In day-to-day construction management, what is quality control primarily concerned with?
Correct Answer
A) Checking and controlling the work so it conforms to the contract requirements
Quality control is the contractor's active process for checking, controlling, and correcting work so it meets contract requirements. Other choices bypass the documents or postpone defects.
Why This Is the Correct Answer
Quality control is the contractor's active process for checking, controlling, and correcting work so it meets contract requirements. Other choices bypass the documents or postpone defects.
Why the Other Options Are Wrong
Option B: Replacing the contract documents after award
In general project requirements, Replacing the contract documents after award is the wrong selection for Quality control: it leaves out the controlling Quality control result: Checking and controlling the work so it conforms to the contract requirements.
Option C: Avoiding all inspections to save time, leaving quality control unverified
The trap in C is Avoiding all inspections to save time. That selection is wrong because the choice would not get the project to Checking and controlling the work so it conforms to the contract requirements, which is the Quality control result verified by the source; Quality control checks and controls work to meet contract requirements.
Option D: Limit quality control to shifting every deficiency to final payment only
Choice D gives Shifting every deficiency to final payment only. Its specific error: it tries to bypass the Quality control checkpoint.
Memory Technique
Make quality control a purpose cue; if the choice changes the purpose, it cannot be Checking and controlling the work so it conforms to the contract requirements.
Reference Hint
Open Construction Jobsite Management, 5th Ed.; use the index entry or section for "Quality-control management" to confirm that Quality control is the contractor's active process for checking, controlling, and correcting work so it meets contract requirements.
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