Subscribe to receive new blog articles by email.

Your email:


Construction qa/qc plan templates

USACE Quality Plan Template

iso 9001 quality management plan wh

Posts by popularity

Posts by category



First Time Quality LLC is a BBB Accredited Business. Click for the BBB Business Review of this Building Construction Consultants in Crofton MD

Construction Quality Assurance/Quality Control Blog

Current Articles | RSS Feed RSS Feed

How to Prepare Your Inspection Test Plan

  
  
  
  

Construction Inspection Test Plan Form TemplateAn Inspection Test Plan (ITP) is a commonly required document that you'll need to submit with your construction quality control plan. Whether you're working on a private sector or government contract, clients today all want to see your inspection test plan. They want to know exactly what inspections and tests you'll be forming to control quality on their project.

In addition to telling your client what inspections and tests you'll do to control quality, your ITP is also a checklist for you to log the results of your inspections and tests during the project.

So what should you include on your inspection and test plan anyway?

The following 5 tips will help you to create your inspection and test plans:

1) Before you can start, you'll need an inspection test plan form. Click on this link, and you can download one free from our website: Inspection Test Plan Form.

2) Complete the form by, first, adding your task inspections. List a task inspection for each Definable Feature of Work (DFOW), also known as a construction task or a phase of work.

3) Now, add your milestone inspections. These are inspections at the completion of each major piece of work. For example, this could be at the completion of a foundation or each floor in a high-rise.

4) Next, look at your project specification, and add the required inspections and tests from it.

  • DO include tests that you hire an independent testing agency to perform.
  • DO include inspection hold points.
  • DO NOT include inspections conducted by your client, as that is their own quality control, not yours.

5) Finally look in the Division 01 General Requirements section of your specification for any special inspections to add to your inspection test plan. These could be such things as field assessments and final closeout inspections.

Inspection Test Plan ExampleClick the image on the left to see the first page of a completed Inspection Test Plan.

Once you have a good template and know what to include, putting together an inspection test plan becomes very straightforward.

Need a complete Inspection and Test Plan?

We have Construction Inspection and Test Plan Templates complete with trade-specific inspection forms as well as a library of completed ITP forms for you to use.

Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Comments

I like your ITP template. One thing I want to ask is that my company could have 50 templates and they are reusable, but they also need updating frequently. Do we need click each template and update manually or is there any more efficient way to do it? Thanks.
Posted @ Thursday, August 05, 2010 9:06 AM by Lei Tian
All of our templates come in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format. If you assemble all of your templates in one file, you can do a search and replace to automate the updating. There is also document assembly software that can help if the search and replace function is too tedious.
Posted @ Thursday, August 05, 2010 9:54 AM by Ed Caldeira
What if I want to delete or insert one row but not just replace the wording?
Posted @ Thursday, August 05, 2010 10:39 AM by Lei Tian
If you give me an example of what you would be changing and how often you would need to make these changes, I can try to come up with a workable solution. I make changes to large documents all the time, and have come up with automated ways of doing this.
Posted @ Thursday, August 05, 2010 10:49 AM by Ed Caldeira
For example, I have one template named Temp1.doc, and it has many sections like 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2...2.10...5.1..., and also have another template named Temp2.doc which also has many sections. Now I want to add one column in Temp1 between section 2.8 and 2.9, and add the same column to Temp2 but between section 3.5 and 3.6. And there could be over 50 templates needs to add the same column but may be between different sections. Given this, the section #'s in each template and template revisions also need to be changed. If we did this manually, you can imagine how much work it is. Thanks.
Posted @ Thursday, August 05, 2010 11:18 AM by Lei Tian
You might want to look into some document assembly software. I'm not the expert in that area; however, I set my documents up using styles and can easily go from section to section making changes. The formatting readjusts the section #'s.
Posted @ Thursday, August 05, 2010 12:29 PM by Ed Caldeira
We use your products now. 
 
 
 
 
 
TS
Posted @ Monday, August 23, 2010 10:58 AM by Thomas Schoenecker
i need to prepar itp for piping job start from material insp through final hydrotesting followed by service testing.pls help me to make an itp
Posted @ Wednesday, October 06, 2010 11:03 PM by LOGAN
Try to follow the steps I've outlined in the blog article. Let me know where you get stuck and I can provide some additional assistance.
Posted @ Thursday, October 07, 2010 6:42 AM by Ed Caldeira
Please anyone give me the qa/qc interview questions
Posted @ Monday, January 24, 2011 9:28 PM by RAJA
i need to prepared itp for pipeline,beach spool from job start. please advise and give some goods tips. Please help to make it perfectly..
Posted @ Saturday, March 12, 2011 2:52 AM by mohd saiful hizam b. bahran
i need inspection and test plan asphalt for prepare my project at tanjung tabalong..pls help me to make itp asphalt
Posted @ Thursday, June 23, 2011 7:23 PM by andi setiawan
I am preparing an ITP for submarine pipeline. I have sample bearing say "W" for witness, "H" for hold, etc. What is hold actually means?
Posted @ Friday, June 24, 2011 12:37 AM by dbviray
"Witness" means that the client representative must be present to observe your performance of the inspection or test. 
"Hold" means that the you will stop work at the prescribed milestone so that the client representative can perform an inspection or test.
Posted @ Wednesday, June 29, 2011 10:21 AM by Ed Caldeira
Many thanks for the information, but I still need to ask one thing before I can start my ITP. I was given a template which bore a triangle figures opposite the works items, what does the triangle denotes in QA/QC parlance?
Posted @ Thursday, June 30, 2011 12:15 AM by dbviray
I WANT TO MAKE ITP FOR CONSTRUCTION 
SITE CAN YOU HELP ME PLEASE
Posted @ Wednesday, August 10, 2011 10:54 AM by Amuthan
We now sell a complete Inspection and Test Plan Template to help you with your construction site ITP. For more information, Go to http://www.firsttimequality.com/inspection-test-plan-form/
Posted @ Thursday, August 11, 2011 8:39 AM by Ed Caldeira
any one can provide the ITP'S for construction activities 
 
Posted @ Saturday, November 05, 2011 8:32 AM by iniyan
Realy help full for begginers
Posted @ Monday, December 05, 2011 4:47 AM by sathiyarthan
Post Comment
Name
 *
Email
 *
Website (optional)
Comment
 *

Allowed tags: <a> link, <b> bold, <i> italics