The government should make post-occupancy evaluations (POE) a condition of housebuilders receiving Help to Buy payments, the president of the RIBA has said.

It should also be a condition of all publicly funded buildings, Alan Jones said today.

“We would all benefit from an approach that made it easier to learn from both successful and more troubled projects via post-occupancy evaluation,” he said. “To observers from other sectors, this sounds obvious. We need to embrace a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.”

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