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Professor Love argues that a different approach is required to Construction Quality - Quality II

CQA Chairman looks at what Construction Quality Australia (the CQA) has achieved over the past twelve months.

This year's World Quality Week focus theme is: “QUALITY: realising your competitive potential”.

The water-shedding principal is that all parts of a building contribute to control water.

The CQA has developed a standard coding schema that the whole industry can use.

An investigation by Building and Energy into the mass failure of plumbing pipes used in hundreds of new homes in Perth

We all know the difference between Cause and Effect - or in the case of construction, cause and DEFECTS.

The Construction Industry's Prevention Action systems are all about risk-based up-front Planning.

Author: Tom Symonds, BBC Building regulations were "faulty and ambiguous" in the run-up to the Grenfell Tower fire, Housing Secretary...

Operating in a global market, large amounts of construction products and materials are sourced from overseas.

Residential housing built over the past three years will suffer from quality issues that will lead to litigation if the builders aren’t will

Black mould is being uncovered in the walls of defective apartment blocks, in what experts describe as an "absolute catastrophe".

Alarming footage from a 35-storey building on fire in Dubai has placed the spotlight on cladding on the outside of the residential apartment

Today’s buildings benefit from many innovations that have increased the speed of construction and allow almost unlimited design freedom....

Australian YMCI will lodge a $3 million security with the NSW government to guarantee the rectification work.

World Quality Week is an annual campaign celebrated by the CQI, which raises awareness of the quality management profession globally.

Some of the most significant root causes for errors include poorly communicated design information and ineffective communication.

Many waterproofing issues stem from the fact it has traditionally been viewed in isolation from the broader building design.

Australian builder Mirvac has recently used prefabrication to cut build time by almost 25 per cent and reduce labour hours by 11 per cent

Often European visitors will complain of being colder in Australia than back home because the standard of construction here is so poor.