Assured Steel Certification

ICDAS is one of Turkey’s leading steel, manufacturers and has been making significant contributions to the country’s economy by producing structural steel and alloy steel since 1970. Our Degirmencik Integrated Plant in Biga, Çanakkale features three steel plants with a capacity of 4,5 million tons/year and four rolling mills with a capacity of 4.1 million tons/year of which 2.7 Mt is constructional steels and 1.4 Mt is wire rod.

“Corporate responsibility and sustainability management are of great importance to us. For this reason, ICDAS has been a strong supporter and early implementer of the CARES SCS program.” says Mustafa Balci, Process Quality Control Manager.

The company operates a Management System that complies with the requirements of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 27001 and ISO 50001. It has implemented many projects including Sustainable Water Management, Conservation of Biodiversity, Renewable Energy Production and Reduction of Steel Slag.

Social responsibility is also of primary importance for ICDAS. It has constructed 1 Nursery School, 1 Primary School, 1 Science High School, 2 Vocational and Technical Anatolian High Schools and 1 High School Campus to facilitate education and healthy, self-confident, team spirited youth and provides scholarships to students. It also supports the development of young people in the region through the ICDAS Sports Club.

The company has long contributed to the development of Anatolian Cultural History by sponsoring excavations at the ancient cities of Troia (Troya), Parion, Apollon Smintheion, Assos, Alexandra Troas, Maydos Kilisetepe Tumulus and Gürecealti.

The Thames Tideway Tunnel is a major UK infrastructure project - a 25km Super Sewer under the River Thames, which is 70% complete - to intercept more than 95% of sewage overflows into the Thames, cleaning up the river for the good of the city, river users, wildlife and the London community.

Tideway have mapped their 54 Legacy commitments against 10 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) and 27 targets. It recognises that fulfilling the ambitions of the SDG’s to achieve a better future for all by 2030 will take an unprecedented effort by all sectors of society.

SDG 12 seeks to ensure responsible consumption and production. In terms of responsible sourcing of materials, Tideway requires that 100% of key building materials (cement, aggregates, steel) are certified to either BES 6001 Responsible sourcing of construction products or CARES Sustainable Constructional Steels (SCS) Scheme, as applicable. For more information see Tideway Sustainable Finance Report. 

Capital Reinforcing is a UK based reinforcement fabricator with the capability of producing over 5000 tonnes of cut and bent steel reinforcing bar per month. It operates a Management System that complies the requirements of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and the relevant CARES Quality and Operations Assessment Schedules to ensure it meets the regulatory and customer requirements in respect to the supply of steel, mesh and associated products.

Sustainability is increasingly important to Capital Reinforcing’s customers and so it uses its approval to the CARES SCS scheme and BES 6001 to demonstrate its management of environmental, ethical, social and economic impacts and performance and as a structure for improvement. “Capital Reinforcing is committed to not only managing these impacts but also using the resources we have to make a real and sustainable difference” said Colm McAleer, HSEQ and Sustainability Manager.

Mace is a global consultancy and construction firm which always seeks to find a better way to shape the built environment. Mace recognises its responsibility to create opportunities for communities to thrive, sustainably, which is reflected in its strategy based on three priorities: Pursue a sustainable world; Grow together; and Deliver distinctive value. As such, responsible procurement is key to its projects and typically reinforcing steels have a critical role in them. The London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI) estimates that approximately 50% of emissions in buildings are from the transportation and manufacture of construction materials. The upfront ‘embodied’ emissions in constructional steels are a high proportion of these.

To enable Mace to meet its own and its clients demanding Net-Zero commitments it needs accurate Global Warming Potential (GWP) data. For reinforcing steels this relies on the data from Environmental Product Declarations (EPD). Mace uses CARES approved EPD’s to get the information it needs. At the design stage it knows it can use the CARES sector average EPD to estimate the GWP of a project. During construction it enhances this based on the actual materials procured and the specific supplier EPD. CARES now offers additional transport GWP data to ensure it is as accurate as possible. Not content to rest, Mace understands the importance and opportunities of digitising the construction industry and has been working with CARES to pilot the digital exchange of key quality and GWP data.

Reinforcing steel is a safety critical product. The overall aim of certifying products is to give confidence to all interested parties that a product fulfils specified requirements.  The value of certification is the degree of confidence and trust that is established by an impartial and competent demonstration of fulfilment of specified requirements by a third party.

The confidence in the CARES certified products is delivered by the effective operation of Product Certification Schemes including Technical Approvals and post-tensioning installation schemes

Clients and specifiers can specify CARES-approved reinforcement suppliers (Manufacturers and fabricators) with confidence that the product will comply with the relevant reinforcement standard without the need for costly, on-site testing.

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The CARES sustainable constructional steel (SCS) scheme provides a means by which companies in the reinforcing steel supply chain are able to declare product and organisational level sustainability performance and achieve credits in the green building rating systems such as BREEAM and LEED and infrastructure rating systems such as CEEQUAL. 

Accurate, accessible and timely information on the environmental and social impact of using different materials is increasingly important for designers, contractors and procurers to satisfy green building and infrastructure rating systems. These systems award credits based on the environmental impact of materials and for materials responsibly sourced, aiming to encourage the use of materials with lower environmental impacts over their lifecycle, and to recognise and encourage the specification of responsibly sourced structural materials. 

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The CARES Cloud is a digital ecosystem consisting of the CARES Upstream Cloud, CARES Downstream Cloud and complementary Apps.  

The Upstream Cloud enables Steelmakers to publish CARES digital records to the CARES Cloud.  The CARES digital records contain the product information – Standard – Grade – Size – Chemical, mechanical properties and the sustainability credentials, including the carbon footprint. 

The CARES Downstream Cloud enables the reinforcement fabricator to receive the rebar from the CARES approved steelmaker, process it and allocate it to the project.  The project team, normally a sub-contractor, will receive the rebar from the fabricator to complete the chain of traceability from the manufacturing source to the site. 

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