No one wants to produce a bad building and yet we have witnessed the scandal of the Edinburgh schools, significant and well-publicised failures by some of the major house builders, and of course the Grenfell Tower fire. There is a clear need for something that will shine a light on quality - at a bare minimum regulatory compliance - to bring it out from the shadow of the pressures of time and cost.

In response, the RIBA, RICS and CIOB’s Building in Quality initiative has launched a Quality Tracker, a free-to-download digital tool for project teams to use on developments. It comes with a template Memorandum of Understanding, a quality checklist, and a guide, and the whole toolkit will be piloted on real projects over the next six months. Clients and their project teams are invited to take part .

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