Lecture 7-Construction Project Quality Management

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LECTURE 8.

CONSTRUCTION
PROJECT QUALITY
MANAGEMENT

QUALITY MANAGEMENT
is a method for ensuring that
all the activities necessary to
design, develop and
implement a product or
service are effective and
efficient with respect to the
system and its performance

FOUR MAIN COMPONENT OF


CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
QUALITY MANAGEMENT

1) QUALITY
PLANNING

Involves identifying which quality


standards are relevant to the project and
determining how to satisfy them.

FOUR MAIN COMPONENT OF


CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
QUALITY MANAGEMENT

2) QUALITY
ASSURANCE

refers to planned and systematic


production processes that provide
confidence in a product's suitability
for its intended purpose. It is a set of
activities intended to ensure that
products (goods and/or services)
satisfy customer requirements in a
systematic, reliable fashion

FOUR MAIN COMPONENT OF


CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
QUALITY MANAGEMENT

3) QUALITY
CONTROL

In engineering and manufacturing, quality


control and quality engineering are
involved in developing systems to ensure
products or services are designed and
produced to meet or exceed customer
requirements. These systems are often
developed in conjunction with other
business and engineering disciplines using
a cross-functional approach.

FOUR MAIN COMPONENT OF


CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
QUALITY MANAGEMENT
4) QUALITY
IMPROVEMENT

These cover product improvement,


process improvement and people
based improvement.

Quality Concepts
A. Quality. The totality of features and
characteristics of a product or service
that bear on its ability to satisfy or
implied needs.

Quality Concepts
The stated implied needs would therefore have
to be met by the designer and builder. These
include:
For Design
*Aesthetics (good design taste)
*Functionality (design does what it is intended
to; meet building code requirements)
*Safety (safe for occupiers; meet building code
requirements)
* Cost (within clients budget)

Quality Concepts

For Construction
Workmanship (quality of constructed work)
Integrity (according to drawings and

specifications)
Completion time in the project according to

clients requirements

Quality Concepts
Quality Control (QC). The operational
techniques and activities that are used to fulfill
requirements for quality. These are control
techniques and activities to ensure a product or
a service meets specifications.

Quality Concepts
Quality Assurance (QA). All those
planned and systematic actions
necessary to provide adequate
confidence that a product or service
will satisfy given requirements for
quality.

Quality Concepts
Quality Management (QM). That aspect
of the overall management function that
determines and implements the quality
policy. Quality management requires top
management commitment and
involvement.

Quality Concepts

Quality System. The organizational


structure, responsibilities, procedures,
processes and resources for implementing
quality management. The objective of the
quality system is to enable individual
employees to know their contribution and
responsibility.

Quality Concepts

Total Quality Management (TQM). A


management approach of an organization
centered on quality, based on the
participation of all its members and aiming
at long term success through customer
satisfaction, and benefits to the members
of the organization and to society.

Quality Concepts

Continuous Improvement Process (CIP). Is


concept which recognizes that the world is
constantly changing and any process that is
satisfactory today may well be unsatisfactory
tomorrow.

Quality Concepts
Areas of Waste in Projects
1.Waste in rejects of completed work
2.Waste in design flaws
3.Waste in work-in-process
4.Waste in motion for manpower
5.Waste in management
6.Waste in manpower
7.Waste in facilities
8.Waste in expenses.

The Concept of Customer

Meeting customers needs is implicit in the


definition of quality. In essence, the
customer is the immediate recipient of any
output produced.

Major Cost Categories of Quality


a)

Prevention Cost cost to plan and execute a project so


that it will be error free. Some areas of prevention cost
include planning of the scope, budget, performance and
duration to meet customer requirements.
(i Training, ii. Process capabilities studies, iii. Surveys of
vendors/suppliers,
iv. Surveys of
subcontractors)

b)

Appraisal Cost- cost of evaluating the processes and


the output of the process to ensure the product is
error free. ( inspection and testing of products,
maintenance ad test equipment, cost to process and
report inspection data)

Major Cost Categories of Quality


c)

Internal Failure Cost cost incurred to correct an


identified defect before the customer receives the
product. (scrap and rework, inventory costs)

d)

External Failure Cost relates to all errors not


detected and corrected before delivery to the
customer. (warranty cost, product liability)

e)

Measurement and Test Equipment capital cost of


equipment used to perform prevention and appraisal
activities.

