QUALITY CONTROL

CONSTRUCTION

P. Siva Nagaraju-10061AA038
J. Siva Raghav -10060AA020
T. Kiran Varma -10060AA053
 INTRODUCTION
 Quality Control (QC) in construction is the process
of verifying that the project is built to plan, that the
tolerances allowable by industry standard and
engineering practices have been met or bettered,
and that the finished project meet with the quality
standards of the architect, engineer, owner, and
general contractor.
 In general, it refers to the construction of any
building, with care taken to maintain or reach the
maximum level of quality. As a result of this, it will
help in reducing the extra building costs and will
ensure safety to the dwellers.
What is quality control?
 For construction projects, quality control means making sure
things that are done according to the plans, specifications,
and permit requirements.
 One of the best ways to assure good construction projects is
to use an inspector.
 The first step an inspector should take is to become familiar
with the plans, specification, and permit requirements and,
equally important, to have some common sense.
 Quality control during all construction phases needs to be
better, and the utility system needs to know what is being
installed while the work is being done. On most construction
jobs, the inspection is one of the last things to be done—if it
gets done at all.
 For successful completion of the project along with quality
construction, the use of good building materials and good
supervision is must.
 QUALITY MANAGEMENT:
 The quality management team consists of project manager,
superintendent, supervisors, inspectors, contractors, sub-contractors
and other quality control persons.

WHY QUALITY MANAGEMENT?

 The implementation of quality management and the Guidelines is
designed to encourage and assist:
 the management of projects and contracts by all customers and service
providers to achieve consistently the required outcomes
 a better customer service approach by service providers
 continual improvement in the delivery of project and contract
outcomes and
 a consistent approach by agencies in specifying, and service providers in
providing/implementing Quality Management Systems, Quality
Management Plans (including design plans), and Inspection and Test
Plans, and in monitoring their implementation
 On construction projects there are dozens of subcontractors,
all of which have specific responsibilities.
 Superintendents and project managers try to maintain high
quality standards but they can't be everywhere at once.
 In addition, a good general contractor or developer will have
on staff a QC person, someone who is responsible for going
through the building or project, ensuring compliance, and
maintaining an ongoing list of corrective items that must be
accomplished before the contractor.
 QC technicians generally keep a very detailed binder,
separated by areas/rooms/phases of the project with notes of
items that must be either verified or corrected, with sign-off
as each is accomplished. This binder becomes part of the
project record and is an important element to completing the
project on time and with expected quality maintained.
 QUALITY CONTROL
PROCEDURES
 The foundation for a successful Quality Assurance program is
the control maintained by the Contractor to assure that all
materials submitted for acceptance conform to the contract
requirements.
 To accomplish this, the Contractor is required to have a
functional Quality Control Plan (QCP) to keep the process in
control, quickly determine when the process goes out of
control, and respond adequately to bring the process back
into control.

QUALITY CONTROL PLAN

The Contractor is required to submit a QCP that is contract
specific and states how the process control of materials,
equipment, and operations are maintained.
 Quality of building materials
THE PROPERTIES OF A GOOD QUALITY BRICK:

 1. Colour:
The colour of good brick should be uniform. It may deep red, cherry or copper
coloured.
 2. Shape:
Bricks should be uniform in shape with sharp straight right angled edges.
 3. Size:
Size of the bricks should be standard as prescribed by Indian standards. [19cm x
9cm x 9cm]
 4. Soundness:
A good brick should give metallic ringing sound when struck with another brick.'
 5. Hardness:
A good brick should be sufficiently hard which can be tested by a finger nail. No
mark should be left on the surface of the brick when scratched with thumb-nail.
 6. Crushing strength:
The crushing strength of a brick should not be less than 3.5N/mm2
 7. Water absorption:
First class brick should not absorb water more than 20% of
its dry weight when soaked in water for 24hrs.
 8. Structure:
A good brick should show fine, compact and uniform
structure in broken form.
 9.Thermal conductivity & Fire resistance:
I t should have thermal conductivity. A good brick should have
adequate fire resistance. Ordinary brick can resist
temperature up to 12000C
 10. Strength:
Bricks should not break when dripped on hard ground from a
height of about 1m.
 11. Durability:
A good brick should be able to resist the effects of
weathering agencies like temperature, rain, etc.
Overview of Quality and Quality Management :-
 Quality means different things to different people.
E.g. Delivery on time, Meeting customers’ requirement,
productivity, reduced labor costs,meeting suppliers requirements,
competitiveness, branding, reliability, technology, Profit,fitness for
purpose/use, delighting the customer, good marketing/tendering,
functionality, compliance to specifications, meeting company goals
and objectives, commitments, etc
Overview of Quality and Quality
Management :-
Service Quality is,
Fitness of use/customer expectation,
Consistency to delivery (conformance) and
Design quality subject to Continuous
Improvement. Quality by design- before the
Product Line, In the PL, End of the PL
Overview of Quality and Quality Management
:-
 QM is the planning, organizing,
Controlling/Monitoring and directing of processes to
ensure the objective are met.
Whereas, TQM is more than QM in terms of system
approach, communications, commitment, policy,
culture, control, leadership (Oakland & Sohal1996) in
order to improve competitiveness, effectiveness,
focuses on prevention not detection.
Overview of Quality and Quality Management
:-
ISO 9000 QMS:
 Foundation for quality excellence
Documentation of Procedures
Consistency of Service Quality
Framework for Service Benchmarking
Basis for Knowledge enhancement
Continuous Improvement
CONCLUSION

 TESTING FOR QUALITY OF CONSTRUCTION

MATERIALS IS VERYIMPORTANT.
 OBJECTIVE OF TESTING
CONSTRUCTIONMATERIALS IS TO PROVIDE
AN ASSURANCE TO THE USER ONTHE
RELIABILITY OF THE MATERIALS. THUS,
CONSTRUCTIONMATERIALS TESTING
LABORATORIES MAKE A
USEFULCONTRIBUTION TO NATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THEESTIMATION
OF THE QUALITY OF CONSTRUCTION
MATERIALS.
Thank you