Quality Control and Better Excellence for Performance of Energy Efficient Strategies in Contemporary Architecture

Abstract

It is very important to monitor quality in building industry as well as find a way to synchronies this quality to the price of the building. The main issue of paper is to find a quality assessment method for building industry which influence the price of the buildings, and encourage better quality and promote more qualified building constructors. The paper suggests contingent valuation method (CVM) as quality monitoring system for contemporary architecture of Iran. The paper shows that the use values involves commercial values, resources values, architectural variety values, environmental values, cultural memories continuity, aesthetic values, spiritual values and originality, social values and historical values. Regarding to this hypothesis, the paper analyze characteristics of CVM and operate it in contemporary architecture of Iran as case study. As FGD results emphasize, CVM was successful and is reliable as a quality monitoring system, however FGD results are more practical than CVM results.