International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395 -0056 Volume: 04 Issue: 01 | Jan -2017 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2017, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 5.181 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 1020 DEVELOPMENT OF BUILDING QUALITY MEASUREMENT TOOL: BUILDING CONSTRUCTION QUALITY INDEX (BCQI) Jogdand P.ME(C&M) Student ,Department of Civil Engineering, Trinity College of Engineering and Research, Pune 411048 Deshmukh S. S.,Department Of Civil Engineering, Trinity College Of Engineering And Research, Pune 411048 -------------------------------------------------------------------****---------------------------------------------------------------------- India’s economic development leads to an unprecedented increase in the pace of urbanization. In India, the rate of execution of construction projects has been increased to great extent from past few decades. This study develops and uses a tool, Building Construction Quality Index (BCQI). Developed index, BCQI can be used for checking degree of quality of building projects and benchmark for future improvement in quality. Developed index can also be used in comparing quality of building projects. This study adopts literature review, questionnaire surveys for data collection and application of developed model to measure construction quality of building projects. Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) has been adopted to determine weights of construction quality attributes. Since quality affects different aspects of project management, improvement in quality measurement in turn improves decision making of project management team. This study will contribute to improve construction quality measurement systems in developing countries like India. Keywords: AHP, project management, quality system. 1.INTRODUCTION As the urban population and incomes increase in India, demand for every key service such as water, transportation, sewage treatment, low income housing has increased in cities of every size and type. Increased competition among builders and construction contractors leads to reduction in cost of building projects. Architectural planning and provision of services also plays important role in achieving quality of building projects. Affordable/ Low cost houses have to be planned and organized considering healthy and clean environment with excellent sanitation and green area. These developments should be in close vicinity of workplace, shopping complexes and educational institutions Karim (2011). Thus architectural planning, public transport connectivity, drinking water supply, drainage systems, availability of services such as shopping markets, hospital and schools affects overall construction project quality and thus have been considered in this study. Cost and schedule parameters along with construction quality have been considered as project success parameters (Khosravi and Afshari, 2011).Yet very less weight has been given to construction quality in comparison with cost and schedule (Rwelamia and Hall 1995). Construction quality is equally important as cost and schedule parameters of project management Rad and Khosrowshahi (1998). It has been found that poor construction quality is responsible for cost and schedule overrun of the project (Love,2002, Round and ASCE, 1985). Other than schedule and budget overrun degradation of contractor, loss of trust and demoralization of employees are drawbacks of poor construction quality. Indian construction industry has not yet witnessed uniform and objective quality measurement system and construction firms practice their own developed standards/ methods for quality measurement. These developed systems mostly include checklists and are subjective in nature and have proved difficult in rating construction quality objectively. Construction quality measurement has been proved cumbersome task because of subjective nature of quality definition Rad and Khosrowshahi (1998), Minchin et al. (2008). This paper aims at development and application of simple, easy to implement building construction quality measurement model/ system based on model developed by Minchin et al. (2008) which can be uniformly accepted industry wide. By applying this developed model, one can measure quality of completed as well as ongoing building projects, which in turn can be used for comparing finished projects, tracking ongoing construction projects, and developing guidelines for construction companies for continuous improvements. The research has included literature review, identification of attributes and sub-attribute, calculation of attribute weights using AHP, Development of quality measurement system BCQI.