National Housing Quality Award
Frequently Asked Questions About Applying for the National Housing Quality Awards
Information, statistics, and FAQs on applying for the National Housing Quality Award.
Free Webinar: Lessons from the National Housing Quality Award Criteria
Celebrating its 25th year the US National Housing Quality Award (based on the US Baldrige Award) has helped builders to improve their…
Study showing the value of Baldrige based models (NHQA) on small (home building) businesses
The purpose of this paper is to add to the current knowledge of how and why small businesses should engage in quality management (QM) by providing…
Benchmarking US Home Builder Quality Metrics
By studying key quality metrics of 21 U.S. residential builders, the authors discovered most industry-leading…
Get it Right, a UK Construction Quality Effort
Construction errors cost the UK industry billions every single year. The annual spend due to error is estimated to be around 7 times the total…
When 50% of Home Builders went out of Business, 95%+ of NHQA Recipients are still IN Business
One example of the value and power of the NHQA is that while 50% of home builders went out of business between 2007-2012 over the 20 year +…
Business Management
Relationship Between Construction Safety and Quality Performance
Note that there's a strong positive correlation between rework and injuries
The Future of Quality
The imperatives for the future of quality management include
1. Driving strategic quality at both…
The Portal to Quality
The key barriers to Quality Management range from limited exposure to the concepts of Quality through to the off putting technical verbiage.…
March 2016 St Patricks Day: A Quality Quote from 1922
Striving for Quality is nothing new, it’s an ongoing journey. Here is a quote for St Patricks Day from Michael Collins.
“We will survive…