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Does this, in practice, mean quality? The aeroplane industry doesn’t do this and they build safe craft.

Aerospace industry has a deeply engrained culture of safety, and improving from failure. Construction industry has a history of building to bare minimum requirements, organized crime involvement, corruption, and passing the buck when anything goes wrong.

I dunno, I'd say there's a very long tradition of safety in construction.

"If a builder builds a house for someone, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built falls in and kills its owner, then that builder shall be put to death." (Code of Hammurabi)

I look at that the other way.

The need for effective regulation and proper enforcement come with a long tradition in construction business.

FAA certified mechanics and inspectors are held personally liable regardless of who they are working for and what they are working on.

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