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| Foreword | |
| Introduction | |
| Construction quality and its achievement | |
| Building well | |
| Meaning of quality | |
| Quality at the building level | |
| BRE study: A survey of quality and value in building | |
| Importance of the design brief | |
| Further reading | |
| The role of the client | |
| The Stuttgart gallery and Frankfurt museum | |
| The Grand Louvre, Paris | |
| The Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery | |
| The importance of total quality management | |
| Further reading | |
| Quality in traditional construction | |
| Achievement of long-term quality in buildings, mainly from the 1930's | |
| Changes in specification during construction | |
| The place of innovation | |
| Different time scales of structure and services | |
| Further reading | |
| Achievement of quality in social housing: a BRE investigation | |
| BRE investigations into non-traditional housing | |
| The route to faultless building | |
| Achievement of faultless building | |
| Standards and standards-making in the UK | |
| Consensus and the generally acknowledged state of art | |
| User interests | |
| British Standards as aids to quality in construction | |
| Effective information transfer: standards as aids to communication | |
| Achievement of quality through management | |
| Quality system standards and quality assurance | |
| BS 5750 and the BS EN ISO 9000 quality system series of standards | |
| Quality assurance in design and construction | |
| Quality systems in Europe | |
| Further reading | |
| Fitness for intended use | |
| The agrement concept | |
| Agrement in UK | |
| European technical approvals | |
| Design lives and serviceability | |
| Environmental quality | |
| Further reading | |
| The Single European Market | |
| The single market and the New Approach directives | |
| The nature of European Union legislation | |
| Types of European legislation: directives, regulations, decisions, recommendations and opinions, case law | |
| Up-dating European legislation | |
| Technical specifications and CE-marks | |
| Further reading | |
| Construction products directive | |
| 89/106/EEC | |
| The Directive | |
| Delays in bringing 89/106/EEC into effective operation | |
| The arrangement of 89/106/EEC | |
| The importance of 89/106/EEC | |
| Essential requirements | |
| Interpretative documents | |
| Classes in technical specifications | |
| Implementation of 89/106/EEC | |
| Further reading | |
| European standards and technical specifications : Standards for a Single Market | |
| Global features of standards | |
| Categories of European standards | |
| Harmonised European standards(HENs) | |
| Non-harmonised European standards(ENs) | |
| Conformity attestation procedures | |
| Conformity attestation under 89/106/EEC | |
| Approved bodies | |
| National standards during the transitional period | |
| Structural Eurocodes: a particular type of European standard | |
| Further reading | |
| The procurement and other directives | |
| European public procurement legislation | |
| Enforcement in UK | |
| Other directives: the problem of overlapping requirements | |
| Further reading | |
| Achievement of construction quality in six countries | |
| Denmark: Byggestyrelsen - the Danish National Building and Housing agency | |
| The Danish Building Defects Fund | |
| Federal Germany: IFBT (the Institute for Building Technology) | |
| France: The French construction industry and its technical environment 3 | |
| The French building research centre - CSTB (Centre Scientifique et Technique du Batimat), Agence Qualite Construction | |
| The Netherlands: SBK Stichting Bouwkwaliteit, the Foundation for Buiding Quality | |
| Building quality arrangements at government level | |
| Sweden. The United Kingdom: BRE Building Research Establishment | |
| BSI British Standards Institute | |
| Further reading | |
| Some unresolved issues | |
| CE marking | |
| Least onerous possible procedure | |
| Factory production control | |
| Fitness for intended use | |
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