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Region 3 of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recognized in the early 1960s that improvements were necessary in highway construction specifications in order to meet increased work loads. The quality-assurance system was determined to be our best approach. Our first step was to determine what the critical construction problems were. In 1965 we sponsored our first workshop on formal training for highway inspectors. In 1968 we held our first quality-assurance workshop. FHWA has also encouraged and participated with the state highway departments in administrative contracts, highway research projects, experimental projects, and demonstration projects to assist in the development of quality-assurance specifications. Indications are that the quality-assurance system is working in practice.

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Construction; Demonstration projects; Highways; Inspectors; Quality assurance; Research; Road construction; Specifications; State highway departments; Training; Workshops

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Construction; Education and Training; Highways; Research; I10: Economics and Administration

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Oct 28 1981 12:00AM

• ANALYSIS AND APPLICATION OF CORRELATED COMPOUND PROBABILITIES
• CONSTRUCTION OF PITTSBURGH'S SOUTH BUSWAY: AN ENGINEER'S VIEWPOINT
• CONTRACTOR'S VIEWPOINT AND CASE STUDY OF PITTSBURGH'S $27 MILLION SOUTH BUSWAY PROGRAM
• Contractual Relationships--An Essential Ingredient of the Quality-Assurance System
• CONTRACTUAL REQUIREMENTS AND DESIGN PHILOSOPHIES EMPLOYED TO MINIMIZE ADVERSARY RELATIONSHIPS: EISENHOWER MEMORIAL TUNNEL, SECOND BORE
• MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE FOR PITTSBURGH'S SOUTH BUSWAY
• METHOD TO EXCLUDE THE EFFECT OF TESTING ERROR WHEN ESTIMATING THE PERCENTAGE DEFECTIVE OF A CONTINUOUS NORMAL POPULATION
• MINIMIZING ADVERSARY CONTRACTUAL RELATIONSHIPS FOR THE EISENHOWER MEMORIAL TUNNEL, SECOND BORE
• MINIMIZING POTENTIAL FOR ADVERSARY CONTRACTUAL RELATIONSHIPS DURING CONSTRUCTION OF EISENHOWER MEMORIAL TUNNEL
• OPTIMIZING STATE CONTRACTOR RELATIONS FOR IMPROVED QUALITY ASSURANCE
• PROCESS CONTROL IN PRACTICE
• QUALITY ASSURANCE--A SYSTEM IN PRACTICE
• STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLING FROM A DISCRETE POPULATION
• SUMMARY OF CONTRACTUAL RELATIONS: AN ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT OF THE QUALITY-ASSURANCE SYSTEM