Achieving Quality
on Projects

IMPROVING
PRODUCTIVITY

Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle
PLAN
QUALITY PLAN

ACT

DO

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

QUALITY ASSURANCE

CHECK
QUALITY CONTROL

Quality Planning identify which quality standards are relevant


to the project and determining how to satisfy them
1.

Input

Quality Improvement

Quality Policy

Project Description

Standard Regulation

3.

2.

Tools and Techniques

Benefit/Cost Analysis

Benchmarking

Flowcharting

Outputs

Quality Management Plan

Operational Definitions]

Checklist

Quality Assurance - evaluating overall project performance on a


regular basis to provide confidence that the project will
satisfy the relevant quality standards
1.

2.

3.

Input

Quality Management Plan

Results of quality control measurement

Operational Definitions

Tools and Techniques

Quality Planning (Tools and Techniques)

Quality Audits

Outputs

Quality Improvements

Quality Control - monitoring specific project results to


determine if they comply with the relevant quality standards
and identify ways to eliminate causes of unsatisfactory
performance
1.

2.

Input

3. Outputs

Works results

Quality Improvements

Quality Mngt Plan

Acceptance Decisions

Operational Definition

Rework

Checklist

Completed Checklist

Process Adjustments

Tools and Techniques

Inspection

Seven New Quality Control Tools

(Pareto Analysis, Data Tables, Cause-Effect Analysis, Trend Analysis


Histograms, Scatter Diagrams, Control Charts) and other Management
Tools and Techniques

Quality Improvement - includes taking action to increase the


effectiveness and efficiency of the project maintaining and
improving the current standard
1.

Input

2.

3.

Quality Improvement Philosophy and Principles

Tools and Techniques

Suggestion Scheme

5s (Sort, Systematize, Sweep, Sanitize, Self-Discipline)

Work Simplification (Work Measurement & Work Study)

Quality Circle

ISO 9000 (Quality Management System Standards)

Output
Improved Quality Standard

Construction Project Quality Management must address


both the management of the project and the product of
the project. Failure to meet quality requirements in either
dimension can have serious negative consequence for any
or all of the project stakeholders

Why Quality Assurance?

Why Quality Control?

Why Quality Assurance?

A good quality assurance system in the


construction will:

Identify objectives and standards


Be multifunctional and prevention
oriented

Plan for collection and use data in a


cycle of continuous improvement
Plan for the establishment of and
maintenance of performance measure

Why Quality Control?

It is a process of diagnosis and cure. As the


facility is erected and commissioned it is
checked against the specification to ensure that
it is of the required standard, and any variance
are eliminated. The activities by which this is
done must be (a) planned, (b) tested, ( c)
recorded and, (d) analysed.

Planned: quality control consumes resources, and so


activities must be planned so that those resources are
allowed for in the projects estimated and are available to
conduct the tests at the right time

Tested: it must be known that the method of checking the


specification will highlight variances

Recorded: the results must be recorded to provide a


historical record for planning future projects, and to be able
to analyse trends

Analysed: the results must be analysed to determine the


cause of any variance so it can be eliminated and the
analysis of trends can indicate potential problems before
they occur.

IS CONSTRUCTION
SCHEDULE
IMPORTANT TO
ATTAIN
PRODUCTIVITY IN
CONSTRUCTION?

IMPORTANCE OF QUALITY PROJECT PLANNING AND

SCHEDULING IN CONSTRUCTION
(we are concerned with the
timing

SCHEDULING

PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
CYCLE

aspects, that is, how much


duration to be allocated in
the activity

Project Scheduling
a. Time Estimates
b. Timing Calculations

c. Job Scheduling

The objectives of the Project Quality Management is defined as


an attempt to make the most efficient and effective use of the
resources:
* Money

* Manpower

* Machine/Equipment

* Methods

* Materials
Proper utilization of resources will result a higher productivity,
improve performance and customer satisfaction

OST

PROJECT
QUALITY

ime

MANAGEMENT

uality

References:
Ireland, Lewis, Quality Management for
Projects and Programs. Project Management
Institute; illustrated edition. 2007
Lam Siew Wah, Low Chin Min, and Tengt
Wye Ann, ISO 9000 in Construction,
McGrawHill Book Co., 1994

Rose, Kenneth, Project Quality


Management, Amazon.com, Inc. 2005

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