Case Studies in Innovative Quality Assurance Methods for Alternative Delivery Projects

This paper presents the results of a multiple-case study, designed to explore, reveal, and consider evolving techniques used for managing quality assurance systems, especially in cases of alternative forms of delivery, such as construction manager/general contractor (CMGC), Design-Build (DB), and Pubic Private Partnerships (PPP) forms. The study discovered many notable quality assurance methods, including methods that take advantage of design-phase contractor involvement and methods that respond to the increasing use of non-agency designers. The study of ten distinct projects that cross four different project delivery methods found eighteen notable quality assurance methods that generally are not applied in the traditional Design-Bid-Build (DBB) form of contracting. These methods exist in both the pre-award and post-award phases of the projects, and several of the methods were found to be used on more than one form of project delivery. These innovative quality assurance methods may be viewed as tools that a project manager should consider when developing a whole quality assurance system on either a traditional DBB project or on a project that uses one of the alternative forms of contracting. Or—these methods may be used as starting points for further quality assurance innovations.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AFH15 Project Delivery Methods.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Sillars, David N
  • Harman, Landon
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
• Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: 15p
• Monograph Title: TRB 92nd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Construction management; Construction projects; Design build; Public private partnerships; Quality assurance; Road construction
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Construction; Highways; I50: Construction and Supervision of Construction;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01472660
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 13-1695
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 19 2013 8:52AM