sentences:  In 2004 the DQI received recognition from the British Institute of Facilities Management for the role of involving users in the design process.The DQI tool was made available to users in the United States in 2006, and an online American version was launched on 20 October 2008.Unlike its forerunner the Housing Quality Indicator (HQI) system devised for the UK's Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) by the consultancy DEGW and published on open access in February 1999, the DQI system instead could be used only by approved facilitators.