ABSTRACT
Experience has shown that the early recognition of bad quality and errors lowers the costs of error elimination. A mistake made in the phase of conception is multiplied up to 10 times when transposed to the subsequent phases. Late error recognition does not only increase the costs of a project but also effects the time schedule as well as the lifetime of a building. Therefore every building project needs sophisticated quality management to be technically and economically efficient.
The aim of this work is to show possible approaches to the quality management of building projects. It describes the present situation of quality levels in (general) projects as well as possible tools in quality assurance and quality control of (civil) projects.
