Construction Quality Control Manual for Concrete Trade - BSBPMG505A

This document is a comprehensive construction quality control manual designed for a concrete trade project at the Blue Mountains TAFE. It begins with an introduction highlighting the importance of quality control in construction and provides project details, including the client, architect, and job title. The manual outlines the project control synchronization meeting, which involves key personnel to discuss strategies for ensuring quality outcomes. It then details quality control plans, revisions, and related concrete construction processes, referencing corporate management framework documents and international standards like ISO 9000 and ISO 9001. The manual thoroughly covers construction procedures, including material selection, mixing processes, formwork construction, and the use of high-quality materials such as limestone and steel reinforcement. It also emphasizes safety measures and regulations, ensuring the use of personal protective equipment and environmental protection. The document includes procedures for concrete testing, quality control, and compliance sheets. References are provided for further study.

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Institution Affiliation
Name of Student
Due Date

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Contents
Construction Quality Control Manual............................................................................................ 2
Introduction................................................................................................................................... 2
Project Startup and Quality Control Coordination Meeting...........................................................3
Quality Control Plans.................................................................................................................... 4
Revision of work........................................................................................................................... 4
Related Concrete construction Processes (Hoyle, 2017)..............................................................5
Related Corporate Management Framework (CMF) Documents.................................................5
Related International Standards (Hoyle, 2017)..............................................................................7
Construction procedures.............................................................................................................. 7
Safety measures and regulations................................................................................................. 9
Quality standards....................................................................................................................... 10
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................. 10
Reference................................................................................................................................... 11

Construction Quality Control Manual
Construction Quality Control Manual
Introduction
Perumal Pedavoli Architects is committed to providing exemplary construction services to its
clients by ensuring that every contract operation is engaged in there is well-prepared quality
control manual to guide various construction processes. Different variations in construction and
manufacturing and almost all engineering processes often pose serious quality, technical and
commercial implications to organizational reputation if not adequately controlled and monitored
in a standardized manner. Bottleneck completion in the construction industry to some extent
forces construction firms to be more careful about the quality of construction works they
undertake since it’s what shall sell or soil the company’s reputation. This is to present quality
construction assurance to our client, New South Wales Institution, in the construction of beauty
therapy classrooms and offices that will expand its enrolling capacity and staff comfortability as
they discharge their duties. Our company employs the use of strategically planned and series of
systematic activities that are implemented in the quality system to ensure that necessary quality
requirements for the structure are well fulfilled.

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Project details
19735 Project 4 Blue Mountains TAFE
Job Address: WSI Blue Mountains College, Parke St, Blue Mountains, NSW
Job Title: New facility for Beauty Therapy and Complementary Health Classrooms and Offices
Client: NSW Department of Commerce
Architect: Perumal Pedavoli Architects, Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW
Project Control Synchronization Meeting
After finalizing on the documentation on the contract papers, Perumal Pedavoli Architects
Construction Company shall hold its first meeting with its employees to discuss and deliberate
on the plans and strategies that could be used in the construction process to ensure that New
South Wales institute get classroom extensions and offices as required by the institution
management. The project manager shall take charge of the meeting leading the discussion on
how best coordination of concrete preparation shall be handling for the entire process (Wu et al.,
2016). Key personnel from Perumal Pedavoli Architects, subcontractors and suppliers shall meet
thereafter to have an explicit review of the significant prospects for the project quality outcomes
as well as quality guarantee and eminence control procedures and construction ISO standards.
Including ISO 9000:2006 that quantifies the procedures and fundamentals quality management
systems, ISO 900-1:2008 guiding principles in construction quality management, ISO 1007-
2003, ISO 1006-2013, ISO 10013-2003 outlining the documentation procedures of making
quality control management.

