TUCSAmark Certification Program which forms the basis for TUCSAmark Structural Steel Compliance Certificate has been updated. A large and competent number of staff updated the program in approximately two years in order to make TUCSAmark certification system more efficient through the experience of fifteen years. Three radical changes have been made in the new TUCSAmark Program:
1. Structural Steel Training and Research Center Commercial Enterprise (YACEM) having a reputable status in terms of independency and impartiality has become the institution for certification.
2. Certification of not only TUCSA members but also all industry stakeholders in Turkey and abroad is aimed.
3. Auditing system for the technical, financial, health and safety, environment and quality competencies of the institution to be certificated has been revised to be more detailed and refined.
Therefore, a competency system to be benefited by the stakeholders listed below in order to have steel structures with more safety, quality and qualification:
- Public and private investor,
- Contractor,
- Installer,
- Designer,
- Fabricator/workshop owner,
- Material manufacturer and seller,
- End user.
New TUCSAmark Launch program, which was organized to share information on the benefits of the updated TUCSAmark Certification Program, has been the first step in which all details were delivered to those concerned.