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Quality in construction is too important to be left to chance. Engineers must educate owners to insist upon a quality control plan, comprehensive inspection and a competent testing program.

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  1. Civil Engineering Magazine,James J. O’Brien author, February 1986, pp. 48–49, used with permission.

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  2. ASCE, “Manual for Quality in the Constructed Project, A Guideline for Owners, Designers, and Constructors,” Volume 1, 1988, p. 62, used with permission.

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  3. ASCE, “Manual for Quality in the Constructed Project, A Guideline for Owners, Designers, and Constructors,” Volume 1, 1988, p. 62–63, used with permission.

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  4. ASCE, “Manual for Quality in the Constructed Project, A Guideline for Owners, Designers, and Constructors,” Volume 1, 1988, p. 160, used with permission.

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O’Brien, J.J. (1989). The Need for QA/QC. In: Construction Inspection Handbook. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1191-2_1

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