A recent research study on quality in construction projects established the following Quality Problem Factors as the sources of quality defects.
Quality Problem Factors
Managerial/Stakeholder
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In a recent study rework costs (including labor, materials, equipment and subcontractors) can run from 2% to 20% of a project's total contract amount according to the Construction Industry Institute. These costs are of course eventually passed on to the customer as profitability shrinks.
The questions raised by this are:
What is your cost of rework?
and
What quality tools are you using to reduce those costs?
Some things to consider when evaluating your trade partners and creating a scorecard include the following:
Some of this data will already be available in other data tracking records (such as defects per home) others would have to be scored annually for example the...
In a recent study the following quality tools were found to be the most commonly and successfully used:
Of course using and linking all of these together in a coordinated manner creates the greatest leverage.
This study provides further evidence that that integrating quality tools and methods into green building creates greater leverage! In this study they found specifically that using the Baldrige Criteria helped to manage the LEED projects better. The...
