The death spiral of testing and inspection in construction

January 31, 2011 rockman Journal Article Reviews Comments Off on The death spiral of testing and inspection in construction
Concrete slump test

Concrete slump test

This is a commentary written by Jaye Richardson, a materials operation manager with AMEC Earth and Environmental, Inc. It appeared in CE News in August of 2010, but I just came accross it in CENews.com’s top 10 of 2010 list. He offers some very interesting insight into the decline of the materials testing and inspection business into a purely cost-driven business with little emphasis on the ‘quality’ in QA/QC. He has a great writing style too, highly recommended! [Source: CE News. Image: HEA on Flickr]

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