7 types of audit in a construction site

1. Preselection or prequalification audit

2. Third party audits for certification purpose
3. Project internal audits
4. Specific internal audits from parent company
5. Audit by client or client representative
6. Internal “mini-audit”, surveillance audits
7. Work audits

Test for blockworks usually done in UAE

1. Dimension test
2. Compression test
3. Water absorption test

Tests done on concrete

1. Slump tests and temperature tests at the plant and upon arrival at site location
2. Compressive strength test
3. Water permeability tests DIN 1048 at 28days
4. Rapid chloride penetration test at 28 days
5. Water absorption test BS1881-122 at 28 days
6. Initial surface absorption test BS 1881 – 208 at 28days

Key components of a Project Quality Plan

1. Introduction
a. PDCA
b. Risk based thinking
2. Normative References
3. Terms and Definitions
4. Context of Our Organisation
a. Scope of our Quality Management System
b. QMS Process Management
5. Leadership Responsibility
a. Quality Commitments
b. Quality Policy Deployment
c. Roles and Responsibilities
d. QMS Management Representative
6. Planning
a. Risks and Opportunities Management
b. QMS Objectives, Key Performance Indicators
c. QMS Change Management
d. Knowledge Management
7. QMS Support

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 a. Resource Management
b. Competency Management
c. Training Management
d. Management of Communication
e. Management of Documented Information
8. Management of Operations
a. Planning of Product and Service Realization
b. Customer Related Process
c. Design and Development
d. Control of External Providers
e. Production and Service Provision
f. Release of Products and Services
g. Post Construction Activities
h. Control of Non-Conforming Output
9. QMS Performance Evaluation
a. Control of Monitoring and Measuring Devices
b. Monitoring and Measurement of Customer Satisfaction
c. Internal Audit
d. Monitoring and Measurement of Processes
e. Monitoring and Measurement of Product and Services
f. Analysis of Data
g. Management Review
10. QMS Improvement
a. QMS Improvement Plan
b. Corrective Action
c. Risk based Preventive Action

A process is a sequence of activities with a definite beginning and end and includeds defined
deliverables

Quality Objectives: Characteristics of Quality Objectives

 Measurable
 Related to your business
 Documented
 Reviewed
 Tracked

Quality Objective documentation should;

1. Tell specifically what is being measured
2. State how the data will be collected
3. Show frequency of the measurement
4. Provide targeted goals
5. State who is responsible for gathering the data

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7. State when they are reviewed

Six Sigma process is one which produces 99.99966% statistically defect free products=3.4 defects per
million opportunities

Six Sigma Methodologies

D – Define the project targets and customer (internal and external deliverables)

M – Measure the process to determine current process performance

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