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"The level of quality of a civil work (or part of it) can be measured by the degree of
fulfilment of its construction specification and standards with in time.
Construction is one time activity. It affords no second chance of modification, repair or
rejection once the construction work is completed.
With the increase in complexity and the size of construction operations, the responsibility for
ensuring quality has gradually shifted from worker to supervisor of inspection and later to the
quality control department.
It is well known fact that the quality cannot be constructed. It has to be designed in to a
project system. QMS therefore starts from the design stage itself.
QMS is the responsibility of the project authority. The owner or his representative formulates
the policy, determines the scope of the quality planning & management.
SPECIFICATION:
The standards and specifications for concrete and various ingredients are universally
standardized and they are required to be in conformity with same. Indian Standards IS for
concrete and its basic ingredients viz cement aggregate coarse and fine, water admixtures and
various of concreting, its placement and final acceptance should be as per IS specification.
Concrete Making:
Raw material for concrete is Cement, Aggregate & Water. Now all the standards and
specifications for making of a particular concrete are according to ASTM or BS or IS.Testing
is to be done at each level for quality control i.e. in the following order:
Cement test:
Setting time
Soundness
Strength
Fineness and grading
Chemical composition
Specific Gravity
Heat evolution
Water retention
False set
Adulteration
Aggregate test:
Photographic Examination
Grading & surface area
Bulk unit weight
Specific gravity
Absorption and surface moisture
Chemical stability
Resistance to freeze and thaw
Abrasion resistance
Crushing
Impact value
Sampling aggregate
Water test ( for impurities):
Organic
Inorganic
Sulphates
Chlorides
Suspended matter
Hydrogen ion concentration
Seawater
sugar
Concrete testing
The following European standard test methods for concrete have already been published as
BS ENs:-
BS EN 12350 Testing fresh concrete
Part 1 : Sampling
Part 2 : Slump test
Part 3 : Vebe test
Part 4 : Degree of compactability
Part 5 : Flow table test
Part 6 : Density
Part 7 : Air content – Pressure methods
SQC:
Statistical Quality Control is based on data calculated with all the specifications so that to get
the relevant workers either skilled in different works or unskilled to transfer the load etc. This
in return would give quality in the project.
Conclusion
Civil engineering projects and construction companies have begun to attract the attention of
social scientist and management experts. Social scientist argue that it takes more than just
SQC and technical skills to produce quality. It requires the restructuring of the project
organization the way they think, work and interact. Management expert suggests that quality
monitoring evaluation and management information systems should be built in to the
construction process at all stages from design to execution.