Warranty Specifications for Highway Construction Current Practices and Evolution to Advanced Quality Systems Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Advanced quality systems (AQSs) are emerging as a framework for integrating and coordinating processes, specifications, modeling and analytical tools, testing technologies, databases, and educational capabilities that aim at improving highway construction quality. A comprehensive review of warranty specifications is presented and put in the context of AQS. Key driving factors of warranty specifications in the United States are identified; actual statewide warranty specifications for design-bid-build projects and project-specific warranty specifications for design-build projects are summarized, the concepts and elements of an AQS are laid out, and research needs for advancing warranty specifications within the context of AQSs are assessed.

published proceedings

  • TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH RECORD

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • Gharaibeh, N. G., & Miron, A. G.

citation count

  • 1

complete list of authors

  • Gharaibeh, Nasir G||Miron, Alberto G

publication date

  • January 2008