When you will enter to a quality assurance and quality control world and it’s your first time to start work on a project site. You might ask this “What is the first thing that I would check?” There are several things that you will check, but the material upon arrival on site is one of the important that you should be checking along the way.
You could ask the Inspection and Test Plan for a certain work in which the material that you would like to check belongs to. So you can identify what would be your next action.
Once you obtained the material approval report or MAR for the certain material. You are now ready to check the material arrived on site. Now! This might be your question “What if the material arrived is not yet approved, what will I do?” Here is what you will do and in case that the material is being reviewed by consultant and it’s eventually be approved later then you may still submit the material inspection with comment as “awaiting approval.”
Here are the steps to follow to checking the materials on your site at the first time.
1. Obtain Delivery Note
Always ask your storekeeper for the arrived material on site and collect the delivery note of that. Just make a routine every morning or every other day on this task, especially if the project has just started. It is expected that there will be volumes of materials that will be arriving.
This should be your initiative as a quality assurance and quality control engineer, be proactive on this task.
In case you are handling subcontractor, then request them to submit their material inspection and ask them the delivery note, approved material submittal, packing list and mill test certificate whenever required.
2. Fill the Material Inspection Form
Fill up the material inspection form with the description of items from the delivery note. Just make sure that all spaces provided from the material inspection form are filled up.
3. Attachment for the Material Inspection
The first attachment is the Material Approval Report (MAR) or approved material submittal. The delivery note is the second attachment of your material inspection. And attach the packing list whenever required.
If your material is related to steel structural works, you should attach the “Mill Test Certificate” of such material.
4. Joint Inspection With The Consultant
If you have completed the arrangement of your material inspection and compiled everything needed. So you are now going to bring the consultant for a joint inspection of your material on site. Just make sure that the materials that you are going to present with the consultant are accessible and stored in a storage yard nearby on your project site.
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I need basic knowlege about material QC inspection. Please can you help for me to pass an interview in the related QC material inspection.
It’s helpful to know that a consultant would also be need to be present for a construction inspection. My uncle is planning to have a huge garage built next year in preparation for a new bike shop business he will be opening. Making sure that the construction goes well requires proper inspection for sure.
Hi Mr. Noel Mades,
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I work in consultancy here in dubai as QAQC Engineer but im a newbie.. I am A Civil Engineer by Profession and work as a Quantity Surveyor for 8 years, now i have a new position as a QAQC Engineer, can u give me some idea what is the procedure,chart that the main con or sub-con needs to prepare or do u have any books suites for me? your blog is very helpful
Thank you..
1) Who makes Method Statement?
2 ) Who submits Method Statement to QC Department?
Answer no.1: The Quality Assurance Engineer should develop a method statement.
Answer no.2: A Method Statement once prepared, the QA shall hand it to the Document Controller and he will submit it to the Consultant. If you are in the subcontractor side, you shall submit it to the QA or QAQC of the main contractor for checking.
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Can you explain about MAR?
That is also called material submittal which we always submit to the engineer attaching all the necessary related documents of the material for approval.
Who will submit the MA Report to QC Engineer ?
It is the QAQC Engineer of subcontractor to the QAQC Engineer of main contractor or main contractor to consultant.
I would like to add.. ” to assure proper storage, handling and safe delivery to the point of execution
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You have a point but mostly it should be mentioned in the method statement.
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