IQI — Infrastructure Quality Initiative
A Whole-Quality Initiative for Infrastructure
Making Infrastructure Quality
Visible
IQI — Infrastructure Quality Initiative
Infrastructure includes the assets, facilities, networks, and systems intended to perform defined functions across their life cycles.
IQI applies the Whole Quality methodology to infrastructure as a Quality Object. The Infrastructure Standard — Core establishes common requirements for determining Infrastructure Quality, while Context Guides specify applicable Quality Outcome Criteria and Reference Layers for particular infrastructure contexts.
IQI develops voluntary, non-regulatory standards and guidance supporting evidence-based Quality determination, including Quality Factors and Indicators, Quality States, and responsible Quality Claims.
The common Core applies across infrastructure types, including energy systems, data centers, residential buildings, bridges, and water systems. Context Guides provide the requirements and Quality Outcome Criteria specific to each application.
A Whole Quality Approach to Infrastructure -
Locally and Worldwide
1. See the whole Infrastructure Quality Object.
2. Apply the Core requirements and applicable Context Guides.
3. Understand how Quality is realized across the infrastructure life cycle and through
its actual operation and delivery of required results.
4. Determine the Infrastructure Quality State using the declared Reference Layer and sufficient evidence.
5. Make only bounded, responsible Quality Claims.
About IQI - Infrastructure Quality in Practice
IQI is a volunteer-run public initiative that develops a common framework for understanding, determining, and responsibly communicating the Quality State of infrastructure.
Its Infrastructure Standard – Core, controlled vocabulary, Context Guides, and supporting resources are voluntary and non-regulatory.
They do not constitute engineering supervision, regulatory enforcement, certification, legal compliance, or approval of any infrastructure object or Quality Claim.
IQI is an applied initiative of the Whole Quality Institute (WQI).