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It is at the core interest of our company to provide standard construction works. It through
qualified staffs’ and adequate paraphernalia meeting the set standards in the national construction
department that holds a company’s construction guide to conduct superiority testing which
performs the selection, testing and approval in line with regularity chart for Portland cement
actual concrete for quality control and quality guarantee schemes as listed in the companies
manual (Isaia et al. 2016). Calibration and relate with processes of testing the equipment with
other prescribed procedures that conducts testing on conformance with specified testing
measures as registered in the subdivision’s building guidebook. As a least, the construction work
should meet the bare set minimum qualifications on the calibration schedule ass outlined in the
concrete material test equipment manual (Nelson et al. 2017).
Quality Control Plans
This represents the contractors’ approved certifications by the ACI or a state-approved
correspondent for the suitable test methods. This will ensure that only qualified technicians,
experts and engineers are charged with the construction of the proposed classrooms and offices
(Moon, Zekavat & Bernold, 2017).
Revision of work
The following table lists the four most current amendments to this document. Specifics of all
changes prior to these are apprehended on folder by the dispensing department.
Form No. Period Writer Checked Scope / Comments
1.0 Sep. 09 UEQ UEOD First Issue

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2.0 Aug. 14 UEQ UEOD Format revised, Quality Road
Map added, FELT Review
Comments incorporated.
Related Concrete construction Processes (Hoyle, 2017)
Code Construction processes
ORP Opportunity Realization Process
Associated Corporate Organization Framework (AMF) Booklets
The correlated CMF Booklets can be reclaimed from the company’s website (Pacheco et al.
2019).
Doc. ID Document Title
Policy
PL-15 Quality Management Policy
Code of operation
CP-110 Scheme Engineering Code of operation
CP-113 Maintenance & Integrity Administration Code of Practice
CP-185 Enrollment Code of Practice

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CP-131 Risk & Opportunity Management
CP-129 Contracting and Procurement – CoP
CP-142 Audits and Reviews Code of Practice
Specification
SR-2064 Engineering and Operations Technical Authority System
SR-1121 Description for Project Quality Strategy
SR-1176 Description for Quality Management System for Artifact and
Service
SR-2066 Document Management for Projects

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Procedure
PR-1247 Project Management of Change Procedure
PR-1029 Competency Assessment and Assurance
PR-1568 Corporate Document Management Procedure
PR-1233 Contract & Procurement Procedure
PR-1866 Quality Audit Procedure
PR-2052 Project Quality Management system Review
PR-2053 Control of Non-Conforming Product Procedure
PR-2066 Managing Deviations from Standards and Procedures
Guideline
GU-611 PDO Guide to Engineering Standards and Procedures
GU-711 Model Project Quality Plan
Related International Standards (Hoyle, 2017)
ISO9000 Quality Management System – Fundamentals and Vocabulary
ISO9001 Quality Management System – Requirements
ISO9004 Managing for the sustained success of an organization —
A quality management approach
ISO10005 Quality Management Systems – Guidelines for Quality Plans
ISO10006 Quality Management Systems – Guidelines for quality management in
projects
ISO10015 Quality Management – Guidelines for Training
ISO19011 Guidelines for Auditing Management Systems

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ISO/TS
29001
Quality Management Systems – necessities for the plan, development,
construction, installation, and provision of products for the petroleum
and natural gas industries
ISO/TR
10013
Guideline for quality organization system credentials
Construction procedures
The construction process shall commence after all the necessary supplies related to concrete
construction have been supplied to the site by our material suppliers.
Concrete shall be used to construct basement foundations, pillars, columns, subfloors, stairs, and
upper floors of the first floor and second floor.
Quality is our main concern. Thus, cement and gravels for mixing of concrete shall be of high
standards since concrete has embodied energy that comes from its extraction , mixing process
and its transportation to site (Ménard et al. 2019). The method of mixing shall be closely
monitored to ensure that there are no waste materials such as granulated grounded blast furnace
slag, fuel ash into the produced concrete. These waste materials affect the long term strength of
concrete when used to construct any structure. The process shall be conservative of the
environment around NWS by ensuring that ally concretes well recycled without material
variability and content moisture that could make them unviable (Casolani, Liberatore & Psomas,
2018).

