What is Quality Control and Quality Assurance?
Before exploring intelligent compaction, it is important to understand the function of Quality Control and Quality Assurance, as well as recognize the difference between them. Quality Control can be defined as the procedure by which a contractor develops, utilizes, and documents Quality Control activities that govern how a project element is constructed. Restated, this means Quality Control is essentially the processes implemented by a contractor to ensure that production meets project specifications. Quality Assurance can be defined as the procedure by which the engineer/project owner monitors the contractor’s Quality Control activities and performs assurance monitoring and/or testing for final acceptance of all project element construction. Simply put, Quality Assurance oversees the contractor’s Quality Control procedures to ensure that they are acceptable, as well as provides final proofing that production meets project specifications. What is intelligent compaction? While a univers
