DQI USA, LLC is a socially responsible business dedicated to improving the quality and productivity of our built environment. The company is focused on enabling widespread use of the construction industry's first statistically validated design assessment tool, the DQI (Design Quality Indicator). The company was formed in 2006 to commercialize the DQI following its success in the UK, where it has already been applied to over 900 projects by more than 10,000 people. No longer is coming in on budget and on time good enough.

Now both the public and private sectors are being required to prove they are delivering buildings that are "high quality"as well. The DQI helps isolate and benchmark this elusive third pillar: design quality, enabling the delivery of high performance buildings that are innovative, fit-for purpose, foster productive work environments and are sustainable in the broadest sense.

The Design Quality Initiative is a measure originated in the UK that allows a construction project consisting of diverse stakeholders to assess the quality of a construction project's design throughout its various planning and design phases.

It brings important visualization tools and collaboration mechanisms to a process that is difficult to facilitate and often plagued with communication gaps.

Because of these lapses in communication, when Breakthrough launched the US version of this assessment service, we also built a prototype web app rendered on the iPhone for assessment delivery. As a mobile app, the Design Quality Initiative is accessible any time and anywhere to its users.