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... 1 Project Background and Objectives In response to shrinking budgets and dramatic reductions in both the numbers and experience levels of inspectors and engineers, several state departments of transportation (DOT) are seeking ways to achieve greater efficiencies in quality management, often targeting current practices that may be either disproportionate to what is needed to ensure a quality product [e.g., does a concrete sidewalk warrant the same level of quality assurance (QA)
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... 2 Guidelines for Optimizing the risk and Cost of materials Qa Programs This literature review effort was supplemented by an industry survey of 37 state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and individual interviews conducted with 8 DOTs.

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