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Construction of formworks and concrete shall be the second operation after ensuring that all the
materials needed in the concrete making are available at the construction site. Formworks and
set-ups are the molds that are erected and some constructed temporarily to provide the shape or
form in which ready mixed concrete is poured into (Babu et al. 2018).
For the footings and basement construction, we shall use metal to erect formworks for the
concrete pouring since the steal metals used to reinforce concrete are heavy thus when timber is
used, and they would not provide sufficient strength required to support the mortar as it dries up.
To cut in the cost, stay in-shape, reusable and temporary formworks shall be used most so when
supporting vertical frameworks while a wits concrete to cure. We have self –climbing forms, one
of the most innovative and sustainable types of formwork systems used in construction industry
.considering the mechanical plan layout of the building, and then the construction team shall
provide a well-determined strength analysis, obtained through considering the crushing force of
concrete and measured in pounds per square meter or kilogram per meter. Tensile strength of
concrete will be improved by adding metal rods mesh, cables and wires in areas where high
tensile stress shall be exerted such as on pillars, frames and corner walls.
Concrete used to construct commercial buildings such schools and offices should be of excellent
course materials that are appropriately bonded together by Portland cement to form thick and
compact mortar, from the supplied materials, is limestone. Limestone of 4-inch piece shall be
used in making of concrete made from industrial grade companies using a mechanical crusher to
have the excellent course material, and the supplier shall be Portland cement from the nearby
hardware store. Then limestone shall be placed in the kiln, and limestone shall be heated for

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approximately 3 hours at 1500 degrees Celsius. The kiln temperature shall be detected by a
thermometer (Castelli, Vanneschi & Silva, 2017).
Then there shall be mixing, of course, all-purpose prepare sand with cement in the recommended
ratio, that is, two capacity of aggregated stones to one capacity of measure of sand than cement
on top in the proportion of one to one with sand. The mixing process is made easy by the use of a
mechanized concrete mixer. Then add one portion of cement to every four parts of gravel and the
cement shall enhance the mixing of the two to make strong ad thick mortar. For the construction
of the basement, the mortar must be adhesive enough to assure adequate strength required for
structural support (Kannan et al. 2017). To prevent groundwater penetration into the walls, there
shall be the use of waterproof lime or cement in making the basement slab. And for the walls and
pillar, tar will be added to the mixture to make it firmly stick to the reinforced steel frames for
adequate support.
According to the architectural plan, we shall use high gauge quality steel rods for the
reinforcement of the footings, foundations, pillars and the floor slab to ensure that the strength of
the building can sustain the up to some allowance the maximum calculated stress and tolerance
when fully occupied. The cartage of the steel metal rods to site shall be done by the company’s
construction coordinator and he shall ensure that they are kept at a safe place and in a good
condition to avoid any damage or injury that might be caused by the metals.
After mixing of gravels, sand and cement to produce concrete, material test officer shall conduct
the test on the already formed concrete to verify the strength and various properties of concrete
as per the initial calculations, hence ensuring that the used concrete if of the required strength
and mixing ratio. We shall apply different pouring techniques depending on the region to be

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poured, for instance, concreting basements we shall use the tractor concrete mixer to deliver the
concrete through its delivery funnel into the tunnels and the erected formworks, ground floor
slab is considered to be lateral thus for purpose of time conscience shall be poured directly from
the mixer as spreading done workers (Razaqpur et al. 2015).
Quality control officer shall conduct tests of the completed areas to verify compliance condition
of the concreted sections. There shall be a well outlined compliance sheet for cross checking ad
noting comments on each region
Safety measures and regulations
We value the safety of our employees, clients, environment, and any other individual that shall
be present at the work station at any time. Security implies eve to the quality of materials used
and the quality of construction work provided (Razaqpur et al. 2015). Hence we shall ensure that
only genuine materials are purchased for construction and only from authorized dealers to avoid
the use of counterfeit substandard material that would lead to the construction of substandard
buildings.
Every contractor, subcontractor, and every technician shall at all times be in personal protective
equipment PPE, such as helmet, overalls, gumboots etc. environment safety is our concern and
we shall have a temporary folding that protects the site and the adjacent surroundings. Concrete
shall be mixed in a confined place to avoid the emission of cement fumes to the environment
causing pollution (Savino, Brun & Xiang, 2017).