- Author
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Davis, K.
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Ledbetter, W. B.
- Title
- Measuring Design and Construction Quality Cost.
- Coporate
- Clemson Univ., SC
- Report
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Source Document 30; Task Force 84-10
October 1987
126 p.
- Keywords
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construction
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costs
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design applications
- Identifiers
- quality performance tracking system; field trial of the Qaulity Performance Tracking System (QPTS) - preliminary work; relationship of cost of quality components
- Abstract
- Several troublesome challenges face the U.S. construction industry; productivity is down, litigation is up, delays are common and expensive, foreign firms are taking a greater share of the market. One important common factor is quality, or rather the lack of it, and its associated costs. To capture many of the important quality costs involved in design and construction, a preliminary quality performance tracking system (QPTS) has been developed. The QPTS is based on the concept of quality costs as developed in the manufacturing industry, and is designed to be compatible with quality management (QM) practices and cost and schedule systems used in the construction industry.