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Forums | | Durability Protocol |
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dyoungkeit | Posted - 20 December 2002 10:47    The NAHB and HUD have a joint venture called PATH. They want a standard evaluation process for deciding whether a new product or process improves or degrades the durability of a new home. The evaluation process is called a protocol. Since spring of this year, the Protocol is being written and upgraded by teams of reviewers. The first team of reviewers numbered 400 nationwide. The second team of reviewers numbered 65. I was one of them. The conference in 4.5 weeks will have big wheel speakers from a broad spectrum of the housing industry. The promoters envision a non-binding evaluation method eventually becoming binding. The U.S. only scope is hoped to become an ISO 9000 international scope. I personally fought the whole thing. The most famous Quality expert of the century, William Edwards Demming, said that quality comes from responsibility, not protocol. He fought his lifetime to replace protocols with production teams. They know and can correct the weakest link of their products. Why pay a laboratory to determine the same knowledge? I promote the following for durability: http://www.gemshellhouses.bigstep.com/ Dean Youngkeit 21 North 100 East Willard, Utah 84340 (435)734 0681 young@brigham.net |