Your expert guide in building product testing, listing, and evaluation.

Let Us Be Your Guide & Advocate: Consulting Services for Building Product Manufacturers

Home Innovation Research Labs serves the manufacturers of commercial and residential building products who are seeking building code conformity evaluation reports and product listings. The credentialing process can be complicated, nuanced, and iterative. Home Innovation can serve as your guide to understanding all the twists and turns involved in the various certification and listing options.

Home Innovation Consulting Services

If you don’t know where to start, contact us to schedule a no-cost virtual meeting to discuss your needs. Our experts can provide valuable insight to determine your readiness to apply for an evaluation report, or a listing if that seems like a better path forward.

Regardless of the direction you take or the time it takes, you’ll need fully-developed product and technical specifications – these are prerequisites to acquiring any building code conformity determination. These must include:

A description of the product, product catalog, cut sheets, design or sizing charts, etc.
Listing of building code requirements and supporting third-party compliance data
Limitations and exclusions where the product should not be used
Installation manual
Use and care manual, where applicable
Definition of the manufacturing process including sourcing, control and documenting raw materials used to manufacture the product
Formal quality control process for the manufacturing process and marking/identification

Quality Assurance

Having a formal quality assurance (QA) system is a precursor to product certification or listing programs, but we know from experience that creating one can be a daunting prospect. To help our clients acquire the code conformity and certifications they seek, we have created an outline for setting up a QA system. Get in touch and we’ll send you this document that outlines the critical elements for a basic quality system.