QAQC in Construction

The consultant representative or the quality engineer shall select the area to be tested and shall mark on the drawing. There are many ways to determine the compaction of soil but widely being used  Sand Replacement Method ,  which we are using on our site. And before blinding works, you have to make sure that the inspection request is submitted to the consultant and compaction test report is passed. But first, here are the apparatus and equipment for the In-situ density test. Apparatus for In-Situ Density Test 1. Pouring Cylinder 7. Meter 2. Pointed Steel Rod 8. Hammer 3. Large Screw Driver 9. Bent spoon dibber 4. Sand or Silica Container 10. Gloves 5. Glass plate 11. Metal trays, 500mm square, 50mm depth with 200mm dia. hole in the center 6. Sample container (plastic bag or plastic container) Here are the procedure on how to do the  Compaction test  or  In-Situ Density test . 1. Place the metal tray.  The technician can now...

SAMPLE JOB DESCRIPTION (QA/QC Manager) Description The QA/QC Manager is responsible for ensuring that the quality management system (QMS) is fully implemented in an organized and efficient manner. The QA/QC Manager is responsible for delegating and assigning tasks to QA/QC Supervisors and working closely with related engineering, construction, fabrication, and repair departments. Duties and Responsibilities Manage and oversee project quality to ensure compliance to codes, standards, regulations, equipment specific specifications, and QMS requirements. Advancing quality achievement and performance improvement throughout the organization. Managing the development and implementation of the QMS for planning, fabrication, inspection, documentation, and operations activities including: Planning duties within the QA/QC staff and related work schedules; Establishing service standards for end users (i.e., internal department or external customer); Identifying and developing Q...

If you are a Civil Engineer or a Quality Engineer and you are new to the field of construction and guess why? I am writing this because I am going to show you, what are the tests to be applied in the particular activity on your ongoing project. There are various tests needed in different areas of site activities whether it is in infrastructure or building projects. Infrastructure projects like road, embankment, bridge, viaduct, tunnel, dam etc. In the building project, it has common test that normally done which I will show in the foregoing paragraph. So let us proceed with the following different types of test in different areas of your site. On Infrastructure & Road projects When I was in the City Engineering Department in my home country. Our projects there were roads, bridge, school buildings, public market, coliseum, park but most of the projects I attended were roads like 8 kilometers long and the longest is 15 km including drainage and box-culvert. Here are the t...