by jbs030510 g3 — March 8, 2010—Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and ICC Evaluation Service, Inc. (ICC-ES) recently announced that building product manufacturer United States Gypsum Co. (USG) is the first to have products assessed through the new Dual Evaluation and Certification Program, receiving both the UL Mark for safety and ICC-ES Mark for code compliance.
The Dual Evaluation and Certification Program with UL and ICC-ES launched in December 2009 to help building manufacturers show compliance with both standards and codes, through one point of contact. It is designed to increase manufactured products’ speed to market and to provide safe, quality products.
USG’s Fortacrete Structural Panels were tested and certified to UL safety standards and evaluated to meet ICC-ES acceptance criteria. The complying products will be posted in UL’s Online Certifications Directory and Code Correlation Database along with ICC-ES’s online directory of evaluation reports, and will be embedded in ICC’s e-Codes Premium.
In addition to the Dual Evaluation and Certification Program for the building products industry, UL and ICC-ES also established a Dual PMG Listing Program to verify that plumbing, mechanical and fuel gas products comply with applicable codes and standards.
For more information, please visit the USG Web Site.
