Author of Quality Tools for Managing Construction Projects

Abdul Razzak Rumane, Ph.D., is an authorized advisor engineer in electrical engineering. He obtained a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) diploma from Marathwada College (now Dr.  Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada College) India in 1972 and obtained his Ph.D. from Kennedy Western College (now Warren Nationwide College) in 2005.

His dissertation subject was “Quality Engineering Purposes in Construction Projects.” Dr. Rumane’s skilled profession exceeds forty years together with ten years in manufacturing industries and about thirty years in building initiatives.

Presently, he’s related to Dar Alkuwait Alkhaleejia Session and Coaching, Kuwait, as  Director, Construction Quality Administration.

Dr. Rumane is related to quite a lot of skilled organizations. He’s a chartered fellow and Registered Senior Marketing consultant of the Chartered Quality Institute (UK), a fellow of the Establishment of Engineers (India), and has an honorary fellowship of the Chartered Administration Affiliation (Hong Kong).

He’s additionally a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA), a senior member of American Society for Quality, a member of Kuwait Society of Engineers, a member of SAVE Worldwide (The Worth Society), and is an authorized AVS (Affiliate Worth Specialist), and member of Mission Administration Institute.

He’s additionally an affiliate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a member of the London Diplomatic Academy, a member of the Worldwide Diplomatic Academy, and a member of the board of governors of the Worldwide Benevolent Analysis Discussion board.

As an achieved engineer, Dr. Rumane has been awarded an honorary doctorate in engineering from Yorker Worldwide College. Albert Schweitzer Worldwide Basis honored him with a gold medal for his “Excellent contribution within the area {of electrical} engineering/ consultancy in building initiatives in Kuwait.”

The European Academy of Informatisation honored him with the “World Order of Science– Training–Tradition” and the title of “Cavalier,” and The Sovereign Order of the Knights of Justice, England honored him with its Meritorious Service Medal.

He was chosen as one of many Prime 100 Engineers in 2009 of IBC (Worldwide Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK).

He was additionally the honorary chairman of the Institute of Engineers (India), Kuwait Chapter, for the years 2005 to 2007. Dr. Rumane is an writer of the ebook titled Quality Administration in Construction Projects printed by CRC Press (a Taylor & Francis Group Firm).

Quality Tools for Managing Construction Projects Contents

Overview of Quality in Construction Projects

• Quality Historical past
•  Construction Projects
• Quality Definition for Construction Projects
• Construction Mission Life Cycle
• Quality Requirements
• Quality Administration System
• Built-in Quality Administration

Quality Tools

• Introduction
• Quality Basic Tools
• Administration and Planning Tools
• Course of Enchancment Tools
• Innovation and Artistic Tools
• Lean Tools
• Value of Quality
• Quality Perform Deployment (QFD)
• Six Sigma
• TRIZ

Quality Tools for Construction Projects

• Introduction 
• Mission Improvement
• Mission Planning
• Mission Monitoring and Management
• Quality Administration
• Threat Administration
• Procurement/Contract Administration
• Security Administration
• Quality Evaluation/Measurement
• Coaching and Improvement
• Buyer Satisfaction

Software of Construction Tools in Construction Projects

• Construction Projects 
• Mission Inception
• Conceptual Design
• Schematic Design
• Design Improvement
• Construction Paperwork
• Bidding/Tendering
• Construction
• Testing, Commissioning, and Handover
• Operation and Upkeep
• Evaluation of Quality

Introduction to Quality Tools for Managing Construction Projects

Quality is a common phenomenon that has been a matter of nice concern all through the recorded historical past of humankind. It has at all times been the intention of the builders and makers of merchandise to make sure that these meet the shopper’s wants.

Construction initiatives have many individuals together with the proprietor, designer, contractor, and lots of different professionals from construction-related industries. Every of those individuals is concerned in implementing high quality in building initiatives.

All of them are each influenced by and depending on one another, along with different gamers concerned within the building course of. Subsequently, building initiatives have develop into extra advanced and technical; in depth efforts are required to cut back rework and prices related to time, supplies, and engineering.

Quality in building initiatives is achieved by the appliance of assorted high quality management ideas, procedures, ideas, strategies, instruments, and strategies, and their functions to varied actions/parts/ subsystems at completely different phases of the life cycle of a building challenge to enhance building course of to conveniently handle the challenge and make them extra qualitative, aggressive, and economical.

Quality instruments and strategies are essential to develop a complete challenge high quality administration system.

The appliance of instruments and strategies in building initiatives has an awesome affect on the cost-effectiveness outcomes of building initiatives and reaching profitable challenge efficiency.

Quality administration instruments and strategies assist in challenge planning, execution, monitoring, and management of a challenge, and evolve a challenge administration system that makes challenge deliverables. They make it attainable to:

• Meet outlined scope
• Full as per schedule
• Full inside funds

Chapter 1 is an summary of high quality in building initiatives. It supplies a short introduction to the standard historical past, a definition of high quality, the delivery of complete high quality, and the definition of high quality in building initiatives. It additionally discusses, in short, the philosophies of “Quality Gurus” and complete high quality administration (TQM).

It consists of details about challenge definition, varieties of building initiatives, completely different phases (conceptual design, schematic design, design improvement, building, testing, commissioning, and handing over) of the development challenge life cycle and the subdivision of every part into numerous components/actions/subsystems having a practical relationship with the higher factor of breakdown construction.

A quick introduction to high quality requirements, high quality administration programs and the event of an Built-in Quality Administration System for the event of a contractor’s high quality management plan can be mentioned on this chapter.

Chapter 2 is about high quality instruments. It provides a short description of assorted varieties of high quality instruments utilized in apply, by the development business, underneath sections equivalent to Basic Tools of Quality, Administration and Planning Tools, Course of Evaluation Tools, Course of Enchancment Tools, Innovation and Creation Tools, Lean Tools, Value of Quality, Quality Perform Deployment, and Six Sigma and TRIZ.

Chapter 3 is about high quality instruments in building initiatives. It particulars various kinds of high quality instruments used for challenge improvement, challenge planning, challenge monitoring and management, high quality administration, danger administration, procurement/contract administration, security administration, high quality evaluation/ measurement, coaching and improvement, and buyer satisfaction.

Chapter 4 is about functions of high quality instruments in building initiatives. It elaborates on the appliance of assorted instruments and strategies for particular and applicable utilization at completely different phases of building initiatives, ranging from initiation of a challenge to testing, commissioning, and handover of the challenge.

This consists of examples of the detailed utility of high quality instruments throughout challenge inception, idea design, schematic design, design improvement, building paperwork, bidding and tendering, building, and testing and handover.

It additionally discusses the appliance of high quality throughout operation and upkeep, in addition to the evaluation of high quality. The appliance of Six Sigma analytic instruments in building initiatives is elaborated within the appendices.

These appendices embrace an instance of every of the next:

• Software of the DMADV software to develop the design for building initiatives
• Software of the DMADV software to develop contactor’s building schedule
• Software of the DMAIC software in building initiatives to develop high quality administration system for concrete structural works

This ebook, I’m sure, will meet the necessities of building professionals, college students, and lecturers and fulfill their wants.

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