Quality Assurance and Control
As we will develop over the next series of slides, one of the chief purposes of Specifications is to delineate the Project's Quality, including definition, maintenance and determination of the specified quality.
In today's illustration, Queen Cleopatra of Egypt observes the effects of various fatal poisons on condemned prisoners. In an era of "extra-judicial" assassination, the speed and effectiveness of a poison was very important to a monarch. This careful testing ensured that only poisons of the proper quality and speed of action were procured for the royal assassins and executioners.
Modern construction technology involves a number of materials and processes which require detailed quality assurance and control before delivery to the project site or incorporation into the work.
As will be seen, the completed work result of one section becomes the existing condition substrate for the work result of the next. Quality Assurance and Control require careful coordination between sections and work results to obtain the proper results for the project.
We will review these Quality Assurance and Control measures, and how to specify them, in the forthcoming posts.
