Construction Project Quality Management

Description

Construction project quality management is a professional-level training course designed to develop the knowledge and practical skills of construction professionals required to plan, assure, control, inspect, monitor, and continuously improve quality throughout the construction project life cycle. The training course emphasizes the integration of quality planning, quality assurance, quality control, inspection and testing, specifications, standards, documentation, nonconformance management, quality audits, risk-based quality management, and continuous improvement. This training course presents aspects of construction project quality management and it outlines the construction project quality management concepts, principles, and best practices; quality planning, quality assurance, quality control and quality improvement; during planning, design and construction phase; quality tool used at construction projects; inspection of materials, preparation of quality manual check list, principle of total quality management. It also focuses on how to incorporate quality thinking into construction project processes. Further, it examines the link between customer expectations, project scope, and project requirement. In this professional training course, practical applications, case studies and project-based scenarios are included. Topics covered include the following:

• Quality management system
• Quality planning
• Quality assurance
• Quality control
• Quality improvement
• Total quality management
• Inputs, tools and techniques and outputs

Outcomes

Upon the completion of this training course, participants will be able to:

• Differentiate between quality and quality management
• Understand the fundamentals of quality management for construction projects
• Describe quality management processes in construction projects
• Demonstrate knowledge of the practices, principles and processes involved in construction quality management
• Apply quality management best practice in construction in terms of both processes and attitude
• Recognize the differences between quality assurance and quality control
• Elaborate the concept of total quality management

Target audience

The target audience for this training course includes construction project managers, civil engineers, architects, quantity surveyors, contract administrators, planning engineers, project control engineers, consultants, contractors, developers, procurement professionals, and client representatives.