Project Owner’s Quality Management System – A case study of Estella Residential Development Building Construction Project

In recent years, generally, in construction industry, it is recognized that the construction sector has made a great contribution to national development as investment has been intensified in many fields such as infrastructure development, industry and public projects. However, more attention should be given to quality management because of the poor quality of some construction projects.

To enhance the quality control of construction projects, the Ministry of Construction (MOC) held a seminar on April 28, 2009 which the main concern to ensure the quality of construction projects, especially for large-scale national projects. While most projects have operated on a safe and cost-effective basis, there remain shortcomings in terms of quality at different levels due to international and external causes. Because of these reasons, the development of quality management system is most important not only for Contractors, Quality Consultants, but for the investors or developers as well.

Mr. Tran Hong Quan made a study which primary objective was to study the application of Quality Management System (QMS) of Project Owner in a construction project from design to construction phase.

Conclusions

In general, most of the requirements of quality system have been covered and presented in the existing system. However, the discovered problems that related in missing contract review, improper developed coordination and communication, lack of the process control, control of quality records and the inspection status monitoring during the course of work are the reasons that caused major problems to owner such as schedule delay and generating V.O.

In addition, it was found out that there was inconsistency in decision relating to quality on job site caused rework and schedule delay.

Obviously, besides the reason of work procedures, it would be the reasons of different quality level and quality perception. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct the internal quality audit and provide training at different position in order to gain the same level of quality perception in the project team.

Through the discussion and findings of this study, the causes and the consequences that generated by these missing processes can be summarized in the table below:



To summarize, refer to the study, in order to obtain a complete QMS, the missing requirements as previous mentioned should be added in the existing Quality Management System for fulfillment. More than that, the quality culture in organization should be formed up so that the Company can reach to the Total Quality Management.

His thesis abstract is copied and posted.
Abstract

The report expresses the key issues in Quality Management System (QMS) that known as the critical factor for any organization wants to develop and survive in the free trade market.

This study, which refers to the theories and the standards system, has expressed the concept of quality in construction, the QMS in organization, system requirements for owner’s QMS in construction and its benefits. The study has briefed the factors that most effect to project quality studied from public reports and the key points to control project quality from the design to construction stage. The report has introduced a QMS to the property developer for the purpose of amendment to the existing QMS in order to obtain a complete QMS for better managing project quality.

The next part of this report is the case study on the Estella J.V organization that established to run and deliver the Estella Residential Development project, an international project of the Keppel Land Co. Ltd. Through this case study, the findings on the existing QMS and the application from the previous part to this existing QMS for improvement will be the foundation QMS for toward Keppel Land’ projects. This is also the objective of this study.