INTRODUCTION
Quality assurance is a critical part of the quality management package. QA is continuous process that aims to provide the overall guidelines to assure that product meets specified requirements. It will give confidence that a product or facility’s performance will be satisfactory for all clients. Participants in this course will learn quality assurance associated with paving activities, along with the following aspects: quality control, result acceptance, and independent assurance.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
- Enhancing the quality management skills of transportation engineers
- Understanding road construction technology
- Performing the required list of tests on the materials needed for road construction
- Inspecting the executed work according to quality control procedures
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Construction engineers
- Technical engineers
- Project managers
PROGRAM OUTLINE
- Quality Assurance definition
- Quality Assurance components
- Quality characteristics
- Quality management among all parties
- Quality Control definition and procedure
- Standards, Target Value and Variables
- Quality Control Program Planning and Executing
- Objective evidence and tangible result
- Grading.
- Designed and achieved in site density
- Voids ratio.
- Rate of compaction
- Segregation Inspection
- Obvious defects such as cracks, rutting and paver center line
- Smoothness testing
- Acceptance procedure
- End-result specifications and acceptance limitation
- Acceptance type
- Statistical Acceptance Specification
- Rejection and Reduced Payment
- Objection time line and formal request for retesting
- Definition of Independent Assurance
- Parties responsible to perform Quality
- The need of Independent Assurance
- Role of the Third Party
- Dispute resolution
