Automation of processes, in combination with quality assurance, is an important development in civil engineering. One of the critical components of quality assurance relates to geometry. In order to determine and control geometric elements, measurement and evaluation processes of engineering geodesy must be integrated with construction processes. The quality of products and processes is a complex, multi-faceted field and this complexity is considered here by a new model that describes quality on the basis of characteristics and parameters. The model that has been developed for engineering geodesy processes in civil engineering has been applied to describe the quality of the geometry of a building.