CARES
CARES is the leading independent international reinforcing steels product assessment body delivering confidence in the performance, provenance and quality of safety-critical reinforcement products entering the construction supply chain. We create value by reducing supply chain risk; achieving governance objectives; enhancing environmental performance and, through our digital certification and conformity assurance services, we facilitate the construction of safe structures, while ensuring projects are delivered to programme.
With an impressive 40-year track record of providing assurance to users, designers, consultants and specifiers CARES’ data-led inspection and certification services deliver priceless transparency into sustainability characteristics of reinforcing steels moving across complex supply chains. The digital backstory of these products enables accurate measurement of products’ carbon footprint, giving clients a complete understanding of their provenance – vital in achieving their net zero ambitions.
Clients and specifiers choose CARES-approved reinforcement suppliers with confidence that the product will comply with relevant reinforcement standard without the need for costly, on-site testing. Since our formation in 1983, CARES product certification has set a proud international benchmark, specified on thousands of projects in the UK and around the world. We operate from offices in Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia as well as the head office in the UK.
We are actively involved in many cross-industry initiatives; and the CARES senior team are highly regarded and influential in driving the assurance of constructional steel products, while meeting the needs of the most demanding construction clients. Our diverse and extensive network in the regulatory, steel and construction sectors, and the built environment, enables us to deliver better value to construction clients by transparency into the provenance, product quality and sustainability characteristics, including the carbon footprint, of reinforcing steels moving across complex supply chains. Our vision and mission statements are:
Vision
Wherever reinforcing steel is specified a CARES approved company shall produce, process, and supply the reinforcing steel.
Mission
To make the CARES assured reinforcing steel supply chain the safest, most effective, efficient, digital and sustainable in the World.
To ensure all reinforcing steel products are quality assured, responsibly sourced and evidenced by CARES Digital Assurance Records.