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Construction Leadership Council: cash retentions

August 26, 2024

A quality metric for construction projects – to reduce defects and help remove the need for cash retentions in contracts.

The Construction Leadership Council has worked with Actuate UK and the Get It Right Initiative (GIRI) to develop and test a proposal for a quality metric as a viable alternative to the withholding of cash retentions as a form of insurance against defects. GIRI funded the research project by the Centre for Design Engineering (C4DE) at Cranfield University.

A report has been published on the pilot project to test the proof of concept for this innovative work.

View the report here

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