Latest news from Kiwa

The following article was published as a feature article in the June/July 2025 issue of Trenchless Technology magazine, authored by T2 Utility Engineers’ Shauna Weinmann, PE and Aline Melo LeBlanc. The article highlights the intended value as well as the limitations to be aware of when choosing Utility Mapping for documenting underground utilities. The authors provide an overview of additional methods to consider for damage prevention and best practices for Horizontal Directional Drilling as well as professional insights. The full article is below, and here is the link to the digital Trenchless Technology article.

Raba Kistner and T2 Utility Engineers have been recognized in ENR’s 2025 Top 500 Design Firms list, reflecting their strong performance and continued impact in the engineering and utility sectors across North America.

Kiwa is expanding its presence in the US by welcoming California-based Sequoia Consultants to the group. This strategic partnership strengthens Kiwa’s expertise in construction quality control and testing services for the transportation sector, supporting infrastructure projects with trusted, high-quality solutions.

Kiwa has today announced that it is expanding its global presence, following an agreement with Element Materials Technology (“Element”), through the addition of NQA (USA, UK and India), the management systems certification division of BM Trada (UK), Unitek (USA), the technical services division of Trialon (USA), and the remaining 50% stake in SNQA, a joint venture partner (China). These businesses bring Kiwa additional expertise across a wide variety of markets and throughout the global Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC) sector.

Kiwa PVEL is excited to announce the release of the 2024 PV Module Reliability Scorecard, marking the tenth edition of our annual report. This year’s Scorecard features 388 top-performing PV module models from 53 manufacturers, showcasing the best of what’s commercially available in solar technology.

Kiwa is pleased to announce the integration of our key solar businesses, including PVEL and PI Berlin North America. This strategic alignment enhances our ability to ensure the quality, safety, and reliability of solar products, supporting the renewable energy transition. By combining our expertise, we better serve the evolving needs of the PV industry and facilitate compliance with regulatory standards.

In the realm of food safety, the market is flooded with various certification programs designed to guarantee the quality and safety of food and beverage products. The sheer multitude of choices can pose a daunting task for producers seeking the most suitable certification. This is where ASI Food Safety (member of Kiwa Group) comes in. ASI is here to simplify the complex landscape of certification.

PPI Quality & Engineering, a Kiwa company headquartered in Houston, Texas, provides professional engineering, quality assurance, and auditing services to the energy industry clients around the world. Read all about PPI’s evolution of energy services, and their services for the global supply chain in our latest article.

PI Berlin and PV Evolution Labs ( members of the Kiwa Group) will join forces at RE+ in Las Vegas, Nevada from the 11-14th of September. We invite you to visit booth #7433 and talk to representatives from both companies about the value and importance of properly managing quality in the solar industry.

Buyers around the world rely on PVEL’s Product Qualification Program (PQP), a series of extended reliability tests, to help inform procurement decisions. Learn more about the PQP program, and how it helps mitigate risk for the solar industry.

Next month from August 14th-16th, @ASI Food Safety is hosting a Virtual 3 Day PCQI Training, FSMA Preventive Controls for Human Food. This training is designed to provide professionals with the ability to develop and implement effective food safety plans, perform risk assessments, and maintain compliance with regulatory requirements, such as the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) principles.

T2 Utility Engineers, member of the Kiwa Group, is celebrating 30 years of providing Subsurface Utility Engineering services. Thanks to the support of clients and the work of our outstanding team members, T2ue provides Subsurface Utility Engineering and related services for more than 2,000 projects each year from 26 offices in the United States and four offices in Canada.

Kiwa announced the merger with ASI LLC to strengthen Kiwa’s United States footprint significantly in providing Food, Feed & Farm certifications.

The revised ISO 27001 standard for information security has been published on 25 October 2022. The updated standard has been aligned with ISO 27002:2022 and includes some technical corrections.

As of 14 October 2022, Kiwa Group (Australia and North America) and CMW Geosciences have merged. CMW Geosciences joins the growing family of Kiwa businesses in the Asia-Pacific region including Construction Sciences, SureSearch, Trilab and Geochempet Services.

One of the ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to capture and store or use released CO₂. To do this efficiently and safely, additional knowledge is needed. Kiwa has invested in new facilities to investigate and test with high pressure CO₂.