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Jun 14, 2021

Construction Management: Quality Assurance Requirements On Construction Site

 

AWARENESS OF QUALITY ASSURANCE REQUIREMENTS


The most impartment part of implementing any QUALITY ASSURANCE requirement needs to understand the intent and meaning of the quality. A brief description of the terms generally used related to QUALITY ASSURANCE are summarized below.

Quality Assurance Requirements On Construction Site




Quality: Totality of feature and characteristic of product or service that bears on its ability to satisfy stated or implied need.


Stated needs mean contractual needs.


Implies Need means – Identifies and defined needs i.e Usability, Safety,  Reliability, Availability and Maintainability.


Specification: Document that describes the requirement with which the product/service has to confirm.


It should refer to – pattern, drawing, or code. Or indicate the criterion by which checks to be made.


Checks used to confer the specification requirement.


Procedures. : An identified and defined sequential activities to perform the task is known as procedure. It is a specified way to perform the activity. It contains purpose and Scope, What, When, By Whom,  Where, How the activities to be done, Reference, Control Required and record to be maintained.


Inspection: Activities such as measuring examining, testing, gauging are made and compared with the standard to determine the conformity of requirement.


Quality assurance: Adequate and proper planning and systematic action is necessary to provide adequate confidence that the product or service will satisfy the given requirement for quality.


Quality Control: - The operational techniques are performed to full fill the requirement of quality.


1)  Monitoring a process.


2)  Removes causes of conformity at relevant stages to increase  economic effectiveness


Process: A set of interrelated resources and activates which transforms input to output.


Quality surveillance: The continuous monitoring and verification of the status of procedure, methods, conditions referred to as quality surveillance.  In relation to the stated reference to ensure that specified requirement is made.


Quality surveillance: Takes into accounts the areas of deterioration or degradation with time.


Quality System: It is defined as an organization structure management function that determines and implement quality policy.


Quality Management: It is an aspect of the overall management function that determines and implements quality policy.


Quality policy: It is defined the overall intentions and direction of an organization as regards quality formally expressed by top management.


Total Quality Management:

1)  It is a management approach of an organization centred on quality.


2)  Based on the participation of all its members.


3) Aiming at long-term success through customer satisfaction, and benefits to the member of the organization at safety.


Quality manual: - A document stating the quality policy and describing the quality system of an organization.


QA Plans: It is a systematic way of describing the extent and responsibility for checking and acceptance of various sub-activities with respect to defined references and specification.


Quality Audit: It is a systematic and independent examination to determine.


1)  Whether the quality activities and related result comply with the planned arrangement.


2)  Whether their planned arrangement is implemented effectively or not.


3)  Planned arrangements are suitable to achieve the objective.


Site the engineer must know that there is three Quality Assurance manual in our organization.

 

Topical QA manual:

A document stating quality policy and describe the quality system of the total organization.


Project QA manual:

A document stating quality policy and describe the quality system of a specific project in line with the requirement stated in the topical QA manual.


Specific work-related QA manual:

A document stating quality policy and describe the quality system of the agency executing the specific job/contract in a  project in line with the requirement stated in topical QA manual and  Project QA manual.


Site Engineer Also Must Ensure The Following While Supervising  The Work:


1)  Implementation of relevant specification required for the work.


2)  Implementation of work procedure for specific construction activity.


3)  Inspection and testing plan for the referred work.


4)  Ensure availability and use of proper approved construction material at the site.


5)  Ensure the deployment of qualified manpower at the site for various construction activities.


6)  Ensure concrete pour plan arrangement as per scheduled plan.


7)  Proper supervision during pre-execution, during concreting and post concreting.


8)  Ensure repair of defects/deficiencies, if found as per the approved procedure.


9)  Ensure appropriate documentation for the work.

 

 

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