| dc.description.abstract | Construction quality management is one of the important goals in the construction industry, and the quality of the project depends on the level to which the contract specifications or the owner′s or the end-user’s needs are met in the project or not. Now, it pays more and more attention to the quality of construction project in Taiwan, and many laws and regulations for construction projects stipulate the quality of the project, quality audit and training of quality control. However, the quantification of construction quality using quality cost, described as an ideal and suitable quality performance measurement by researchers, has not been studied in the construction industry in Taiwan. Therefore, this study aims to first confirm the feasibility of quality cost in Taiwan’s construction industry and then takes flexible pavement construction as an example for demonstrating quality cost application. The study result indicates that quality cost model is feasible for being used in construction projects through literature review and domain expert interviews. In addition, it is also found that construction quality supervisors’ management ability can be quantified and evaluated by quality cost; that is, quality cost can be used to illustrate quality supervisors’ positive or negative influences on construction quality. In summary, the results of this study shows the quality cost model has its potential to be applied in the construction industry as a quality performance indicator, and the promotion of quality cost concept and the training of its application are necessary in the future for its full deployment in the industry. | en_US |