Enterprise Quality Management: Process Quality Measurement in Construction

In the seminal book The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy Into Action[1], authors Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton highlight the following seven metrics for process quality measurement:

Process part-per-million defect rates
Yields (ratio of good items produced to good items entering the process)
Waste
Scrap
Rework
Returns
Percentage of processes under statistical process control[2]

The above seven metrics generally relate to the [...]

Series Part 2: Architect's Field Report and the Standard of Care

Progress, Quality, Deviations, Defects and Deficiencies…continued from Part 1 of the "at the point of construction" series

Contractor’s Field Reports. Field reports, also referred to as daily logs and daily details, for contractors and construction managers, are somewhat different than that of the Architect's Field Report. In addition to the areas described on the [...]