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Become a Corporate Member
WHY BECOME A CORPORATE MEMBER?
Corporate Membership is for organisations with an Australian manufacturing facility regularly engaged in the production of factory-made precast concrete products.


BENEFITS AND ENTITLEMENTS
  • To network with and learn from other National Precast Members, at quarterly meetings and dinners.
  • To submit editorial for publication and be listed as a Member , PLUS receive 30 copies of National Precaster (circulation: 70,000 nationally) to support your own marketing.
  • To attend precast workshops at Member Rates.
  • To promote your company to architects, engineers, builders and developers, as an National Precast Corporate Member.
  • To participate in forums which change practices in the precast industry.
  • Referrals to architects, engineers, builders and developers.
  • Precast Concrete Handbook - 20% discount off the purchase price.
  • Website promotion on this National Precast website.
  • Regular emails, keeping you up to date with industry issues.

HOW TO BECOME A CORPORATE MEMBER

ELIGIBILITY for ADMISSION
 
  Eligibility for admission to National Precast Corporate Membership is in accordance with the Constitution of the National Precast Concrete Association Australia Limited and is based on the Board being satisfied that the following Certification criteria be met so as to uphold the standards and integrity of the Association:
  1. Wholly or partly engaged in production of factory precast concrete for minimum of 2 years.
  2. Adequacy of facilities appropriate for the product range marketed.
  3. Must be financially stable based on independent assessment and provision of 3 satisfactory credit references.
  4. Has commitment to service and resources utilising quality assurance methods and systems which meet customers requirements.
  5. Have OH&S systems compliant with all levels of Government legislations.
  6. Have a degree of technical and engineering competence to provide service ranging from advice , basic shop drawings etc on simpler projects to feasibility and engineering design on complex projects.
  7. Have at least legal and environmental permits compliance.

For criteria (3) to (7) above, the Board has determined minimum ratings which are required to be achieved as part of the precertification procedure.These are listed below in Table 1.

Admission to full membership is conditional on the following:

  • It is mandatory to satisfy criteria (1) and (2).
  • Scoring the minimum acceptable points rating in each of the Table 1 categories.
  • Scoring a minimum aggregate points tally of 24 to 50 points for all the Table 1 categories.
 
 
TABLE 1

Criteria National Precast Assessment Guidelines Score/Range Max. Score Min. Score

Financial Stability 1. Verification of 3 trade references
2. Independent Analysis
0 to 15 15 8

QA Third party accredidation to ISO 9002
Or
No 3rd party, but competent QA system
Or
No formal system , but demonstrably good quality
Yes/10

Yes/6

Yes/3
10 3

OH&S Formal system complying with government legislation
Or
System with essential legal elements
Yes/10


Yes/5
10 5

Technical competence Degree of technical and engineering competence to provide service ranging from advice, basic shop drawings etc on simpler projects to feasibility and engineering design on complex projects 0 to 10 10 5

Environmental compliance Has a formal environmental policy which is administered and audited
Or
Has all required statutory environmental permits
Yes/5


Yes/3
5 3

TOTAL     50 24

         
 
 
MEMBERSHIP FEES
 
  Corporate Member Fees are based on Member’s previous financial year’s gross $ ex-works sales volume as per scale hereunder. Note that ex-works sales excludes cartage and erection.  
 
Ex-works $ Turnover
  Applicable Fee (from 1/7/2006)


Up to $1mill
$1- $3mill
$3-$10mill
$10-$20mill
+$20mill
 
Flat Fee of $3,000
$3,000 + $1.50 per $1,000 over $1mill
$6,000 + $1 per $1,000 over $3mill
$13,000 + $0.75 per $1,000 over $10mill
$20,500 +$0.50 per $1,000 over $20mill

 
 
At the beginning of the fiscal year (July), current Corporate Members and Corporate Member applicants shall provide to the National Precast, a return of the company’s previous fiscal year’s annual ex-works precast turnover signed for by a Chartered Accountant. This information will be treated by the National Precast as STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL and will be used only by the Executive Officer for the purpose of calculating annual subscriptions in accordance with the formula above.

Note: New Corporate Members who are accepted into the Association after July will be entitled to a prorata fee based on the remaining months in the year applied to the previous year’s certified turnover. However, the minimum payment will be $2,000.
 
 
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD APPLICATION FORM
 
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