Measuring Quality of Construction Projects for Engineering Economic Analysis

This paper introduces a concept of measuring quality for engineering economic analysis to determine the best quality for construction projects. First, the quality of construction projects is defined and decomposed into component quality criteria. Next, the component quality criteria are quantified and the weights of relative importance level of each component quality criterion are determined. In this way, the value of the entire quality of construction projects can be consequently measured. Having measured the quality value, the engineering economic analysis can be applied and the optimum quality of construction projects will be determined by incremental quality value- costs ratio analysis accordingly.