CMATS™  CMATS™ is a partnership between several organizations with an interest in promoting quality as it relates to construction materials that go into our infrastructure. CMATS™ was developed to facilitate the collection, sharing and reporting of “quality information” using contemporary information technology tools and to ensure wide spread availability of those tools to industry practitioners at a reasonable cost.

 CMATS™ has a variety of benefits for:

Owners:

• Test results can be integrated with payment calculations and project reports to help reduce cost
• Instant access to project data through the internet
• Allows for the identification of trends and statistical analysis for future development

Architects/Engineers:

• Ensures all construction team members are receiving quality assurance (QA) test data instantly and allows them to react appropriately to help reduce cost
• Instant access to project data through the internet
• Allows for identification of trends and statistical analysis for future development
• Optimizes material changes to ensure product quality
• Electronic storage of all project test data

Testing Companies:

• Eliminates paper handling costs (faxing and mailing)
• Standardizes reporting procedures for the industry
• Eliminates repetitive data entry and inefficient time-consuming communication on large projects
• Ensures that a secure electronic backup exists at a secondary off-site location
• Allows for electronic searches for specific test data
• Electronic information can be downloaded into existing computer systems
• Provides basic statistical analysis tools for clients
• Provides quality control (QC) features for ensuring quality of testing and product
• Allows for the storage of all completed project test data on a CD for storage by the testing company

Contractors/Material Suppliers:

• Ensures that the construction team has the necessary QA test data
• Shortens cost delay and increases job site reaction times
• Minimizes job site specification compliance issues
• Improves the quality of the finished product
• Allows multi-location access by multiple users
• Download features allows QA test data to be combined with QC test data for further statistical and
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Since the CMATS™ system is completely electronic, it will provide both test information and additional quality control tools instantly to all members of the project. There are specific advantages for the various people and companies from reducing overhead for owners, increasing quality assurance and quality control for architects, engineers and labs, to maximizing resources for contractors and suppliers.