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Appendix B: Glossary and Terms Related to Construction Quality
Pages 51-54

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... APPRAISAL. Activities employed to determine whether a product, process or sentence conforms to established requirements, including: design review, specification review, other documentation review, constructibility review, materials inspection/tests, personnel testing, quality status documentation, and post project reviews.
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... Changes may address design, fabrication, construction. and materially affect the approved requirements, the basis of design, the existing scope of the contract plans and specifications, or operating capability of the facility.
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... PREVENTION. Activities employed to avoid deviations, in cluding such activities as: quality systems development, quality program development, feasibility studies, contractor/subcontractor evaluation, quality orientation activities and certification/qualification.
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... QUALITY PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. A management tool prodding data for the quantitative analysis of certain quality-related aspects of projects by systematically collecting and classifying quality management costs.
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Key Terms

  • corrective action
  • quality management
  • service conforms
  • require corrective
  • management costs

  • activities employed
  • cost associated
  • performs inspection
  • personnel testing
  • currently established

  • status documentation
  • includes prevention
  • quality program
  • severity sufficient
  • activity involving

  • omission requires
  • assurance inspector
  • project reviews
  • constructibility review
  • adequate confidence

  • error requires
  • documentation review
  • documents conform
  • activity conforms
  • management tool

  • classifying quality
  • management activities
  • design review
  • appraisal activities
  • quality status


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