An experienced construction professional on a live site
Why QualiT

We’ve walked your sites. We’ve carried your risk.

QualiT wasn’t dreamt up in a tech office. It was built by construction professionals who got tired of watching good companies lose money — and good people get hurt — to avoidable quality failures.

The case

Quality isn’t a paperwork problem. It’s a knowledge problem.

Every defect starts the same way: someone, somewhere, didn’t know the critical fact that would have stopped it. Not because they didn’t care — because the industry has no reliable way of putting forty years of hard-won knowledge in front of the person laying the block on a wet Tuesday morning.

The people who hold that knowledge are retiring. The projects are getting more complex. And the cost of getting it wrong — in money, in reputation, in lives — has never been higher.

QualiT exists to close that gap: a platform that captures the industry’s best quality knowledge, peer-reviews it, and delivers it to the workface as facts, steps, focus and guidance.

The pressures

Six forces squeezing construction quality.

  1. 01

    The skills gap is real

    Experienced professionals are leaving faster than they can be replaced, taking decades of quality know-how with them.

  2. 02

    Projects keep getting harder

    Modern methods, tighter tolerances and complex supply chains mean more ways for quality to fail — and fewer people who’ve seen it all before.

  3. 03

    Margins leave no room for rework

    With margins of 2–3%, a single significant defect can erase the profit on a job. Avoidable errors cost the UK £10–25 billion a year.

  4. 04

    People get hurt

    Quality failures are safety failures. Work done wrong puts the people building it — and living in it — at risk.

  5. 05

    Reputations take years, defects take days

    One high-profile failure undoes a decade of good delivery. Clients remember who got it wrong.

  6. 06

    The regulator has moved

    The Building Safety Act 2022 requires dutyholders to prove competence and keep a golden thread of evidence. “Trust us” is no longer a quality system.

Regulation

The Building Safety Act has redrawn the line.

Since 2022, dutyholders must demonstrate competence, manage building safety risks and maintain a golden thread of information through design, construction and occupation. Reconstructing quality evidence after the fact is over.

QualiT builds your golden thread as the work happens — every check, sign-off and photo, timestamped and attributable. When the regulator asks how you assured quality, you show them, in seconds.

See how the platform works
QualiT project overview showing the golden thread of evidence
£10–25bn Lost to avoidable errors across UK construction every year
2–3% Typical industry margins — one defect can wipe out a job’s profit
2022 The Building Safety Act made a golden thread a legal expectation
With the right execution, a platform like qualiT would be a brilliant asset to the Construction Industry.
Barry Neilson OBE CEO, CITB NI

Be part of raising the standard

  1. Register your interest in QualiT for your business
  2. Or join as a contributor and pass on your experience
  3. Help take £25bn of avoidable errors out of the industry