Contractual Relationships: An Essential Ingredient of the Quality-Assurance System and Other Quality-Control Papers

摘要

The fifteen (15) papers in this report deal with the following areas: contractual relationships--an essential ingredient of the quality-assurance system; quality assurance--a system in practice; process control in practice; overview of quality-assurance program; optimizing state-contractor relations for improved quality assurance; summary of contractual relations: an essential ingredient of the quality-assurance system; contractual requirements and design philosophies employed to minimize adversary relationships: Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel, second bore; minimizing adversary contractual relationships for the Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel, second bore; minimizing potential for adversary contractual relationships during construction of Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel; management strategies for quality assurance for Pittsburgh's South Busway; Construction of Pittsburgh's South Busway: an engineer's viewpoint; contractor's viewpoint and case study of Pittsburgh's $27 million south busway program; analysis and application of correlated compound probabilities; method to exclude the effect of testing error when estimating the percentage defective of a continuous normal population; stratified random sampling from a discrete population.