The ISO 9000 family of quality standards has been adopted world-wide as a framework for building better relationships between suppliers and customers. Originally a manufacturing-industry concern, quality is now acknowledged to be a key issue for the construction sector whose clients increasingly demand quality certification. This book explains the concepts and practice of quality assurance and management in construction. Clearly written and well illustrated, with plenty of sample quality system documents and other pro-forma, this book will make the daunting task of developing, implementing and managing a quality system a great deal easier for contractors. This is practical guide for building and construction contractors and sub-contractors, project managers and other construction professionals. Also for undergraduate and postgraduate students of building, construction management and project management.

Quality is a vital issue to be addressed by all constuction professionals working in Europe today. This book provides clear, concise guidance to the making and use of codes, regulations and technical specifications in Europe.

The proceedings of the CIB W65 Symposium on the Organization and Management of Construction conference are presented here and in the companion volumes as state-of-the-art papers documenting research and innovative practice in the field of construction. The volumes cover four broad themes: business management, project management, risk management, IT development and applications. Each volume is organized to provide easy reference so that the practitioner can speedily extract up to date information and knowledge about the global construction industry. Managing the Construction Enterprise (Volume One): Covers the firm and its business environment, markets and marketing, human resource management strategic planning, and quality management. Managing the Construction Project (Volume Two): focuses upon productivity, procurement, international projects and human issues in relation to management performance of construction organisations. Managing Risk (Volume Two): incorporates discussion of risk away from regulation by government and those safety risks inherent in the construction process. Managing Construction Information (Volume Three, published in conjunction with Construct IT Centre of Excellence): incorporates material on information systems and methods, application of IT to the design and construction processes and how IT theory and applications are best transmitted to students and practitioners. The work represents a collation of wide ranging ideas and theory about construction and how research has contributed to the development of the industry on a global application of research to the problems of the construction industry.

La loi Spinetta du 4 janvier 1978 réglemente la responsabilité des constructeurs, le contrôle technique et l’assurance construction pour laquelle elle a instauré une double obligation d’assurance : – une assurance dommages-ouvrage, qui oblige le maître d’ouvrage, en cas de sinistre, à proposer le préfinancement de la réparation, son assureur recourant ensuite contre les assureurs des constructeurs ; – une assurance de responsabilité, imposée aux constructeurs, qui couvre les éventuels dommages causés aux tiers. Cet ouvrage décrit ce régime et retrace ses évolutions. Il présente ainsi l’état actuel du droit de l’assurance construction, droit technique au croisement du droit de la construction, du droit civil et du droit pénal et qui demeure complexe puisque s’écartant progressivement du droit commun de l’assurance. Organisé en deux parties consacrées à l’obligation d’assurance décennale, d’une part, et à l’assurance dommages-ouvrage, d’autre part, L’assurance construction permet de maîtriser les obligations d’assurance qui incombent aux différents intervenants ainsi que d’arbitrer entre les différentes assurances complémentaires facultatives. Toutes les subtilités de la police dommages-ouvrage (DO), de la responsabilité civile décennale, de la police tous risques chantier (TRC), de la police unique de chantier, etc. y sont ainsi détaillées. De nombreuses solutions permettent de prévenir les contentieux. Illustrée de nombreux exemples jurisprudentiels, l’analyse s’appuie sur les arrêts de principe, cités et commentés, pour chaque thème abordé. L’ouvrage est complété par la reproduction en annexe de l’historique de la notion, de l’ensemble des textes législatifs et réglementaires, relatifs à l’assurance construction, issus du Code civil, du Code de la construction et de l’habitation et du Code des assurances ainsi que par la Convention de règlement de l’assurance construction (CRAC) et son avenant n° 1.

This collection draws on international comparisons from the main industrialized countries in a key area - the construction industry. This genuinely internationally focused book has contributions from leading experts and academics in the field