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FIDIC Improving the Quality of Construction

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Product Code: TD/FID/IQC
Quality of Construction or rather, the lack of quality, is increasingly being identified by consulting engineers as a serious concern worldwide. A lack of sustainability as well as potential health and safety problems in completed projects, and increase in the number of disputes and a failure to provide value for money in completed contracts are obvious outcomes of the lack of Quality of Construction.

Additional information

Weight 500 g
Author

International Federation of Consulting Engineers
Publisher

FIDIC
ISBN Number

0
Edition

0
Year

2004

page
preface
contents
1 introduction 1
1.1 Background
1.2 Best practice approach
1.3 A systems approach
1.4 Demand and supply side measures
1.5 Engineering is not value-free
1.6 Risks in lowest price procurement
2 Quality of Construction survey 3
2.1 FIDIC survey
2.3 The way forward
2.4 FIDIC vision, mission and objectives
3 policy and strategy 5
3.1 Parties
3.2 Scope for action
3.3 Policy statements
3.4 Principles
4 approach to quality 7
4.1 Policies and best practice
4.2 FIDIC contracts
4.3 FIDIC recommends the ASCE guide
5 recommended actions 13
5.1 Demand side actions
5.2 Actions by government
5.3 Actions by international agencies
5.4 Actions by industry
appendices 17
1 References
2 Non-Price Evaluation of Tenders