Development of Construction Quality Assessment Model for RCC Footing

Any constructed facility should conform to predetermined quality standards and specifications in order to serve the purpose of a facility. It should satisfy the owner's quality needs, expectations and aspirations about the constructed facility which are the key objectives of a contractor. But unfortunately, most of the times it is a common issue that constructed facilities fail in satisfying the predetermined quality standards, specifications and owner's expected level of quality. This is mainly because of ignorance and misconception on the part of owner's representative who accepts sub-standard. Most of the present methods of quality audit being subjective in nature, there is an emergent need to develop a comprehensive, rational, sensible and objective post occupancy quality measurement model for a constructed facility which would give a clear idea about how contractors are using resources and attaining desired workmanship. The present study was undertaken to develop construction quality index model for a RCC footing of Nashik region in India. The developed model would be helpful in examining the quality level achieved by a RCC footing and to compare the RCC footing as well as contractors. This model would remain as prime basis for rating the quality of RCC footing and contractor’s ability in providing quality facilities.