Quality Control and Quality Assurance In Building Construction

The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the use of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) as a management tool to benefit project managers. The United States building construction of Engineers is one of the largest construction management organizations in the world, annually performing over 3.5 billion dollars worth of work. The project manager has primary responsibility within the construction, to ensure the design both fulfils user's requirements and is prepared correctly, and that quality control/assurance procedures are correctly administered. QFD was developed and to improve quality and lower costs in industrial and business related fields, by assuring all of building construction operational decisions are driven by owner needs. It uses a set of matrices to relate owner wants and needs with project specifications and requirements.QFD assists project managers to clearly identify and prioritize owner and labour requirements in development of the conceptual and final design. It is best suited to projects involving repetition of units or when higher-than-average quality is demanded. Managers are able to make better informed decisions made during the delivery process, resulting in a better owner satisfaction. To testing of required building construction materials and to determine the quality and quantity of our required area of the building construction The CQAP details the systems and controls that GE has put in place so that the quality of the project will meet the requirements specified in the report. GE provides definition and overall management of the quality approach to be followed by its contractors and consultants. The quality of the RA implementation will be ensured through an integrated system of quality assurance performed by the Construction Manager and quality control provided by the contractors. GE's Construction Manager is responsible for the day-to-day Coordination of quality assurance and quality control measures in the field.