This article is devoted to the consideration of issues of reliability of building constructions in its qualitative terms from the point of view of a philosophical and organizational aspect. The argument of this problematic was carried out not through the prism of mathematical formulas, theorems and proofs, but through a set of verbal rules and their critical discussion. In particular, the basic verbal rules were formulated regarding the role of the design and reliability control services in the creation and testing of reliable structures. The meaning of verbal reliability of building constructions in the structure of the general theory of reliability is highlighted and the main components of this concept are given. Negative factors that hav...