Quality in Construction

• • Overview of Poor Building Quality and Quality Management
  • Cost of Quality
  • Key Components of Quality Management
  • Statistics in Quality Control
  • The Quality Manager
  • Total Management Quality
  • Introduction to Quality Standards for Construction Industry
  • Other ways to Achieve Improvement
  • Implementing Quality Management Systems

Equivalent subjects

You cannot enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• CUR-CME304-Quality in Construction

Special requirements

No special requirements

This subject was previously known as CME304 Quality in Construction.

This subject examines the importance of quality to the construction industries in Australia and internationally. The background, principles, components and frameworks of quality of various influential global quality management approaches are discussed. Students will apply standards of quality audits and certification to produce quality management system documentation for industry based scenarios.

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• Presentation (30%)
• Case Study (30%)
• Report (40%)

Current study term: 30 May 21 to 29 Aug 21

Next study term: 28 Nov 21 to 27 Feb 22