If your project is in a coastal zone, a hurricane corridor, or anywhere an insurance underwriter is paying attention, Miami-Dade approval is what gets you through the conversation. It's the hardest building-code test in the United States. GigaCrete passed it — bring that to your next bid.
Miami-Dade County's product-approval program exists because South Florida takes the worst hurricanes in the country. To carry the approval, a product has to survive large-missile impact, cyclic wind-pressure, and water-intrusion testing that most assemblies never face.
For a specifier or contractor, that approval is shorthand. It tells the architect, the building official, and the insurance underwriter that the assembly has already been put through the hardest test in the United States — so the conversation moves forward instead of stalling.
We'll send the Miami-Dade approval paperwork and product data for your submittal package.