Quality Assurance
Quality has become one of the most important consumer decision factors in the selecting among competing products and services. This is true not only for individual consumers but also for large corporations, government organizations and the taxpaying public as a group. In its broadest sense, quality is a degree of excellence: the extent to which something is fit for its purpose.
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Introduction to Quality Assurance
Construction Inspection
Construction inspection is the observation, testing and documentation of road work to confirm it follows the plans and specifications.
Quality Control
In a broad sense, every organization has a quality control program; in some manner, they assess production and construction and control their end product quality based on those assessments.
Acceptance
"Acceptance" is a formal procedure used to decide whether work should be accepted, rejected, or accepted at a reduced payment (Freeman and Grogan, 1998).
Independent Assurance
Independent assurance is the verification by a third party (not directly responsible for quality control or acceptance) of the product and/or the reliability of test results obtained from quality control and acceptance testing.