Title:
Understanding Alternative Quality Assurance Program in Innovative Project Delivery Environment

dc.contributor.author Liu, Lier
dc.contributor.committeeMember Ashuri, Baabak
dc.contributor.committeeMember Marks, Eric
dc.contributor.committeeMember Castro-Lacouture, Daniel
dc.contributor.department Civil and Environmental Engineering
dc.date.accessioned 2022-01-14T16:06:25Z
dc.date.available 2022-01-14T16:06:25Z
dc.date.created 2021-12
dc.date.issued 2021-05-04
dc.date.submitted December 2021
dc.date.updated 2022-01-14T16:06:25Z
dc.description.abstract High quality transportation infrastructure carries great value to society and economy in the United States. To attain better quality of the infrastructure, innovative project delivery methods have been applied by many projects, such as design–build (DB) and public–private partnership (P3), thereby requiring a new model for ensuring overall quality management. The innovative quality management model has been adopted by a lot of states to serve as an essential element of a quality assurance program (QAP), where a construction quality acceptance firm (CQAF), also named as an independent quality firm (IQF) is required. Despite the increasing acceptance of the new model, many states’ Department of Transportation (DOT) agencies, which are responsible for maintenance and development, still utilize a traditional project delivery method. A deeper and more comprehensive understanding is desired about how these innovative approaches of conducting quality assurance (QA) have developed in the construction engineering and inspection (CEI) industry. The objective of this research is to identify discrepancies in understanding the new model between CEI understanding and DOT expectations and offer guidance to promote the QA process in the innovative project delivery environment.
dc.description.degree M.S.
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/66046
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.subject CQAF, Quality Management, Transportation, Design-Build
dc.title Understanding Alternative Quality Assurance Program in Innovative Project Delivery Environment
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Thesis
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local.contributor.corporatename School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename College of Engineering
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thesis.degree.level Masters
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