Quality Control on Federal Construction Projects (1987) / Chapter Skim
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. During the same period, the military agencies, in an effort to help improve construction quality began requiring construction contractors on their projects to accept direct responsibility for controlling the quality of their own work under a concept known as contractor quality control (CQC)
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The Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Defense (1984) also found a sufficiently high rate of deficiencies on military construction projects audited in 1982 and 1983 "to warrant a concerted effort to improve inspections during construction." Because of concern about quality control on federal construction projects, many federal agencies have been exploring new ways (both technical and administrative)
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The sponsoring agencies of the FCC asked its Consulting Committee on Contract Management to undertake the project reported here to fill this information gap. OBJECTIVE AND PROCEDURES The committee's specific objective was to assemble information on the efforts of federal agencies to improve quality control on federal construction projects and on the results of those efforts.
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broad range of topics relating to the management of the Air Force construction program, including quality control. Pertinent comments of AF officers regarding quality control from that report are presented in this report.
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