The Construction Special Interest Group’s (ConSIG) Competency Working Group (CWG) has now completed the development of a training course outline for Construction Quality Professionals. This is to raise the bar in the knowledge, skills and behaviours required for construction quality professionals across the industry.
A Specification for the 2 day course for Quality in Construction and a supporting Construction Project Quality Lifecycle and an ITP visual aid has been developed which covers the following topics:
1) The importance of Quality in Construction
2) Planning:
- Construction Project Life Cycle
- Management planning for construction projects against contractual requirements
- Information Management
- Project Quality Controls
3) Delivery:
- Technical Assurance
- Managing Project Change
- Site Inspection & Surveillance
- Client liaison and handover
This is being made available to approved training providers to develop their course materials and will ensure a properly certified, standard training programme for quality practitioners in the industry.
Background pre-course reading in relation to this course is available here:
https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Inspection_%26_Test_Plan
With regard to further development for Quality Professionals, a pathway has been identified. The TWG have agreed on the CQI preferred courses to be include in a Practitioner Certificate in Construction Quality Management. This includes FD10 Introduction to Risk Management as the next course which is 2 days followed by five x 3 days CQI Practitioner Courses which are:
- PT202 – Managing Process Performance
- PT203 – Managing Management Systems
- PT204 – Managing Change and Continual Improvement
- PT205 – Managing Problem Solving
- PT206 – Managing Supply Chains
To ensure the required standard is achieved, all modules include an exam.
The full Professional Pathway comprises 19 days in total, resulting in a Practitioner Certificate in Construction Quality Management which can lead to Chartered Membership of the CQI, dependent on evidence of experience.
Karen McDonald, TWG Chair, said: “This has been a fantastic opportunity to bring quality professionals and industry experts together to develop a much-needed course for the construction industry. The group initially started with researching the various quality roles and undertook a significant piece of work to research what we want construction professionals to do by understanding specific gaps that exist and identifying the training needs.”
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(Front) George Georgiev.
The following Quality Professionals and Specialists have been involved in the ConSIG TWG Construction Quality Professionals Training Development Group since the group started in September 2018:
- Karen McDonald – Skanska UK (TWG Chair)
- Mike Buss – Taylor Woodrow (Competency Working Group Chair)
- Debbie John – CQI (Head of Learning and Development)
- Nina Abbassi – Abbassi Ltd
- Gavin Avery – BAM Nuttall
- Susannah Clark – PMI
- Rachel Cooper – Skanska UK
- Mike Debenham – Business Process Improvement Unlimited
- George Georgiev – Carey’s Group
- Paul Greenwood – Greenwood Consultants Ltd
- Hussain Ali – Jacobs-Thames Tideway Project
- Anna Ibraeva – Mace
- Eric Loh – Murphy Group
- Paul Marsden – BAM Nuttall
- Jonny Montgomery – Shirley Parsons
- Kevin Rogers – Mott MacDonald.
Following the completion of the development of the training course the TWG have also completed a lessons learnt exercise.
Further information can be obtained by emailing cqiconsig@gmail.com.
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Karen McDonald, ConSIG CWG Deputy Chair
24th October, 2019