1.0 Background in construction project quality management

Along with economical trade globalization and market economy development, construction enterprises are facing new market competition. For construction enterprises, construction project quality is the key to the success of the construction. Therefore, it is particularly important to do well on the control of construction quality, especially under the condition of today's growing infrastructure construction in China.

The US-led western developed countries started early in the aspect of quality management. They have formed a sound quality management system and achieved significant effects. On the contrary, the oriental countries started late in this respect. In 1958 and 1959, the Swedish Government issued the "construction Law" and "construction Law Act" with the approval of the parliament. Then, the National Planning and Construction Bureau issued building regulations and codes. In order to strengthen quality control, an authoritative professional quality control committee was formed. It assisted the government to make a lot of quality control, achieving outstanding effects. French Government adopted legislation and economic means to make construction enterprises strengthen quality management, improve the quality of engineering and products. It has already formed a relatively complete system in such aspects as legislation, management, supervision and inspection. At the same time, it combines the mandatory inspection and enterprise self-inspection, and establishes a complete self-inspection system to ensure the engineering quality.

In 1958, China started to promote the use of mathematical statistics in some enterprises for quality management. In March 1980, State Economic and Trade Commission formally issued the "Interim Measures of Industrial Enterprises' Total Quality Management". This was implemented in enterprises in a timely manner, which greatly accelerated the pace of the implementation of total quality management. Since 1995, China has adopted GB/T 1995-ISO 9000 "Quality Management and Quality Assurance" series standards. The series standards integrate the world's advanced management experience, and describe the modern high efficiency management mode.

However, nowadays many enterprises in China still have oversights on the construction quality. Major construction quality accidents occur frequently, and there are a number of shoddy "jerry-built" projects, which cause huge negative influence in society. The Ministry of construction conducted quality and safety inspection on residential construction. It found almost 8? projects with hidden dangers among 10075 projects. According to the statistics of National Urban Housing Conditions by National Bureau of Statistics in 2007, the construction area of dangerous housing was 77.0321 million square meters. Though construction quality were improved to some extent in recent years, the ratio of unqualified projects is still very high. Therefore, it is a topic worth studying on how to strengthen the control of construction quality so as to improve and guarantee the quality of building products.

 

2.0 Aim and objectives

2.1 Aim

The aim of this study is to further strengthen China's projects quality management, thereby promoting the development speed of China's construction industry. At the same time, it also provides reference for other related enterprises on project quality management.

 

2.2 Objectives

• Analyze the present situation and existing problems of enterprises' project quality management.
• Through the establishing the quality management system of construction projects, further demonstrate the importance of quality control and management.
• Case study: through analysis on real project, find out the main reasons affecting the construction quality.
• Make strategies and recommendations to improve project quality management.

 

3.0 Scope of study

Scope of study mainly include: investigation and analysis aim at China's current construction project quality management; then on the case of Shanghai Sheshan Villa construction project of Shanghai Greenland construction Ltd., conduct critical analysis and discussion on the strength and weakness of project quality management in the construction stage.

 

4.0 Literature Review

In order to conduct a research on project quality management of China’s construction industry, it is extremely necessary to review relative theories and previous researches on project quality management. As