Home Innovation is Soliciting Members for Its Certification Impartiality & Oversight Committee

As part of our A2LA accreditation, Home Innovation is required to convene the Certification Impartiality & Oversight Committee as a mechanism for safeguarding its impartiality. The Certification Impartiality and Oversight Committee is to provide oversight and a mechanism to ensure impartiality to the ISO 17065 product certification programs of Home Innovation Research Labs. 

The Committee members are required to have no financial or commercial or other conflict of interest in the products being certified.

The committee consists of at least four (4) members:

• Two (2) being builder members of the Home Innovation board and 
• Two (2) members representing non-builder significantly interested parties including but not limited to: 
  • product manufacturers;
  • building code officials;
  • consulting engineers; and/or
  • appropriate staff of membership organizations representing those parties.

The President of Home Innovation shall be an ex officio, non-voting member of the committee.

The Committee will hold two meetings coinciding with Home Innovation’s Board of Directors meetings.

• At the first meeting (Aug 2023)
• At the second meeting (Jan 2024)

Home Innovation to reimburse committee members for travel, lodging and their time.

How to Apply: Please contact us to provide us with your resume to be considered for the Committee. 

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ABOUT: Home Innovation Research Labs, located in Upper Marlboro, Md., is a full-service research, testing, and consulting firm determined to improve the quality, durability, affordability, and environmental performance of single- and multifamily homes and home building products – in short, we aim to perfect the home. Founded in 1964 as a subsidiary of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), our team has been integral in solving many of our client’s most difficult product and technology issues, and helping to introduce some of the most groundbreaking innovations in construction. Through an interdisciplinary research approach – including market research, building science analysis, laboratory testing, and standards development – we help to find a home for innovation in the construction industry.

NOTE TO EDITORS ON STYLE USAGE: To identify this company and its work correctly, first reference should be "Home Innovation Research Labs." In subsequent mentions, “Home Innovation” should be used; we are not identified by an acronym. Prior to February 12, 2013, the company was known as the NAHB Research Center.