The quest for quality in public housing projects: A behaviour-to-outcome paradigm

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 147-158

  Liu, Anita M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Housing quality; ISO 9000; Performance; Post occupancy evaluation; Project outcome

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; STANDARDS;

POST-OCCUPANCY EVALUATION;

HOUSING;

HOUSING PROVISION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; SOCIAL HOUSING;

CHINA;

EID: 0038643585     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0144619032000049700     Document Type: Article

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