Are you the client (Employer) wholly assured that the product is being constructed to the standards you expect of the contractors (Suppliers), are your representatives ensuring this is the case?**Those reports and quality assurance documents can be very misleading.**The higher the project profile, the greater the scope of works (SOW), the more aggressive the program, the higher the risk of failures.Fact.The more pressure upon the Leaderships, regards program or changes to SOW the risks will increase exponentially. Fact.Mike has served successfully as Project Quality Director & Senior Projects Quality Leader on numerous Mega Construction undertakings both in the UK and Saudi Arabia. Inclusive of Rail, HS & FRT / Riyadh Metro, Critical Infrastructure, Historical/Iconic, CCGT heavy Civils and VVIP (Crown Princes Private Affairs - CPPA) Project: USD c$1B - c$200B.Mike is academically qualified in Projects Quality Management with the benefit of >30 years of successful insight of the perils & pitfalls that can be encountered, as endorsed in the references, by others who are of very considerable standing in their areas of expertise. **Poor Quality construction/installation will require remedial or rework, affecting program, cost or quality. May substantially increase risk of failure, the associated outcomes in severity from inconvenience to catastrophic, full or partial closure of an asset. The cost of not having a quality product, where assets are high profile can be severe, negative media reports, reputational damage, and stakeholder reluctance to invest, or their withdrawal from investing further.Achievement.Whilst in Riyadh Mike gained the support of the then incumbent "His Excellency the Minister for Business & Commerce" to successfully affect identified need for change to the Saudi Standard for Steel Reinforcing Bar SASO ASTM A615/A615M+A1:2015 by the Saudi Arabian Standards Organisation (SASO).Dip.QM.