Construction Quality Assurance/Quality Control Blog

7 Steps for Managing Construction Quality Nonconformances

Posted by Ed Caldeira

Whether you’re dealing with difficult or simple nonconformances, your construction quality control plan should outline a systematic process to manage them. That way, you’ll consistently deliver quality results. And, your customers will have confidence that you tightly control specification deviations until you can find suitable resolutions.

In quality assurance circles, we don’t use the term nonconformance for all defects. Instead, we reserve the term for defects that you can’t quickly or cost effectively fix to meet your project’s quality standards.

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The Difference between a Nonconformance and a Punch List Item

Posted by Ed Caldeira

When construction inspections find defects, should they be handled simply as punch list items that need to be corrected (but need no special record keeping), or should they be managed as construction nonconformances that include the extra procedures and record keeping? The following guidelines will help you decide and should keep your quality record keeping as simple as possible.

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