FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 2, 2008

San Diego , CA — Stan Luhr, Quality Built’s CEO, has been nominated to be an examiner in the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards for 2008. This prestigious honor for interviewing the nation’s top companies in manufacturing, healthcare, services and non-profit organizations is Quality Built’s first such appointment.

The Baldrige Award is given by the President of the United States to businesses—manufacturing and service, small and large—and to education, health care and nonprofit organizations that apply and are judged to be outstanding in seven areas: leadership; strategic planning; customer and market focus; measurement, analysis, and knowledge management; human resource focus; process management; and results.

Congress established the award program in 1987 to recognize U.S. organizations for their achievements in quality and performance and to raise awareness about the importance of quality and performance excellence as a competitive edge. The award is not given for specific products or services. Three awards may be given annually in each of these categories: manufacturing, service, small business, education, health care and nonprofit.

While the Baldrige Award and the Baldrige recipients are the very visible centerpiece of the U.S. quality movement, a broader national quality program has evolved around the award and its criteria. A report, Building on Baldrige: American Quality for the 21st Century, by the private Council on Competitiveness, said, “More than any other program, the Baldrige Quality Award is responsible for making quality a national priority and disseminating best practices across the United States.”

The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) manages the Baldrige National Quality Program in close cooperation with the private sector.

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About Quality Built
Quality Built® is the largest provider of quality assurance services in the nation, operating in 28 states and serving over 170,000 units in production. More than 2,000 builders, including 17 of the 20 largest homebuilders, have relied on Quality Built for reducing construction risk. In 2006, Quality Built consultants gathered 12 million quality checkpoints and 2.27 million digital photos on 75,359 new homes. Quality Built has received publication of three U.S. patents on its processes and achieved ISO 9001:2000 registration in February—the first of its kind in the U.S. for such a firm. More information may be obtained at www.qualitybuilt.com.

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