspection Service
Guarantee and Inspection Service Forms
The History of the Guarantee and Inspection Service
The Mandate & Objectives of the Guarantee and Inspection Service
The GIS Guarantee
The Cost of the GIS Program
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Guarantee and Inspection Service

The Guarantee and Inspection Service (GIS) is an integral part of AWMAC’s ongoing effort and commitment to a credible and prosperous architectural woodwork industry.

Click the links below for further information on the Guarantee and Inspection Service:

AWMAC grades [PDF, 0KB]
FAQ [PDF, 0KB]
GIS brochure [PDF, 0KB]
Steps of the Guarantee and Inspection Service [PDF, 0KB]
Suggested specification wording [PDF, 0KB]

Guarantee and Inspection Service Forms

See below for the link to the pdf version of the following forms:

Final Inspection requst form [PDF, 0KB]
Material and Methods form [PDF, 0KB]
Request for Inspection form [PDF, 0KB]
Temperature and Humidity form [PDF, 0KB]

The History of the Guarantee and Inspection Service

After the implementation of the AWMAC Quality Standards manual, the architectural woodwork industry identified a need for a tool to monitor projects and assure that the woodwork supplied and/or installed would be in accordance with the Quality Standards.

As a result, in the mid 1990's the AWMAC Guarantee and Inspection Service (GIS) program was developed and adopted as a national program.

The Mandate & Objectives of the Guarantee and Inspection Service

The AWMAC GIS program, through its manufacturer members in good standing, offers a two year AWMAC Guarantee Certificate on projects which have the recommended GIS wording specified in the tender documents.

GIS Mandate

In order to ensure that the quality of materials and workmanship of the architectural woodwork specified are in compliance with the current AWMAC Architectural Woodwork Standards (AWS), the AWMAC Guarantee and Inspection Service program (GIS) must be specified and be considered an integral component of the scope of work.

GIS Objective

The objective of the Guarantee and Inspection Service are:

To assist the design authority in achieving "good architectural woodwork".
To offer the owner, customer, design authority and woodwork contractor an assurance that strict monitoring of the architectural woodwork requirements on a given project will meet the specified AWMAC standards.

The GIS Guarantee

AWMAC shall issue the Guarantee Certificate to AWMAC manufacturer members in good standing, certifying the architectural woodwork has been manufactured and/or installed in accordance with the standards incorporated in the Architectural Woodwork Standards (AWS) manual.

Subject to mandatory inspections and certain terms and limitations, the architectural woodworker (primary guarantor), AWMAC chapter (second guarantor) and AWMAC (third guarantor) will guarantee the architectural woodwork in a project for a period of two (2) years commencing on the date of issuance.

Non-AWMAC members will be required to furnish a two (2) year equivalent maintenance bond to the full value of the architectural woodwork contract.

The Cost of the GIS Program

The Guarantee Certificate is an integral part of the GIS Program and AWMAC will issue the Certificate of Guarantee for its manufacturer members in good standing at no cost.

The Inspection Service is administered by the AWMAC Chapter at a set fee. Please contact the Chapter in the region of the project location for the fee structure.