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News and updates from the Infrastructure Quality Initiative.

 

 

New IQI Platform Publications Now Available

 

June 2026

 

The Infrastructure Quality Initiative — IQI — is now available as a platform under the Whole Quality Institute — WQI.

 

IQI applies the WQI approach to infrastructure systems by describing infrastructure quality as an observed, evidenced, and bounded quality state of an asset or system across its lifecycle.

 

The IQI platform now includes:

 

Foundational articles

 

  • Why Infrastructure Needs Quality Standards

  • Infrastructure Quality Vocabulary

  • Infrastructure Quality in Energy

 

Infrastructure quality articles

 

  • Infrastructure Quality vs Funding

  • Infrastructure Quality & Technology

  • Infrastructure Quality & Asset Worth

  • Determining the Infrastructure Quality State

 

Core standard documents

 

  • Reader Guide

  • Infrastructure Quality Standard — Core

 

Context Guides

 

  • Natural Gas Main Pipeline Transportation Infrastructure

  • Natural Gas Local Distribution Network Infrastructure

 

These publications provide a practical framework for connecting quality factors, indicators, evidence, lifecycle conditions, monitoring, uncertainty, and bounded quality claims.

 

Download and related publications are available on the IQI website.