Quality Control, Inspection and Testing
Planning and proving quality on a building: quality as conformance to the contract documents, quality assurance and control, the cost of quality, quality management systems and the project quality plan, inspection and test plans with hold and witness points, submittals, preinstallation meetings and mock-ups, three-phase control and first-work inspections, concrete, reinforcing and post-tensioning testing under ACI 318, soils, steel, masonry and fireproofing testing, envelope, roof and air leakage testing, special inspections under the International Building Code, nonconformances and corrective action, punch lists, substantial completion and warranties under AIA A201, and quality metrics and culture, following one wood-frame mid-rise from podium to handover.
CON-345 Year 3 3 credits 12 lessons · 4 h 42 min
Offered by HSM University · Construction Management
This is the American version of this course. See the Canadian version.
What you'll learn
- Define quality as conformance to the contract documents, distinguish quality assurance from quality control and grade from quality, and explain the quality roles of the owner, consultants, testing agency, authority and contractor.
- Prepare a project quality plan from a company quality management system and the specifications, including a requirements register, a coverage check and a risk ranking of activities.
- Write inspection and test plans with measurable acceptance criteria and hold, witness, review and surveillance points, and schedule them in the look-ahead with their notice periods.
- Use submittals, preinstallation meetings and mock-ups, including field water testing, to prevent defects before work is repeated.
- Apply three-phase control and first-work inspections, and adjust follow-up sampling according to inspection results.
- Inspect and test concrete, reinforcing and post-tensioning and apply ACI 318 strength acceptance criteria, required average strength and the investigation of low results.
- Plan and interpret compaction, bolting, welding, masonry and sprayed fireproofing tests and coordinate the testing agency.
- Inspect envelope control layers before cover and interpret window water tests, roof and deck tests and multipoint air leakage tests.
- Work with the building official and special inspectors, track special inspections and discrepancies, and prepare for the final report of special inspections.
- Manage nonconformances through control, disposition, correction, verification, root cause analysis, corrective action and back-charges.
- Manage punch lists progressively to closure, explain substantial completion under AIA A201, and describe correction period, warranty and latent defect obligations.
- Measure quality with paired measures, control charts and sampling plans, build a quality culture with the trades, and prepare a quality plan for a new project from lessons learned.
Course content
12 lessons · 4 h 42 min total · final exam
- 1 Quality in construction 23 min · quiz
- 2 Quality management systems and the project quality plan 25 min · quiz
- 3 Inspection and test plans 24 min · quiz
- 4 Submittals, preinstallation meetings and mock-ups 24 min · quiz
- 5 First-work inspections and three-phase control 24 min · quiz
- 6 Concrete and reinforcing testing in the United States 25 min · quiz
- 7 Soils, steel, masonry and fireproofing testing in the United States 23 min · quiz
- 8 Envelope, air barrier and water testing 23 min · quiz
- 9 Special inspections, structural observation and building inspections 22 min · quiz
- 10 Nonconformances and corrective action 23 min · quiz
- 11 Deficiencies, punch lists and warranties in the United States 22 min · quiz
- 12 Capstone: quality metrics, culture and a quality plan 24 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
Planning and proving quality on a building: quality as conformance to the contract documents, quality assurance and control, the cost of quality, quality management systems and the project quality plan, inspection and test plans with hold and witness points, submittals, preinstallation meetings and mock-ups, three-phase control and first-work inspections, concrete, reinforcing and post-tensioning testing under ACI 318, soils, steel, masonry and fireproofing testing, envelope, roof and air leakage testing, special inspections under the International Building Code, nonconformances and corrective action, punch lists, substantial completion and warranties under AIA A201, and quality metrics and culture, following one wood-frame mid-rise from podium to handover.
Part of the Construction Management stream, typically taken in year 3.