{"id":87640,"date":"2021-01-19T12:18:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T12:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=87640"},"modified":"2024-06-28T10:50:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T09:50:48","slug":"get-it-right-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/get-it-right-initiative\/87640\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the \u2018Get It Right Initiative\u2019 and why does it matter to your business?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Darren Graham, marketing manager at Viewpoint<\/a>, explores the Get It Right Initiative (GIRI) and what it means for your construction business<\/h2>\n

Over the past few years, a number of high-profile building-related accidents and tragedies across the globe have put both construction safety and building quality under the microscope. In the UK, for instance, one has to look no further than the deadly\u00a02017 Grenfell Tower fire<\/a>\u00a0in London, where substandard building materials combined with failures of fire prevention systems were blamed for the fire\u2019s quick spread.<\/p>\n

Yet, even before that tragic incident, the construction industry has been on a mission to improve the way it builds \u2014 not just from a productivity and profitability standpoint, but from a quality perspective as well. A group of UK-based construction companies and clients is on the leading edge of this mission, having created the Get It Right Initiative back in 2017.<\/p>\n

What is GIRI?<\/h3>\n

Simply put, the Get It Right Initiative, or GIRI, is a group of UK construction industry experts, organisations and businesses actively improving productivity and quality in the construction sector by eliminating error. The initiative was born from discussions at the Institution of Civil Engineers Best Practice Panel, and the resulting non-profit membership organisation created a multi-disciplinary approach to tackling construction and design-related errors that affect quality.<\/p>\n

The GIRI has compiled significant industry research and issued a number of reports in recent years. It notes that construction errors cost the UK industry billions of pounds each year. In a study group of 17 major construction organisations, GIRI found that direct costs of avoidable errors are in the order of 5% of project value. This is higher than average profit levels across the industry and equates to approximately \u00a35bn per annum across the sector in the UK. However, when other factors were included, such as unrecorded process waste (6%), indirect costs (7%) and latent defects (3%), as much as 21% of project costs are wasted.<\/p>\n

GIRI members, which include clients, consultants, contractors, regulators, educators, professional institutions and trade organisations, want to change that and are all working together to:<\/p>\n