STUDY ON QUALITY ASSURANCE AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN HIGHRISE BUILDING CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

Md Afsar Ali, Masoom Reza

Abstract: Due care is taken in the success of highrise building construction project, quality is the significant factors, and who is responsible for Managing ,Performing and verifying the quality related activities at Project Site. Every year a significant amount of the budget is spent for maintenance on highrise building construction project. The main objective to identify and evaluate the major factors effecting quality control measure of building construction projects in India. For analyzing the major factors for quality control measure in building construction project, adopting literature review and questionnaire surveys are used to assemble data. For the questionnaire survey Likert Scale (five point scale) is used for rating the opinions. The five point scale is transferred to Relative Importance Index for each factor. Afterward adopting Pareto analysis to evaluate the major factors for improving the quality in building construction project. A case study on Group Housing Residential Apartment project, Gurgaon has been undertaken to compare the result. This research identifies twenty major factors, in which the quality of workmanship is one of the major factors focus in construction site for improvement of quality followed by inadequate technical expert, not maintaining proper Design mix and other factors. From this research , by adopting Pareto Analysis(80-20 Rule) found that 80% quality problem measure/ improve by implementing 20 major factors on site. Further 20 % quality problem improve by implementing remaining factors.With improvement of quality of project, save time and cost.

Keywords: Quality Management, Quality Assurance, Quality Plan, Quality tools, Relative importance index and Pareto analysis.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2017.0605003