Cliff Smith interviewed in Building Engineer magazine

GIRI executive director Cliff Smith was interviewed in Building Engineer magazine in April 2024 for an article by Matt Lamy that considered how the construction industry currently manages quality and what it needs to do to improve.

“In the construction industry, we have a number of organisations that are interested in improving quality, but what GIRI does is aim to avoid error in the first place. We don’t go around checking things to see if they are right; our objectives are more often achieved through thinking about what is going to happen before a project begins," said Cliff.

Cliff was one of a number of industry experts featured in the article, along with Paul Nash, Chair of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) Quality Implementation Group, Barry Cope, Group Managing Director, Building Compliance Testers Association, and Daniel Hicks, Technical Research Manager, National House Building Council (NHBC).

You can read the article here.

Article first published in Building Engineer magazine, April 2024. Reproduced with kind permission from the Chartered Association of Building Engineers.