IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/conmgt/v17y1999i6p799-809.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Quality practices in design organizations

Author

Listed:
  • Abdulaziz Bubshait
  • Gulam Farooq
  • M. Osama Jannadi
  • Sadi Assaf

Abstract

Design organizations play a major role in the construction industry: they are the media that transfer the requirements of the client to the contractor and ensure that they are met. Thus they need to provide a high quality of service to ensure that their client's project achieves the best possible standards of cost, time and quality. Seventy quality practices (QP) were identified as having a bearing on the quality of service provided by the local design organizations. These quality practices were grouped into fifteen sections termed quality sections (QS). The prevalence of these practices among the local design organizations was surveyed and determined. The results indicate a significant need for improvement in the quality sections 'working relationship', 'employee training and education', and 'performance quality audit'. The study reveals the need for the establishment of a design code, and evaluation standards for local design organizations.

Suggested Citation

  • Abdulaziz Bubshait & Gulam Farooq & M. Osama Jannadi & Sadi Assaf, 1999. "Quality practices in design organizations," Construction Management and Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(6), pages 799-809.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:conmgt:v:17:y:1999:i:6:p:799-809
    DOI: 10.1080/014461999371132
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/014461999371132
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/014461999371132?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:conmgt:v:17:y:1999:i:6:p:799-809. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/RCME20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.