Formerly known Woodwork Institute of California, or WIC, the Woodwork Institute holds field offices in Oregon, California, Nevada, and Arizona, while servicing and providing standards throughout North America. The Woodwork Institute’s mission is to provide the leading standards and quality control programs for the architectural millwork industry through Architectural Woodwork Standards, our exclusive supplemental text The WI Approach, Certified Compliance, and Monitored Compliance Programs.

• Our Mission
• Our Vision
• Our Purpose

Mission

To promote to the architectural design community, its suppliers and contractors, the development and dissemination of information relative to uses, advantages, and utility of millwork products.

To provide the leading standards and quality control programs for the architectural millwork industry through Architectural Woodwork Standards, our exclusive supplemental text The WI Approach, Certified Compliance, and Monitored Compliance Program.

To be the premier, industry-driven, equal opportunity, nonprofit trade association resource provider for our membership.

Vision

Assurance Through Certification
The Woodwork Institute has created the following quality assurance programs to help maintain a superb level of quality from members of the architectural millwork industry. By working in conjunction with the design community, contractors, project managers, and installers/fabricators, and by setting the bar with the Architectural Woodwork Standards, these certification programs ensure that each project will be completed with attention to detail, exquisite craftsmanship, and adherence to the organization's standards.

Certified Compliance Program (CCP)
The Woodwork Institute's Certified Compliance Program is an established quality assurance tool for millwork projects used in conjunction with the standards contained within the Architectural Woodwork Standards. It provides an unbiased means for confirming the quality of millwork fabricated and installed to a particular project's plans and specifications.

Specifically, the Certified Compliance Program assures that shop drawings will contain the necessary documentation to confirm the project's design and quality intent; it advises the fabricator and/or installer of the designer's concern with, and requirement of, intent and quality; and it provides verification of compliance according to the designer's specified requirements.

To receive Woodwork Institute Certified Compliance, applicants should submit woodworking projects to the Institute for inspection. When specified, the Institute will inspect shop drawings, the fabricated product and/or installation process to assure that it complies with the Architectural Woodwork Standards and the project specifications.

Monitored Compliance Program (MCP)
The Monitored Compliance Program is utilized as the Woodwork Institute's quality affirmation tool. It expands upon the Certified Compliance Program by providing ongoing reviews and inspections of the project from its start to certification at its completion.

To ensure that the fabricated products and/or installations comply with the designer's specifications, the Woodwork Institute issues written progress reports throughout the duration of the project, affording all contractual parties timely notification of any non-compliant findings. Shop drawings, millwork products, and installations by all involved parties are progressively inspected for compliance to the designer's specifications, and to the Architectural Woodwork Standards.

Purpose

We at the Woodwork Institute purpose ourselves to:

• Develop and disseminate information relative to the uses, advantages and functional utility of wood products in all types of building construction.


• Carry out a sound promotional plan, the effects of which will increase public acceptance and greater use of wood products.


• Provide a well defined and legally constituted unit, whereby the collective action of its members may be obtained and registered.


• Foster good methods and ethical practices within the trade.


• Encourage peaceful and harmonious relations between its members, and by interested and cooperative efforts, promote and inspire public esteem for the members who deal in wood products.

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