The Royal Institute of
British Architects (RIBA) President Ben Derbyshire, Chartered Institute of
Building (CIOB) Past-President Paul Nash, and Royal Institution of Chartered
Surveyors (RICS) President John Hughes have signed the Building in Quality: Joint
Memorandum of Understanding (JMU).
As part of this
agreement, the partners launched an industry-wide consultation on a proposed
system for establishing a chain of custody for quality in construction
projects, on the RIBA stand (C:10) at ecobuild.
Led by the RIBA’s
Client Liaison Group, the ‘Building in Quality’ initiative aims to encourage
better collaboration, improved procurement, and to introduce new methods to
improve the quality of the built environment for the benefit of society.
The signing commits
the three institutes to working together to agree and publish a 'Quality Risk
Tracker: setting up a chain of custody', to be launched in October 2018.
RIBA President Ben
Derbyshire said: “I am pleased to be working with colleagues in the CIOB and
the RICS to develop this new quality tracking tool to improve procurement and
building projects. Our initiative proposes intelligent new measures to
safeguard building quality, particularly for D&B schemes, and I am proud to
champion its integration. I encourage RIBA members and other professionals in
the construction industry to help shape this important tool.”
CIOB Past-President Paul Nash said: “Successful projects are built
on the back of strong teams working together to create great places for people
to live, work and play in. But they also depend on achieving the right
balance between cost and quality and, as recent events have highlighted, as an
industry we don’t always get that balance right. It’s for this reason that the
‘Building in Quality’ initiative is so important if we are to bring about the
change in behaviours that are so urgently needed.”
The consultation
process will run from April until end of June 2018 leading to a launch of the
'Quality Risk Tracker: setting up a chain of custody' at UK Construction Week from 9-11 October 2018.
