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Joining WACEL WACEL has three broad membership categories: Laboratory Members, Inspection Agency Members and Certified Members. A Laboratory Member is defined as an engineering firm with a laboratory that is operated as an independent organization managed and/or supervised by one or more full-time professional engineers and that provides technical testing, inspection, quality control and consulting services to clients in a manner which upholds the ethics of the engineering profession. An Inspection Agency Member is defined as an engineering firm or division of an engineering firm that is operated as an independent organization managed and/or supervised by one or more full-time professional engineers and that provides inspection, quality control and consulting services in a manner that upholds the ethics of the engineering profession. A Certified Member is defined as an individual who has met the requirements of a WACEL certification program. As a condition of membership, laboratory members must agree to have all of their laboratories in the WACEL service region accredited by WACEL or another program recognized by the WACEL Laboratory Accreditation Committee within 18 months of joining. Firms that are terminated for failing to meet this requirement can only rejoin upon submission of materials required for laboratory accreditation. Membership dues are based on the size of a firm as follows:
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