STUDY ON NEGLIGENCE OF QUALITY ASSURANCE AND PROPOSING AN EFFECTIVE FRAMEWORK FOR TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Dharani K, Ganapathy Ramasamy N

Abstract: Quality plays an integral part in the construction industry. Quality assurance is needed because of the involvement of negligence in a project which deduces the quality of the construction .In order to build customer confidence the quality of its work should be done according to the developed quality assurance program. This paper focuses on various negligence of quality assurance practices in the construction industry. The objective of the project is to analyze the various factors that affect quality and quality assurance and to provide an effective framework for the total quality management which helps to increase the quality performance of the construction industry. This project includes a set of questionnaires about quality, quality assurance and total quality management prepared and distributed to various companies and then analyzed. With the help of analyzed data’s a total quality management framework has been proposed to reduce the negligence of quality assurance in the construction industry.

Keywords: Quality, Quality Assurance, Total Quality Management and construction etc…

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0402084