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A new report from carbon and margin-saving ConTech platform QFlow (Qualis Flow), has revealed a shocking 91 per cent of construction-related documentation continually fails to meet basic quality standards.
The “State of Data Quality in Construction” report, based on over six years of data from more than 1 million documented deliveries and waste removals, uncovers safety risks, missed sustainability targets and financial inefficiencies, with the sector unnecessarily haemorrhaging resources due to bad information management.
This problem has a profound negative effect on achieving increasingly strict sustainability goals. The report found that currently, only a third (34 per cent) of material records are accurate enough to support embodied carbon calculations, leaving most emissions reporting across the sector incomplete or unreliable.
Almost all of product delivery records contain significant data issues (95 per cent), ranging from missing weights and invalid locations to inconsistent supplier IDs. These deficiencies not only obscure carbon performance but are a huge non-compliance risk. echnical necessity, it is a fundamental requirement for the future success of the construction industry. We need more quality over quantity. You can collect as much data as you want, but if it’s not accurate, it’s useless.
Responding to the results, Brittany Harris, CEO and Co-Founder of QFlow, says, “Improving data quality is not just a technical necessity, it is a fundamental requirement for the future success of the construction industry.
We need more quality over quantity. You can collect as much data as you want, but if it’s not accurate, it’s useless. We’re seeing project after project burdened by bad data that undermines compliance, inflates costs, and introduces unacceptable levels of risk. It is no longer sufficient for construction firms to collect data passively; we must now move to a system of: curate, verify, and operationalise it to meet the regulatory and societal demands of the next decade.”
Read the full State of Data Quality in Construction report here.
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